23 years of WHO Disease Outbreak News reports reveal how global threats posed by disease outbreaks have shifted over time
January 25, 2023 
Image Caption: The distribution of outbreaks through time.
(top) Number of reports per year, broken down to highlight the top four diseases, which are reported substantially more often than all others (see Table 1). (bottom) The proportion of total reports of a disease, across years, that occur in a given year, for the top 25 reported diseases in alphabetical order.
Image Credit: Carlson et al., 2023, PLOS Global Public Health, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0001083
Article Title: The world health organization’s disease outbreak news: A retrospective database
Contact: Prof. Rebecca Katz, rebecca.katz@georgetown.edu, Ph.: (202) 251-4925
Image Caption: The distribution of outbreaks through time.
(top) Number of reports per year, broken down to highlight the top four diseases, which are reported substantially more often than all others (see Table 1). (bottom) The proportion of total reports of a disease, across years, that occur in a given year, for the top 25 reported diseases in alphabetical order.
Image Credit: Carlson et al., 2023, PLOS Global Public Health, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Image Link: https://plos.io/3XywpiZ
Author Countries: United Kingdom, USA
Funding: This work was funded by the Open Philanthropy Project to RK. CJC and ALP were additionally supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (Grant G-21-58414). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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