Discover EpiPulse – the European surveillance portal for infectious
diseases
In June this year, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and
Control (ECDC) [https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en] launched EpiPulse
[https://zfs.ecdc.europa.eu/adfs/ls/?wa=wsignin1.0&wtrealm=https%3a%2f%2fepipulse.ecdc.europa.eu%2f&wctx=rm%3d0%26id%3dpassive%26ru%3dhttps%3A%2F%2Fepipulse.ecdc.europa.eu%2F&wct=2021-07-15T11%3a27%3a54Z],
the European surveillance portal for infectious diseases.  

Appointed experts from countries that collaborate with the ECDC, ECDC
staff, and representatives of European authorities and international
organisations provide data to the portal. The platform combines data
from various surveillance systems such as the European Surveillance
System (TESSy)
[https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/european-surveillance-system-tessy],
the five Epidemic Intelligence Information System (EPIS)
[https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/epidemic-intelligence-information-system-epis]
platforms and the Threat Tracking Tool (TTT)
[https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/threats-and-outbreaks/epidemic-intelligence].
By integrating data from these systems, the platform serves as a
single point of access to data, seamlessly connecting information and
fostering interdisciplinary collaboration between users from different
sectors. 

The EpiPulse portal is available to the public (after registration) to
enable monitoring and analysing of cases of infectious diseases and
potentially threatening pathogens.  

The portal allows for surveillance on the diseases themselves but also
on associated health issues, for instance: global epidemic
intelligence and health determinants. With EpiPulse, the ECDC intends
to boost early threat detection, ultimately improving both prevention
and control of infectious diseases, and its related threats to public
health and society.  

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Publication Date/Time
2021-07-19T12:00:00+00:00
Fostering public health surveillance across Europe