Plague in India. AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria nearly everywhere. Disease makes news, and the Weekly Epidemiological Record reports it - every week. For more than seven decades, the Weekly Epidemiological Record has served as an essential instrument for the collation and dissemination of epidemiological data useful in disease surveillance on a global level.
Priority is given to diseases or risk factors known to threaten international health.
Reflecting the broad application of epidemiological methods, weekly issues may combine an analysis of world trends in the yearly incidence of influenza or malaria with a profile of diphtheria cases as notified by a single country in a single month. Data on AIDS include global reports on the number of cases by country and by region.