Constructing a global human epidemic database using open-source digital biosurveillance

Here we present a subset of data from Ginkgo Biosecurity's Human Epidemic Database (HED), which consists of outbreak data collected from official, open-source surveillance reports. This provided dataset includes 1,044 epidemic events with onset between 2015 and 2020, covering more 230 countries and territories and 120 pathogens. The methodology to collate these data have been described in a manuscript submitted for publication, ‘Constructing a global human epidemic database using open-source digital biosurveillance’. Datasets included: - HED_data repository.csv - Event-level data repository with epidemics starting in 2015 to 2020. - HED_pathogens_supplement.csv - A list of pathogens and their associated grouping within our epidemic event scoring framework. This pathogen/grouping list is not comprehensive but rather a sampling of the pathogens scored. - HED_metadata.csv - Meta data describing columns in ‘HED_complete data repository.csv’