Disease outbreaks

Pandemic, epidemic diseases

• Chikungunya
• Cholera
• Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
• Ebola virus disease
• Hendra virus infection
• Influenza (pandemic, seasonal, zoonotic)
• Lassa fever
• Marburg virus disease
• Meningitis
• MERS-CoV
• Monkeypox
• Nipah virus infection
• Plague
• Rift Valley fever
• SARS
• Smallpox
• Tularaemia
• Yellow fever
• Zika virus disease

Public health interventions

WHO/E. Soteras Jalil

• Risk communication and community engagement
• OpenWHO online learning
• Training and learning
• Global emergency vaccine stockpiles
• Clinical management

Networks and initiatives

• Anticipating epidemics
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Battle Against Respiratory Viruses (BRaVe) initiative
• Communicable disease control in humanitarian emergencies
• Emerging and Dangerous Pathogens Laboratory Network (EDPLN)
• Ethics in emergencies
• Global Infection Prevention and Control Network (GIPCN)
• Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS)
• Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework
• SocialNet - A WHO network of trained social scientists
• The WHO Emerging Diseases Clinical Assessment and Response Network (EDCARN)

Disease outbreak news

• Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 – Niger
  30 October 2018
• Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo
  25 October 2018
• Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo
  18 October 2018
• Chikungunya – Sudan
  15 October 2018
• Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo
  11 October 2018

• All outbreak news

Travel advice

• WHO recommendations for international travellers related to the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  15 August 2018
• Health advice for travellers to the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Republic of Korea
  7 February 2018
• Updates on yellow fever vaccination recommendations for international travelers related to the current situation in Brazil
  16 January 2018
• Plague in Madagascar, information for international travellers
  3 October 2017
• Health conditions for travellers to Saudi Arabia for the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj)
  
• Updates on Yellow fever Vaccination recommendation for International Travellers related to current situation in Brazil
  

• Travel advice archive

Managing epidemics

This resource provides concise and up-to-date knowledge on 15 infectious diseases that have the potential to become international threats, and tips on how to respond to each of them.

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