The Internet and the Global Monitoring of Emerging Diseases: Lessons from the First 10 Years of ProMED-mail

Now in its eleventh year, ProMED-mail is a robust and sensitive mechanism for the discovery of emerging disease outbreaks involving humans, animals, and plants around the world and for rapid dissemination of information. Fast reporting translates into quicker arrival of prevention and control assist...

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Published in:Archives of medical research 2005-11, Vol.36 (6), p.724-730
Main Authors: Madoff, Lawrence C., Woodall, John P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Biological warfare
Bioterrorism
Communicable Disease Control - methods
Communicable Disease Control - organization & administration
Communicable Diseases, Emerging - epidemiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging - prevention & control
Disease surveillance
Electronic Mail - organization & administration
Electronic Mail - trends
Emerging diseases
Epidemiology of infectious diseases
Humans
Information Services - organization & administration
Information Services - trends
Internet
Plant Diseases
Plants
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Summary:Now in its eleventh year, ProMED-mail is a robust and sensitive mechanism for the discovery of emerging disease outbreaks involving humans, animals, and plants around the world and for rapid dissemination of information. Fast reporting translates into quicker arrival of prevention and control assistance from other countries, better advance warning to neighboring countries and intending travelers, and other benefits to public health such as heightened awareness of health workers to the threat, time to prepare countermeasures and to react in an appropriate manner rather than a reflex emergency response.
ISSN:0188-4409
1873-5487
DOI:10.1016/j.arcmed.2005.06.005