Science news articles about 'infectious disease outbreaks'

... time surveillance platform that continually aggregates reports on new and ongoing infectious disease outbreaks." These reports are organized and disseminated in a variety of ways, including creating ...

... discussion forums, listservs, and online news outlets be an informative source of information on disease outbreaks? A team of researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School ...

... become better able to dispense life-saving medication following a bioterrorism event or after an infectious disease outbreak," said Henry Willis, the study's lead author and a policy researcher at ...

... human alterations to the environment, such as rapid urbanization, are helping to fuel some infectious diseases outbreaks, says an expert in the eco-epidemiology of infectious diseases. Deforestation ...

Rather than searching for weird weather or enemy missiles, some satellites are helping researchers to track--and predict--the spread of deadly diseases. [More]

... the committee that wrote the report. Species-jumping pathogens have caused more than 65 percent of infectious disease outbreaks in the past six decades, and have racked up more than $200 billion in ...

... of climate change on human health and make better projections about future infectious disease outbreaks," says Naumova. This work builds on Naumova's previous research developing mathematical models ...

... share data and information to enhance rapid response to and management of potentially catastrophic infectious disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies. "DOCS4DOCS is a robust, efficient ...

... tracking the current H1N1 swine flu outbreak. HealthMap, developed by two of the authors – John ... rooms) to search for, track and map infectious disease outbreaks. It first began picking up evidence ...

... devastation during a large-scale infectious disease outbreak, it is widely recognized that advance planning ... influenza pandemic will occur, large scale outbreaks have been reported every 10 to 40 years ...

... the development and testing of computer simulations that will ultimately enable public health officials and policymakers to evaluate intervention strategies to contain infectious disease outbreaks.

... , "countries need to be able to trust each other to be transparent and honest about infectious disease outbreaks. "Reciprocally, countries that do not trust the international community to be fair and ...