ABSTRACT
Now in its eleventh year, ProMED-mail is a robust and sensitive mechanism for the discovery of emerging disease outbreaks involving humans, animals, and plants around the world and for rapid dissemination of information. Fast reporting translates into quicker arrival of prevention and control assistance from other countries, better advance warning to neighboring countries and intending travelers, and other benefits to public health such as heightened awareness of health workers to the threat, time to prepare countermeasures and to react in an appropriate manner rather than a reflex emergency response.
Subject(s)
Communicable Disease Control , Communicable Diseases, Emerging , Electronic Mail , Information Services , Internet , Animals , Communicable Disease Control/methods , Communicable Disease Control/organization & administration , Communicable Diseases, Emerging/epidemiology , Communicable Diseases, Emerging/prevention & control , Electronic Mail/organization & administration , Electronic Mail/trends , Humans , Information Services/organization & administration , Information Services/trends , Plant Diseases , PlantsABSTRACT
A Internet está mudando a conduçäo da vigilância global de doenças. Cada vez mais, os países e as organizaçöes internacionais estäo divulgando seus informes na Internet, o que acelera näo apenas a distribuiçäo desta informaçäo, como também, conseqüentemente, a prevençäo e controle das doenças. A Organizaçäo Mundial da Saúde (OMS) já reconheceu a importância das ONGs e da imprensa na notificaçäo de surtos, que procura verificar posteriormente através de suas agências locais. Entretanto, a OMS e outras fontes oficiais sofrem restriçöes em seus relatórios pela obrigatoriedade da autorizaçäo burocrática, além de só publicarem informes nos dias úteis. A ProMed-mail