Sentences with phrase «sharing during epidemics»

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At first, it would have spread slowly, only reaching an epidemic pace when people moved to the cities — or even, Myers suggests, through shared needles during mass vaccinations in the 1960s.

Some focused on the power of social media to reach broad swaths of people during an epidemic, relating its perks — messages can be disseminated quickly and concisely and are easily and widely shared — and its pitfalls — social media can foster rumors, and its reach doesn't include everyone.

Opting in to data sharing should be the default practice during public health emergencies, such as the recent Ebola epidemic, and barriers to sharing data and findings should be removed to ensure those responding to the emergency have the best available evidence at hand, according to Vasee Moorthy and colleagues from the World Health Organization (WHO) in a Policy Forum article published in PLOS Medicine.

While the share of doctor visits for flu - like symptoms plateaued during the week ended Feb. 10, indicating that flu season is waning, the number of deaths from this year's outbreak could outpace those from late 2009, which was marked by the swine - flu epidemic.