Mary Wilson
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Published:June 08, 2022
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(22)00359-0
Moritz U G Kraemer, Houriiyah Tegally, David M Pigott, Abhishek Dasgupta, James Sheldon, Eduan Wilkinson, Marinanicole Schultheiss, Aimee Han, Mark Oglia, Spencer Marks, Joshua Kanner, Katelynn O'Brien, Sudheer Dandamudi, Benjamin Rader, Kara Sewalk, Ana I Bento, Samuel V Scarpino, Tulio de Oliveira, Isaac I Bogoch, Rebecca Katz, John S Brownstein
Monkeypox virus was first documented in humans in the 1970s and outbreaks have been reported in many countries, with most cases restricted to endemic areas.[SUP]1[/SUP] In early May, 2022, monkeypox cases were reported in the UK, Spain, and elsewhere in Europe (figure, appendix).[SUP]2[/SUP] The pattern of geographical dispersal was much larger compared with past outbreaks that were more localised and occurred often in under-resourced communities.[SUP]3[/SUP] The size of the outbreak clusters is growing each day, as is the geographical spread across Europe and North America. Within the first week of the initial report, 24 countries reported suspected and confirmed cases of monkeypox virus, some of which had known travel links to the UK, Spain, Canada, and western Europe. As of June 5, 2022, there have been 920 confirmed and 70 suspected cases. Of 64 confirmed cases with known travel history, 32 were associated with travel from Europe, three from west Africa, two from Canada, and one from Australia. For 26 cases, travel history locations remain unknown.
... To support global response efforts, our team created an open-access database and visualisation to track the occurrence of cases in different countries. In addition, where available, we added information on age (aggregated into age ranges, with a minimum range of 5 years), gender, dates of symptom onset and laboratory confirmation, symptoms, locations (aggregated to the state level), travel history, and additional metadata defined by WHO.[SUP]5[/SUP]
Data are compiled from verified sources, including reports from governments and public health organisations and news media reporting of health official statements. As verified information and official statements are published, we document secondary sources and update the metadata in the dataset. An on-call schedule for curators that runs 24 h a day, 7 days a week was established to ensure data are updated in near real-time. Each case is seen and discussed by at least two curators before being made available via our Global.health GitHub repository, and pushed to the map visualisation at least four times per day.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00359-0/fulltext
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(22)00359-0
Moritz U G Kraemer, Houriiyah Tegally, David M Pigott, Abhishek Dasgupta, James Sheldon, Eduan Wilkinson, Marinanicole Schultheiss, Aimee Han, Mark Oglia, Spencer Marks, Joshua Kanner, Katelynn O'Brien, Sudheer Dandamudi, Benjamin Rader, Kara Sewalk, Ana I Bento, Samuel V Scarpino, Tulio de Oliveira, Isaac I Bogoch, Rebecca Katz, John S Brownstein
Monkeypox virus was first documented in humans in the 1970s and outbreaks have been reported in many countries, with most cases restricted to endemic areas.[SUP]1[/SUP] In early May, 2022, monkeypox cases were reported in the UK, Spain, and elsewhere in Europe (figure, appendix).[SUP]2[/SUP] The pattern of geographical dispersal was much larger compared with past outbreaks that were more localised and occurred often in under-resourced communities.[SUP]3[/SUP] The size of the outbreak clusters is growing each day, as is the geographical spread across Europe and North America. Within the first week of the initial report, 24 countries reported suspected and confirmed cases of monkeypox virus, some of which had known travel links to the UK, Spain, Canada, and western Europe. As of June 5, 2022, there have been 920 confirmed and 70 suspected cases. Of 64 confirmed cases with known travel history, 32 were associated with travel from Europe, three from west Africa, two from Canada, and one from Australia. For 26 cases, travel history locations remain unknown.
... To support global response efforts, our team created an open-access database and visualisation to track the occurrence of cases in different countries. In addition, where available, we added information on age (aggregated into age ranges, with a minimum range of 5 years), gender, dates of symptom onset and laboratory confirmation, symptoms, locations (aggregated to the state level), travel history, and additional metadata defined by WHO.[SUP]5[/SUP]
Data are compiled from verified sources, including reports from governments and public health organisations and news media reporting of health official statements. As verified information and official statements are published, we document secondary sources and update the metadata in the dataset. An on-call schedule for curators that runs 24 h a day, 7 days a week was established to ensure data are updated in near real-time. Each case is seen and discussed by at least two curators before being made available via our Global.health GitHub repository, and pushed to the map visualisation at least four times per day.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00359-0/fulltext