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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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