Acknowledging that “communication expertise has become as essential to outbreak control as epidemiological training and laboratory analysis”, in 2005 the World Health Organization created Communication Guidelines aiming at clarifying the specific communication challenges faced by public health officials as well as the best practices for communicating with the public during an outbreak of a communicable disease.
Ob upoštevanju, da je „ strokovno obveščanje za nadzorovanje izbruhov postalo enako pomembno kot usposabljanje na področju epidemiologije in laboratorijske analize “ , je Svetovna zdravstvena organizacija v letu 2005 pripravila Smernice za obveščanje , s katerimi želi pojasniti nekatere komunikacijske izzive, s katerimi se soočajo uradniki za javno zdravje, ter najboljše prakse za komunikacijo z javnostjo v obdobju izbruha nalezljive bolezni.