Monkeypox: EpiMPX Surveillance System and Open Data with a Special Focus on European and Italian Epidemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The current out-of-Africa 2022 outbreak of Monkeypox requires a coordinated, international response through the rapid sharing of data and research results, as we have seen with COVID-19 and the previous Ebola and Zika outbreaks, which demonstrated how important real-world data are to inform public health, to create surveillance systems, to determine policy decisions and to improve clinical trials.

Objectives

To support global response efforts by providing public access to real-time Monkeypox-related data for effective use of open data that could accelerate scientific knowledge and discoveries in terms of understanding, preventing, and treating the disease. In practice, to create a new surveillance system easy to consult and utilize.

Study design

This work a

SUBMITTER: Branda F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9531934 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature