23 years of WHO Disease Outbreak News reports reveal how global threats posed by disease outbreaks have shifted over time (IMAGE)

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23 years of WHO Disease Outbreak News reports reveal how global threats posed by disease outbreaks have shifted over time

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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.

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Carlson et al., 2023, PLOS Global Public Health, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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