Emerging respiratory viruses, including nCoV: methods for detection, prevention, response and control #WHO

Course information

Overview: This course provides a general introduction to emerging respiratory viruses, including novel coronaviruses. By the end of this course, you should be able to describe:

• The nature of emerging respiratory viruses, how to detect and assess an outbreak, strategies for preventing and controlling outbreaks due to novel respiratory viruses;
• What strategies should be used to communicate risk and engage communities to detect, prevent and respond to the emergence of a novel respiratory virus.

There are resources attached to each module to help you dive further into this topic.

Learning objective: Understand the fundamental principles of emerging respiratory viruses and how to effectively respond to an outbreak.

Course duration: Approximately 1 hour.

Certificates: No certificate available at this time.

There will be more modules published shortly.

Course contents

• Module A: Introduction to Emerging respiratory viruses, including nCoV:

  Overall learning objective: To be able to explain why an emerging respiratory virus, including nCoV are a global threat to human health

• Module B: Detecting Emerging respiratory viruses, including nCoV: Surveillance and Laboratory investigation:

  Overall learning objective: To describe how to detect and assess an emerging respiratory virus outbreak

https://openwho.org/courses/introduction-to-ncov

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