Trend analysis of COVID-19 mis/disinformation narratives-A 3-year study.

To tackle the COVID-19 infodemic, we analysed 58,625 articles from 460 unverified sources, that is, sources that were indicated by fact checkers and other mis/disinformation experts as frequently spreading mis/disinformation, covering the period from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2022. Our aim was to identify the main narratives of COVID-19 mis/disinformation, develop a codebook, automate the process of narrative classification by training an automatic classifier, and analyse the spread of narratives over time and across countries. Articles were retrieved with a customised version of the Europe Media Monitor (EMM) processing chain providing a stream of text items.

[The role of paramedical personnel in combatting sexually transmitted diseases].

The authors present the main sexually transmitted diseases and point out the important role of the ancillary staff in their prophylaxis and control. Efficiency in this field depends highly on the team within, which the ancillary staff is organically integrated, besides the physicians. The paper insists on the conditions under which these diseases appear, the necessity of epidemiologic investigation, recording and compulsory treatment under medical surveillance.