The MoH/WHO AFRO Ebola DRC KIVU 2018 Dashboard reports 10 new cases on July 25, making 38 so far this week, 238 in the past 21 days, and 2,630 total. The latest count of deaths (which may be for July 24) is 1,762. Out of 19,300 contacts, 2,800 are going untraced.
Key Sites
- Avian Flu Diary
Reliable, knowledgeable, always in touch. - Bird flu (Google News)
- CBC Health
Canadian news reports - CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The major American health agency. - Chikungunya (Google News)
- China: National Health Commission
- Cholera (Google News)
- CHP Site for Surveillance of Wuhan Pneumonia Cluster
- CIDRAP
The site of record for infectious disease news. - ContagionLive
- Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention
Excellent US blog. - Dengue (Google News)
- Ebola (Google News)
The most and newest updates available. - Ebola (NewsNow)
- Efecto Cocuyo: Salud
Health-related reports on a dissident Venezuelan website. - Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Enhanced surveillance for cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan of Hubei
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Essential. - Eurosurveillance
- Flu in China
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Joint ECDC-WHO/Europe site with weekly updates on influenza. - FluTrackers
Covering infectious diseases since 2006. - Global Health Security Index
Survey of nations' global preparedness and response - Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network
- Goats and Soda: Health
National Public Radio's excellent blog. - Guardian Health
- H5N1 (Google News)
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- Healthnews.Africa
- Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection
- Income inequality and health (Google News)
- Infectious Diseases Hub
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- International Organization for Migration
- The New Humanitarian
Important humanitarian news source. Formerly IRIN. - Lassa fever (Google News)
- Leishmaniasis (Google News)
- MediSys
- Médecins Sans Frontières
- Ministries of Health Worldwide
- Nature News & Comment
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
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- PLOS Medicine
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- ProMED-mail
- ReliefWeb updates
- Reuters Health News
- Saudi Arabia: MOH Command and Control Center
Official MERS data site since May 2018, offering sketchy weekly updates. - Science News
- Shots
NPR's health blog. - STAT
Excellent medical coverage from The Boston Globe. - The Lancet
- The Lancet Global Health
- The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Free registration required. - The Lancet Planetary Health
- The Lancet Public Health
- The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
- The Overdose Report
Coverage of opioids. - Thomson Reuters Climate News
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Dr. Amesh Adalja's blog. - Travel Health Pro
- UN News: Health
- UNHCR Media Centre
- VDU's blog
Dr. Ian Mackay's smart take on events. - Virology Blog
Dr. Vincent Racaniello's blog. - WHO Disease Outbreak News
- WHO Yemen Cholera Dashboard
- World Health Organization
WHO Sites
- Home page, World Health Organization
- Influenza at human-animal interface - Monthly Risk Assessment Summary
WHO reports on new human H5N1 cases. - WHO African Region
- WHO Bulletin
- WHO coronavirus updates
- WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
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- WHO H7N9 page
- WHO Pan American Health Organization
- WHO Confirmed Human Cases of Avian Influenza A(H5N1)
- WHO Disease Outbreak News
- WHO Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response
- WHO South-East Asia Region
- WHO Universal Health Coverage Data Portal
- WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record
- WHO Western Pacific Region
Public Health Agencies & Health Departments
- ASEAN Plus Three Countries: Information Centre on Emerging Infectious Diseases
- BC Centre for Disease Control
- British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
- California Department of Public Health
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Caribbean Public Health Agency
- Center for Public Communication, Secretariat General of the Ministry of Health
In Bahasa Indonesia - Centers for Disease Control (US)
- Centers for Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Welfare Taiwan, ROC
English-language page of the agency's site. - Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Danish Health and Medicines Authority
- Direcção-Geral da Saúde (Portugal)
- European Centre for Disease Control
- Folkhälsomyndigheten (Public Health Agency of Sweden)
Launched January 1, 2014; this is the English page. - Grand Tour
A survey of ten healthcare systems around the world, with links to many others. - India: Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
- Liberia Ministry of Health & Social Welfare
- Ministries of Health Worldwide
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC)
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
English-language Finnish site. - National Institutes of Health
- Offlu: OIE/FAO Network of Expertise on Avian Influenza
- OIE - World Organisation for Animal Health
- Pan American Health Organization Avian Influenza (English, español e português)
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- Qatar Supreme Council of Health
- Robert Koch Institute (Germany)
- Saudia Arabian Ministry of Health
- Uganda Ministry of Health
- World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Avian Influenza portal
Journals and Technical Sources
- Acta Tropica
- BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
- Canadian Medical Association Journal
- CDC
- Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy
Important site for news on antimicrobial resistance and other issues. - Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters
- Chinese Medical Association (English)
- CIDRAP: Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
- CIDRAP: Public Health Practices
- Clinical Infectious Diseases
- CMAJ Open
- Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
- Doctors Without Borders
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- epidemic
Highly useful site at the University of Edinburgh. - Eurosurveillance
- Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance
- Global Health Governance
- Global Viral
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
- ISARIC
International Severe Respiratory Infection Consortium - Journal of Infectious Diseases: Advance articles
- Journal of the American Medical Association
- Malaria Journal
- MalariaWorld
- mBio
- MEDICC Review: International Journal of Cuban Health and Medicine
- PLOS Currents Outbreaks
- PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
- PLOS ONE: H5N1
- PLOS Pathogens
- ProMED-mail
- Public Library of Science
- Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
- The BMJ
- The Lancet
- The Lancet Global Health
- The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Free registration required - The Lancet Respiratory Diseases
- Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
News Gatherers
- ABYZ News Links
Extensive links to news sources worldwide. - BBC News Health
- Bird Flu (NewsNow)
- Cholera (NewsNow)
- CIDRAP: Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
- Dengue (NewsNow)
- Dengue Virus Net
- Encephalitis (NewsNow)
- FluTrackers
A key resource. - Global Polio Eradication Initiative
- H5N1 (NewsNow)
- H7N9 (NewsNow)
- Hand-foot-mouth disease (NewsNow)
- HealthMap: The Disease Daily
- HIV/AIDS (NewsNow)
- Humanosphere
Global health & the fight against poverty - Influenza (NewsNow)
- Influenza Virus Net
- IRIN
- Malaria (NewsNow)
- Marburg fever (NewsNow)
- Measles (NewsNow)
- Medscape Infectious Diseases
Free registration required. - National Travel Health Network and Centre (UK)
- NDM-1 (Google News)
- Nodding syndrome (NewsNow)
- Outbreak News Today
- Pacific Malaria Initiative Support Centre
Malaria news & resources - Poultry Site Avian Flu News
- PoultryMed
Extensive information on poultry diseases and treatments. - ProMED-mail
- Quandl
Remarkable database of worldwide vital statistics. - ReliefWeb
- ReliefWeb Updates
- Risk = Hazard + Outrage: The Peter M. Sandman Risk Communication Website
- Stop the Hunger
Malnutrition and starvation around the world, in real time. - Syria Deeply
Updates on a continuing public-health disaster. - The Conversation: Health & Medicine
Timely articles by academics in their fields of expertise. - Tuberculosis (NewsNow)
- Virology News
Curated by South African virologist Ed Rybicki. - Worldometers
Global health statistics in real time.
Bloggers
- A Time's Memory
Offers highly detailed surveys of news stories and scientific reports. - Avian Flu Diary
Excellent news coverage and even better analysis. - Blog de Medicina Cubana (español)
- Bugbitten
A blog for the parasites and vectors community. - Contagions
- Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention
- Dispatches from Haiti
Dr. John Carroll's extraordinary posts and photos. - Dying in Haiti
A doctor working in Cité Soleil. - E. coli Blog
Surveillance & analysis on E. coli news & outbreaks - Emerging Threats and Infectious Diseases (ETID)
- epidemic
Excellent technical blog on viral diseases. - Global Polio Eradication Initiative
- Grand Tour
Links to healthcare systems and news about them around the world: Canada, the US, the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Singapore, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. - HICprevent
Blog of Hospital Infection Control & Prevention - Infection Control Tips
Promising new site on a key issue. - Kenny Moise
A Haitian physician and public health researcher. - Maia Majumder, Mens et Manus
- Mosquito Research and Management
Excellent blog by Australian researcher Dr. Cameron Webb. - MRSAtopic
- Nigeria Health Watch
- Outbreak News Today
- Scott McPherson's Web Presence
- Shots
National Public Radio health blog - The Incidental Economist
Blog on health services research. - This Day in Water History
Very interesting historical blog. - ViroBlogy
Dr. Ed Rybicki at the University of Cape Town - virology blog
Dr. Vincent Racaniello offers expert comment and analysis in posts that non-experts can understand. - Virology Down Under
Virologist Dr. Ian Mackay's blog
Recent Posts
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- Worldometer: COVID-19 on Friday morning
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Books on Infectious Diseases
David Quammen: Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus
David Quammen: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Jerry Thompson: Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America
A 9.0 quake will be the biggest public health disaster North America has ever faced.John M. Barry: The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Karl Taro Greenfeld: The China Syndrome
How SARS broke out and was hunted down.Marilyn Chase: The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
Ralph R. Frerichs: Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
The best book I know on the subject.Seth Mnookin: The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy
Sonia Shah: The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
Sonia Shah: Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Highly recommended.
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In Portuguese. - Caixin Global
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Remarkable interactive site showing how strategies can flatten the curve (or fail to) - Coronavirus in US and Canada: Real Time Updates
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Frequently updated maps and charts. - COVID-19 Updates: Canada
- ECDC on Novel Coronavirus 2019
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- China: National Health Commission COVID-19 Updates
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Website of the Italian National Federation of the Orders of Doctors, Surgeons, and Dentists. - France24 Coronavirus
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News from the Philippines - Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education
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Free access to research articles and comment. - The COVID Tracking Project
Follows US case counts, nationally and state by state - The Lancet 2019-nCoV Resource Centre
- Vietnam+
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County-level case counts and deaths. - WHO Dashboard on COVID-19
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- Wikipedia on nCoV2019
- Wuhan Coronavirus
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Constantly updated - Worldometer on COVID-19
Essential real-time tally. - Xinhuanet Health
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Ebola
- #Ebola
Very current tweets - 7sur7
- @MSFCongo
In French. - Actualité.cd
In French. - CDC Ebola page
- CMRE RDC
Twitter account of the Comité Multisectoriel de la Riposte à la Maladie à Virus Ebola, the agency fighting the outbreak. - Congocheck
Fact-checks Congolese media. - Digital Congo Health
In French. - DR Congo Ministry of Health
DRC MoH Twitter account - DR Congo Ministry of Public Health Ebola daily updates
In French. Archives of the first year of the 10th outbreak. - Ebola (NewsNow)
Recent news stories. - Ebola DRC KIVU 2018 Dashboard
- Ebola Response DRC
- Habari RDC
Website featuring stories from Congolese bloggers. - Jean-Jacques Muyembe
New head of the DR Congo Ebola response team. - Koma Ebola
News on the outbreak in North and South Kivu and Ituri - La Voix de l'Ituri
Started July 17, 2019. - Media Congo health reports
In French. - MediSys Latest Ebola News
- Provinces 26 RDC Health
- Radio Moto Butembo-Beni
- Radio Okapi
Ebola reports in French. - ReliefWeb: DR Congo
Reports from various sources on humanitarian issues. - Reuters DR Congo
- The Conversation Africa: Health & Medicine
- The Ebola Files
Compendium of articles published in Science over more than a decade. - The Lancet: Ebola Resource Centre
All relevant Lancet articles, freely accessible. - TopCongo FM
- UNICEF Ebola page
- WHO Ebola virus disease
Current updates and general information. - WHO Regional Office for Africa
- WHO: Ebola daily case numbers
- Wikipedia: 2014 West Africa Ebola Outbreak
- Wikipedia: Ebola virus disease
Basic information resource.
Hot Zone Sources
- Ahram Online (Egypt)
- AllAfrica.com: Health and Medicine
- AlterPresse Haiti
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- Cambodia Ministry of Health
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- Cholera (NewsNow)
- Delhi Air Pollution: Realtime Air Quality Index
- Dominican Republic Ministry of Public Health (español)
- Dr. Beat Richner, Kantha Bopha Hospitals, Cambodia
- European Centre for Disease Control
- GARR Haiti (français)
Website dedicated to migration-related issues in Hispaniola. - Hablemos Press
Dissident Cuban news source. - Haiti Libre
Haitian news in English and French. - Haiti on ReliefWeb
Frequent updates on health & humanitarian issues. - Haiti Resilience System
- Haiti: Ministry of Public Health & Population
- Haiti: Ministry of Public Health and Population: Cholera & chikungunya reports
- Haiti: MSPP Facebook page
- Haitian Times
- Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection
- Hong Kong Government News
- Hoy Digital (Dominican Republic)(español)
- Jakarta Globe
- Jakarta Post
- Monitor (Uganda)
- New Vision (Uganda)
- PAHO chikungunya page
- Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia)
- Saigon Giai Phong (Vietnam)
- Shanghai Daily
- Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau
- South China Morning Post
- Times of India
- Tuo Tre News (Vietnam)
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- UNHCR
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Chikungunya, Dengue, Zika Resources
- #chikungunya
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- #Zika
- #zikavirus
- 2015 Zika virus outbreak in Brazil on Wikipedia
- BMJ Zika resource page
Very useful free site, in English with some Portuguese & Spanish links. - Brazilian Ministry of Health website
In Portuguese; readable with Google Translate. - Brazilian Ministry of Health: Zika virus links
In Portuguese; news releases & information on Zika. - CDC on chikungunya
- CDC Zika virus page
- Chikungunya (Google News)
- Chikungunya (NewsNow)
- Chikungunya en Cuba (español)
- Chikungunya Virus Net
Both news and scientific articles. - CIDRAP: Zika Resources & Literature
Absolutely essential. - Colombia: Instituto Nacional de Salud
Important Zika source - Colombian Ministry of Health and Social Protection
- Dengue (NewsNow)
- Dominican Republic Ministry of Public Health
- ECDC Zika virus page
- Elsevier centre de recursos de información sobre el virus del zika (español)
- Elsevier Centro de Recursos sobre Vírus Zika (português)
- Elsevier Zika Virus Resource Center
Free access to news and research. - Pacific Medical Training: Dengue Fever
Concise but thorough one-page overview of dengue. - PAHO chikungunya page
Weekly updates plus technical materials. - PAHO Zika virus page
- PLOS Zika virus collection page
- The Guardian on Zika
Regular updates from a reliable source. - The Lancet Zika virus resource centre
Very useful and frequently updated. - WHO: Zika Open
New research papers. - WikiDoc on Zika virus
- Zika in Texas
Web page on the site of the Texas Department of State Health Services. - Zika Modeling
Projects a range of estimates for spread of Zika and number of microcephaly cases. - Zika no Brasil
Recent news stories; in Portuguese. - Zika on PubMed
Medical & scientific publications, steadily updated. - Zika Open-Research Portal
- Zika virus (Google News)
- Zika virus (NewsNow)
- Zika Virus Net
- Zika virus on Wikipedia
- Zika: Mapping the emerging evidence
Excellent compilation by WHO of research resources.
Avian Flu Resources
- Bird Flu (NewsNow)
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- CIDRAP on avian influenza
- ECDC: Avian influenza in humans
- Iowa Department of Agriculture
- Minnesota Board of Animal Health
- Nebraska Department of Agriculture
- OFFLU.net
- OIE Avian Influenza Portal
- OIE: World Organisation for Animal Health
- The Poultry Site Avian Flu News
- USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service
Latest avian flu updates. - WHO: Avian influenza
- WHO: Confimed human H5N1 cases
- Wikipedia on H5N2
MERS Resources
- #Corona
Arabic-language tweets on MERS; accessible with Google Translate. - #MERS
- Arab News
- CDC MERS page
- CDC: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
- CIDRAP MERS-CoV Resources List
Exhaustive list of links, documents, and literature - ContagionLive
- Coronavirus (NewsNow)
- FluTrackers Korean MERS-CoV Case List
- Infection Prevention and Control - KSA
Extensive list of MERS publications, other resources. - Iranian Ministry of Health (Farsi)
- MERS (Google News)
- MERS (NewsNow)
- MERS (Tersee)
- MERS charts by Maia Majumder
Frequently updated graphic overview. - MERS Live Contingency Tables
Details of all known MERS cases, compiled by Andrew Rambaut. - Qatar Supreme Council of Health
- SABQ.org (Arabic)
Good online news source. - Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health MERS page (Arabic)
- Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health MERS page (English)
- Saudi Arabia: Ministry of Health News
Updates on MERS and other health issues. - Saudi Daily Record: Healthcare
Occasional MERS reports in English. - Saudi Gazette
- Science Magazine MERS reports
Invaluable resource going back to 2012. - The National (United Arab Emirates)
- We Can Stop This
Saudi government blog on MERS. - WHO coronavirus updates
- WHO MERS-CoV page
- Yonhap News Agency (South Korea)
Español
- Argentina: Ministerio de Salud
- Blog de Medicina Cubana
- Boletín Epidemiologico del IPK
Weekly Cuban summary of local and international infectious diseases. - Chile: Ministerio de Salud
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- Honduras: Secretaría de Salud
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Noticias y curiosidades sobre virus, bacterias y microbiología - México: Secretaría de Salud
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- Organización Panamericana de la Salud
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- Prensa Latina
- Prensa Latina (Salud)
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- Venezuela: Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Salud
- Vigilancia en Salud Pública
Cuban public health site.
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About a couple of remarkable Vancouver world-music groups. - Neat Stuff
Serendipitous discoveries around the Web. - On Education
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Blogging the Black pioneers of British Columbia - Sointula
"Place of Harmony"—a remarkable community on BC's central coast. - Write a Novel
An online guide for fiction writers. - Sell Your Nonfiction Book
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Advice and suggestions on how to write and sell short stories and fiction. - Writing for the Web
About the surprising new genres emerging on the Web.