Infectious Disease Outbreaks in History

Global rise in human infectious disease outbreaks.

To characterize the change in frequency of infectious disease outbreaks over time worldwide, we encoded and analysed a novel 33-year dataset (1980-2013) of 12,102 outbreaks of 215 human infectious diseases, comprising more than 44 million cases occuring in 219 nations. We merged these records with ecological characteristics of the causal pathogens to examine global temporal trends in the total ...

Automated Detection of Infectious Disease Outbreaks Diploma

ii Hiermit erkläre ich, dass ich die Diplomarbeit selbstständig angefertigt und nur die angegebenen Quellen verwendet habe. iv Acknowledgement Today, the day has come, I will complete my Diploma thesis. I am deeply grateful for the support of many people who helped me during these last months while I worked on this project. A special thank you to.... ... Michael Höhle for his excellent supervis...

On the predictability of infectious disease outbreaks

Infectious disease outbreaks recapitulate biology: they emerge from the multi-level interaction of hosts, pathogens, and their shared environment. As a result, predicting when, where, and how far diseases will spread requires a complex systems approach to modeling. Recent studies have demonstrated that predicting different components of outbreaks–e.g., the expected number of cases, pace and tem...

Extreme weather events and infectious disease outbreaks

Human-driven climatic changes will fundamentally influence patterns of human health, including infectious disease clusters and epidemics following extreme weather events. Extreme weather events are projected to increase further with the advance of human-driven climate change. Both recent and historical experiences indicate that infectious disease outbreaks very often follow extreme weather even...

Annual Report on Outbreaks of Infectious Disease in Ireland, 2003