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Stay current on the latest infectious disease outbreaks worldwide with GIDEON’s epidemiological events page.

The GIDEON epidemiological events page offers:

• Daily outbreak alerts
• Key global infectious disease updates
• 1 easy-to-follow feed delivered straight to your inbox

👉🏻 The best part is, you do not need a GIDEON subscription to access these alerts.

And we’re not the only ones who think it’s a game-changer. Here’s what a customer said:

“The GIDEON event alerts [feature] is now one of our primary sources for tracking emerging events. We were delighted when it came out.”
— Global travel risk management company.

Medical professionals and infectious disease experts use GIDEON to earn Continuing Education (CE) credits.

Whether you’re researching disease information for a case, using GIDEON’s differential diagnosis module to finalize your diagnosis, or learning about outbreaks, collect CE credits as you go.

GIDEON partnered with PRIME Education to offer CME credits for Physicians (ACCME), Nurses (ANCC), Physician Assistants (AAPA), Pharmacists (ACPE), and Microbiologists (ASCP).

PRIME Education is an accredited, research-focused Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Education (CE) provider.

Earn 0.5 CE credits per point-of-care activity:

1. Sign in
2. Click the CE credits link in the bottom right of the screen
3. Submit brief feedback on the activity.

Included as a benefit for GIDEON subscribers

GIDEON’s latest article in The EpiMonitor (read by 35,000+ public health professionals) exposes the battles plaguing health systems worldwide: weaponized misinformation, climate-driven disease emergence, antimicrobial resistance, and more.

Plus, information chaos slows response times when every second counts.

Discover how health teams can cut through the noise to make faster, smarter decisions in public health.

Access country-level views on disease outbreak, global outbreak, and vaccine coverage maps.

This update allows you to focus on individual countries for more detailed analysis, making it easier to examine disease trends and vaccination rates with greater clarity.

Simply select your country of choice from the drop-down at the top of the map for more targeted insights.

Your favorite GIDEON diagnosis tool just got even better!

Now you can eliminate ruled-out diseases from your probability list during diagnosis—simply click on the X beside them.

The list automatically recalculates and streamlines your path to the right diagnosis.

Changed your mind? No problem!

Find eliminated diseases at the bottom of the list where you can easily reinstate them.

It’s easier than ever to find GIDEON’s infectious disease data!

Activate the GIDEON collection in Alma, Ex Libris’s popular library management system

The GIDEON database content is now live in Ex Libris’ CDI (Central Discovery Index) and is set to update on a weekly schedule.

Activate GIDEON in Alma in just 2 easy steps!

1. Search for Collection ID: 6114064490000041 (GIDEON – Global Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Network)
2. Click on “Activate for search in CDI” as shown in the image above

Boost decision-making speed and accuracy with real-time access to quality infectious disease data!

Key points

• GIDEON, a leading provider of infectious disease data, partnered with TDNet, a premier discovery and content platform.
• Researchers get continuous access to GIDEON’s vast clinical and epidemiological data, updated daily.
• With GIDEON’s advanced search box, users can easily find the latest data on specific conditions in any country using powerful Boolean search tools.

Now, GIDEON’s customizable graphs offer deeper insights into the epidemiology of thousands of diseases.

What’s new?

• Access regional and state-level data for many countries
• Want to learn more about a specific data point? All you have to do is click on a point on a graph to get its reference.
• An AMA-style GIDEON reference is provided for your convenience when you download any graph or data table.

Sign in to GIDEON without going through the library website.

Now, there’s another way to sign in if your institution has a GIDEON subscription.

1. Visit the GIDEON sign-in page.
2. Enter the email provided by your institution in the ‘receive a magic link to your email’ field.
3. Click on the link to access GIDEON

The 2024 edition of GIDEON eBooks are live

GIDEON eBooks provide comprehensive coverage of infectious diseases, outbreaks, surveys, pathogens, drugs, and vaccines.

They complement the GIDEON platform perfectly—great for physicians, researchers, educators, and students.

Bonus: The 2024 edition also offers MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) records to help improve your efficiency.

Get trusted data on over 150 viruses on the GIDEON platform. The fastest way to get high-quality information and relevant clinical references. Comprehensive, clinically referenced, and all in one place.

What info do you get?

• Virus structure
• 200+ images
• 4,000+ clinical references
• Virus summaries include type, diseases caused, how they’re transmitted, relevant vaccines, and drugs

What viruses can you find?

• Human immunodeficiency virus
• Alphainfluenza virus influenzae
• Bandaviruses
• Ebola virus
• Marburg virus
• Chikungunya virus, and many, many more