image: 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. view more
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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
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.
Journal
PLOS Global Public Health
Article Title
The world health organization’s disease outbreak news: A retrospective database
Article Publication Date
25-Jan-2023
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.