Public health

Monitoring the West Nile virus outbreaks in Italy using open access data

This paper introduces a comprehensive dataset on West Nile virus outbreaks that have occurred in Italy from September 2012 to November 2022. We have digitized bulletins published by the Italian National Institute of Health to demonstrate the …

Monkeypox: Early Estimation of Basic Reproduction Number R0 in Europe

This world outbreak of Monkeypox (MPX) infections outside Africa emerged on May 2022 in Europe and spread worldwide with unique characteristics: inter-human contagion and infection in men without specific previous immunization, prevalently …

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

The current out-of-Africa 2022 outbreak of Monkeypox requires a coordinated, international response through the rapid sharing of real-world data and research results, as seen with COVID-19 and the previous Ebola and Zika. To support global response …

Hepatitis of unknown origin in children: why and how to create an open access database

During the early stages of an epidemic, obtaining reliable data is a challenge, especially on a global scale. The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the importance of having “open data” (i.e., data which are made accessible and available in a …