What does GOARN stand for?

Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (United Nations WHO Disease Notification System)

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The WHO said the health experts from Australia, France, the Netherlands and Singapore were drawn from the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, a pool of experts on permanent standby to respond to health emergencies.

WHO experts helping Philippines contain deadly disease: UN

A WHO statement said the government has "requested for a Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network mission to provide assistance in the management of the outbreak of Leptospirosis as a result of the continued exposure of affected populations to floodwaters".

Alert as typhoon nears Philippines

The WHO and the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) are sending medical experts to Mexico to support the health authorities.

Environment ministry demands relocation of pig farms

The WHO established its Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network in 2000, drawing together basic information on a handful of key infectious diseases (though the agency is limited in what it can do in response to outbreaks when they occur).

Infectious disease: the human costs of our environmental errors

The WHO Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) was rapidly mobilized in response to the SARS outbreak involving international field support, epidemiological and clinical networking, and laboratory collaboration.

United Nations workers grapple with SARS. (Global Health Threat)

Its global outbreak alert and response network is coordinating 11 laboratories in 10 countries in a joint effort to identify the cause.

Mysterious pneumonia cases in H.K. soar to 111

The organisation continuously monitors possible disease outbreaks through its Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, which aims to keep the international community alert to the threat of outbreaks and ready to respond.

Health body warns of chemical threat

A three-member team was flying into Manila "in the next day or so" after the government sought help from the 140-nation Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network to fight the outbreak, Adam Craig, an official of the WHO Western Pacific regional office in Manila, told AFP.

Disaster-hit Philippines seeks help on outbreak: WHO