TY - JOUR AU - Mondor, Luke AU - Brownstein, John AU - Chan, Emily AU - Madoff, Lawrence AU - Pollack, Marjorie AU - Buckeridge, David AU - Brewer, Timothy T1 - Timeliness of Nongovernmental versus Governmental Global Outbreak Communications T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2012 VL - 18 IS - 7 SP - 1184 SN - 1080-6059 AB - To compare the timeliness of nongovernmental and governmental communications of infectious disease outbreaks and evaluate trends for each over time, we investigated the time elapsed from the beginning of an outbreak to public reporting of the event. We found that governmental sources improved the timeliness of public reporting of infectious disease outbreaks during the study period. KW - outbreak reporting KW - pandemic preparedness KW - informal sources KW - emerging infectious diseases KW - ProMED-mail KW - nongovernmental KW - governmental KW - global KW - outbreaks KW - communications DO - 10.3201/eid1807.120249 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/7/12-0249_article ER - End of Reference