EPIDEMIOLOGY ALERT
HEALTHMAP: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA ABOUT FILOVIRUSES OUTBREAKS IN THE WORLD
HealthMap is a medical intelligence website that delivers real-time public health alerts about emerging infectious diseases on a global scale. Created in 2006, it is freely available at the website HealthMap.org and downloadable as a mobile application named “Outbreaks Near Me”.
Filoviruses are causative agents of haemorrhagic fever outbreaks that are temporally and spatially distributed in the Sub-Saharan African regions and in the Philippines, where these pathogens are endemic. Although these outbreaks are very rare, the theoretical possibility of travel-imported cases poses these events among the major public health threats. Here, thanks to the courtesy of its editorial board, you can explore HealthMap from this page of filovir.com website as an iframe of a QuickView, which shows real-time epidemiological data about outbreaks of Ebola and Marburg virus haemorrhagic fever. It is expected that, for the most of time, the world map will remain empty. In case of alert, just click on pins to read details; otherwise, you can check by clicking on the years below to see past events of filoviral infection cases.
July-August 2012: Ebola virus disease in Uganda, WHO
WHO update 03-08-2012; WHO update 10-08-2012; WHO update 14-08-2012; WHO update 17-08-2012 WHO update 04-10-12
August 2012: Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), WHO
WHO update 21-08-2012; WHO update 30-08-2012; WHO update 05-09-2012; WHO update 14-09-2012 WHO update 18-09-12 WHO update 27-09-12 WHO update 08-10-12 WHO update 28-10-2012
October 2012: Marburg virus in Uganda, WHO
WHO update 22-10-2012 WHO update 31-10-2012 WHO update 23-11-12
November 2012: Ebola virus in Uganda, WHO WHO update 23-11-2012 WHO update 30-11-2012
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