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Reporting, horizon scanning and risk assessment systems

Many tools exist to detect public health threats. Watch Dilys Morgan explain some of the in this video.

In this step Dilys Morgan (Public Health England) introduces outbreak risk profiling activities and tools including: scanning to detect and verify outbreaks of potential threat to public health; assessment to determine the potential public health threat; and communication of risk assessment information, including how to tell real from exaggerated or fake reports.

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