NOUMEA, New Caledonia\u2014The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has just launched a new web-based interactive map showing current epidemic and emerging disease alerts in the Pacific region.<\/p>\n
Deputy Director of SPC\u2019s Public Health Division Dr. Yvan Souar\u00e8s said this new website has been developed to keep health professionals better informed and ensure they are better prepared to help protect the health of Pacific and international communities from epidemic and emerging diseases like chikungunya.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince last year the Pacific has suffered from an unprecedented epidemic wave of diseases transmitted by mosquitoes\u2014including dengue, zika, and chikungunya\u2014and it continues,\u2019 said Dr Souar\u00e8s.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeveral epidemics of measles are also currently occurring in the region.\u201d <\/p>\n
This new website provides an overview of the most up to date information on the circulation of epidemic and emerging diseases in the Pacific. <\/p>\n
It is located at: www.spc.int\/phd\/epidemics\/ <\/p>\n
Feedback from Pacific health professionals in the region, who saw the first prototype of this new website, has been very positive. Their comments indicated that they see it as a very useful tool for their daily practice of public health surveillance, preparedness and response to epidemics. <\/p>\n
The web interface allows users to visualise the epidemics and alerts in different ways, i.e. by country, disease, type of transmission and over recent time. <\/p>\n
Future developments will provide more descriptive and technical information on actual situations, and ultimately on historical data. <\/p>\n
For further information, please contact Christelle Lepers, Surveillance Information and Communication Officer in SPC\u2019s Public Health Division \u2013 Email: christellel@spc.int \u2013 Tel. (687) 26 01 81. (SPC)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NOUMEA, New Caledonia\u2014The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has just launched a new web-based…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[55,166],"class_list":["post-177104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-health-2","tag-spc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}