WHO’s latest news page is about health, but not an outbreak bulletin
The World Health Organization news page in this fact pack surfaces items on hazardous or toxic chemicals, psychological self-help interventions, and diabetes service delivery in the WHO South-East Asia Region. That is useful context for what WHO is publishing, but it is not a specific infectious-disease alert in this packet.
Gobble's Take: If you came for an outbreak headline, this page brought a mixed bag instead.
Source: World Health Organization
Global health news directories still matter when you are sorting signal from noise
A research guide points to several global-health news sources, including Global Health NOW, Think Global Health, Goats and Soda, Exemplar News, IHME News and Events, HealthMap, BBC Monitoring News, PressReader, World Politics Review, and UN News. It also describes HealthMap as bringing together several data sources on current global state of infectious diseases and showing data by disease and location on maps.
Gobble's Take: A good index can be a small sanity tool.
Source: Global Health Information & Resources - Research Guides
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