By: Lauren Goodwin Image courtesy of Flickr Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) held its third emergency session to determine if the novel coronavirus outbreak
Author: Lauren Goodwin
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Image courtesy of Hugo Alexandre via Creative Commons On September 12, 2019, HealthMap was alerted to a press release from the World Health Organization Regional
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Image courtesy of Bob Klannukarn on Flickr On August 19, 2019, the HealthMap system was alerted to unusual pig mortality in the Philippines that was
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Image courtesy of CDC Public Health Image Library The HealthMap system received a media report on August 2, 2019 that announced a tuberculosis outbreak in
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Image courtesy of Steve Rhode on Flickr, CC An article came into the HealthMap system reporting that 52 residents of an assisted living community in
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Image courtesy of Soyuz Chai on Flickr, CC The HealthMap System was alerted to a media report of a food poisoning outbreak on a Imus
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Image courtesy of the CDC Public Health Image Library The HealthMap system was alerted to a media report for suspected anthrax infections in Kisumu, Kenya.
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Image courtesy of Overseas Development Institute on Flickr, CC The HealthMap system was alerted to a media report of Cholera cases in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian
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Image courtesy of Sanofi Pasteur on Flickr, CC On August 14, 2019, the HealthMap system was alerted to a potential cholera outbreak in Mandera, Kenya.
Since the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak that claimed more than 11,000 lives, the mere mention of Ebola hemorrhagic fever is enough to send