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cord-312103-lakwurn0	Mondor, Luke	Timeliness of Nongovernmental versus Governmental Global Outbreak Communications	2012-07-17		.txt	text/plain	1491	88	45	To compare the timeliness of nongovernmental and governmental communications of infectious disease outbreaks and evaluate trends for each over time, we investigated the time elapsed from the beginning of an outbreak to public reporting of the event. We found that governmental sources improved the timeliness of public reporting of infectious disease outbreaks during the study period. The median time from estimated outbreak start to initial public communication was 10 days shorter for nongovernmental sources (23 days, 95% CI 20-32) than for governmental sources (33 days, 95% CI 30-45), although this difference was not signifi cant according to the Wilcoxon rank-sum test (p = 0.200) ( Table 1) . Despite these limitations, our data highlight the value of nongovernmental sources as an integral resource for providing timely information about global infectious disease threats, and demonstrate the signifi cant improvements in the timeliness of outbreak reporting made by governmental sources.	./cache/cord-312103-lakwurn0.txt	./txt/cord-312103-lakwurn0.txt