The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER)

The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) serves as an essential instrument for the rapid and accurate dissemination of epidemiological information on cases and outbreaks of diseases under the International Health Regulations and on other communicable diseases of public health importance, including emerging or re-emerging infections.

Note to the readers

The World Health Organization has recently started the migration of all its Web pages towards a new content management system in order to navigate in a smoother and more efficient manner.

The task is however complex, and we are expecting a few more weeks before the full migration of both the website and the archives of the Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) is completed.

We apologize for the inconvenience and the disruption you may encounter. In the meantime, should you need to access specific issues of past WERs please contact us by email () and we will be happy to share the relevant PDF files.

An e-mail subscription service exists, which every week provides by electronic mail the table of contents of the WER, together with other short epidemiological bulletins. To subscribe, send a message to . The subject field should be left blank and the body of the message should contain only the words: subscribe wer-reh. A request for confirmation will be sent in reply.

Many thanks in advance for your understanding and patience.

The WER Team

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