This is a follow-up to my talk at International Data Week 2018 (abstract, slides).

In preparation, I will post some additional notes here before setting up the slides proper.

For instance, there was a press release by the Liberian Ministry of Health, announcing that fragments of Ebola Zaire virus RNA had been found in a Miniopterus inflatus bat in Liberia:

• http://nationalphil.org/index.php/press-release/
  • see also multiple news pieces on the matter
    • e.g. doi:10.1126/science.aaw7864, Das Virus in der Fledermaus

“felt that this was an important finding to bring to the public irrespective of a scientific publication”

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory/Liberia

• http://www.nbc29.com/story/39873768/uva-confirms-cases-of-norovirus-within-student-population
• https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/topic/Q1142751

• 1970s and ‘Patient 0’ HIV-1 genomes illuminate early HIV/AIDS history in North America
  • reused blood samples to sequence patient genomes to analyze the spread of HIV
• Human Sera Collected between 1979 and 2010 Possess Blocking-Antibody Titers to Pandemic GII.4 Noroviruses Isolated over Three Decades

• organizations with affiliated authors who have published about norovirus
• filter for a specific organization

try to dig out that old paywalled paper that predicted that Liberia might be in risk of an Ebola outbreak

Here's a post about a post about such papers: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150409/17514230608/dont-think-open-access-is-important-it-might-have-prevented-much-ebola-outbreak.shtml

some more on those Liberian papers:

• http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2015/04/1982-study-suggested-ebola-was-liberia-then
• https://health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12961-017-0235-3
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27865376
• https://web.archive.org/web/20171214145557/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/opinion/yes-we-were-warned-about-ebola.html
• https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06536

My slides for today are up at https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/events/blob/master/Environmental-Health-Seminar-Env-H-580-on-2019-01-31.md . Will keep tuning them a bit more.

Both the Liberian press release and the UVA email contained recommendations, and recommendations are just another kind of data to be collected, refined and shared in emergency contexts.