The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER)
The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) serves as an essential instrument for the rapid and accurate dissemination of epidemiological information on cases and outbreaks of diseases under the International Health Regulations and on other communicable diseases of public health importance, including the newly emerging or re-emerging infections.
The WER is distributed every Friday in a bilingual English/French edition. The electronic edition is accessible free of charge. For information on subscription to the printed edition, visit the WHO Periodicals site or use the mail address: World Health Organization, Marketing and Dissemination, 20 Avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Fax: (+4122) 791 48 57.
An E.Mail subscription service exists, which provides by electronic mail the table of contents of the WER, together with other short epidemiological bulletins. To subscribe, send a message to [email protected]. The subject field should be left blank and the body of the message should contain only the line subscribe wer-reh.
