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Table 1.

Websites used in the Global Infectious Diseases Epidemic Information Monitoring System.

Website number	Name and responsible department	Important column
1^a	WHO^b [10]	“Disease Outbreak News”
2^a	WHO Western Pacific Region [11]	“Outbreaks and emergencies” in “Emergencies”
3^a	WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean [12]
4^a	WHO Regional Office for Europe [13]	“Emergencies” from “Health topics”
5^a	WHO Regional Office for the Americas [14]	Epidemiological Alerts and Updates
6^a	WHO Regional Office for Africa [15]	Outbreaks and other emergencies
7^a	ECDC^c [16]	News & events
8^a,d	MOH^e (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) [17]	Command and control center
9^a,d	Travel Health Service, Department of Health, Hong Kong, China [18]	“Travel Health News”
10^a	CDC^f (US) [19]	“Outbreaks”
11^a,d	MOH (Singapore) [20]	“Weekly Infectious Diseases Bulletin” in “disease update”
12^a	Global Polio Education Initiative [21]	“This week” in “Polio Today”
13^g	Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, International Society for Infectious Diseases [22]	Need to distinguish human or animal diseases
14^a,d	Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health (Hong Kong, China) [23]	“Outbreaks”
15^a,d	CDC (South Korea) [24]	“Domestic Infectious Disease Occurrence” from “Archives”
16^a,d	Department of Disease Control (Thailand) [25]	Weekly Disease Forecast
17^g	Outbreak News Today, satellite of The Global Dispatch Inc [26]	Recent posts
18^g	Global Incident Map [27]	50 newest events
19^a	Pan American Health Organization [28]	“Epidemiological Alerts and Updates”
20^a	Travel health notices, Government of Canada [29]	“Travel health notices”
21^g	Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, Academic Health Center, University of Minnesota (MN, US) [30]	“News and Perspective”
22^a,d	CDC, MOH (Taiwan) [31]	Professional and public version
23^a,d	Unit for Communicable Disease Prevention and Diseases Surveillance, CDC (Macau, China) [32]	“latest news”
24^a,d	Chinese National Influenza Center [33]	“Weekly Report”
25^g	HealthMap, Harvard University (MA, US) [34]	“Outbreaks Near Me”
26^a,d	Nigeria Center for Disease Control and Prevention [35]	“Weekly Epidemiological Report” from “Publications”

^aOfficial public websites.

^bWHO: World Health Organization.

^cECDC: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

^dUsers pay close attention to epidemic information from this area.

^eMOH: Ministry of Health.

^fCDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

^gThis website gives comprehensive and timely epidemic information.