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⚠️ WHO receives over 100,000 alerts every month. Any of these signals could be a real health threat, an epidemic or even a pandemic.
What we call signals are something unusual that happens in public health around the world. For example:
🏥 There are more people than usual at a local hospital. 🧑🏿�🤝�🧑🏼 People have illnesses that we don't expect to see in young people or in different demographics in a society. 🌍 We hear that more and more people are dying in some parts of the world. 🌊 There is a flood, a war or a conflict and people are dying.
🧐 So how do scientists and the WHO decide together which of these signals could be a potential outbreak?
We have a system in each country through which a lot of this work is done.
This system includes:
1️⃣ Automated analysis of all media sources. 2️⃣ Use artificial intelligence to filter out the noise. 3️⃣ Verification, which often means calling colleagues in the affected community. 4️⃣ Sometimes we take a sample from a group of people and send it to a lab to confirm the disease in question.
Find out how WHO protects your health ➡️ https://bit.ly/4fXNoUe
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