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Following an on-sight assessment by a team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), the National Influenza Laboratory of the Ethiopian Public

Over 200 healthcare workers have been trained with the aim to improve real-time detection and prompt response to disease outbreaks and other health

EWARS is a web-based system and designed to improve disease outbreak detection in emergency settings.

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen some Asian countries employ sophisticated mass-surveillance technologies—normally employed to gather intelligence for domestic security purposes—to contain the spread of infection in their populations. There has also been an intrusion of military and allied national security actors into the traditionally civilian domain of public health, in the

As of 5 August, the EU has successfully co-ordinated 1,000 medical evacuations of Ukrainian patients via its Civil Protection Mechanism to provide them with specialised health care in hospitals across Europe. As the number of wounded people in Ukraine increases day by day, local hospitals are struggling to keep up with the demand. At the […]

A recent editorial published in The Lancet Microbe underscored the ‘One Health’ policy for surveilling emergent infectious diseases.

WorkSafeBC puts out a warning as an incoming heat wave expected to bring peak temperatures to 40 C in some parts of the province this week.

Environment Canada says to expect daytime high temperatures of 31 to 35 C inland and 25 to 29 C near the water.

After a slight reprieve on Thursday, Hamilton and Halton Region will be plunged back into very hot and muggy weather on Friday and Saturday.

Outliers in the number of cases of influenza-like illness (ILI) that tested negative for influenza were present in global influenza surveillance networks early in the COVID-19 pandemic, an average of 13.3 weeks before the first reported COVID-19 peaks in 16 of the 28 countries included in a new study publishing July 19th in PLOS Medicine by Natalie Cobb of University of Washington, US, and colleagues.