Medical Review Process

Every AndesVirus.ai draft moves through a structured quality workflow built for outbreak-information integrity and public-health safety.

Review Scope

Medical review on AndesVirus.ai means source-fidelity review, risk-language review, and public-health safety review. It does not mean a page provides individualized diagnosis, treatment, triage, travel clearance, or emergency instructions. The review process is designed to keep informational pages aligned with official sources and to prevent automated content from overstating certainty.

Five-Step Review Workflow

  • Source retrieval from WHO, CDC, ECDC, PAHO, AP/Reuters context reporting, and PubMed where applicable.
  • Claim extraction and contradiction checks across primary references.
  • Risk-language review to avoid diagnosis framing and unsupported certainty.
  • Final reviewer checkpoint for source links, dates, and outbreak timeline accuracy.
  • Post-publish verification after indexing and reader-feedback scans.

High-Risk Claim Controls

Case-count control

Counts are not copied into a page unless the text also names the agency, publication date, and category language. A confirmed case, probable case, suspected case, exposed contact, and monitored traveler are treated as different facts.

Transmission control

Pages must separate the usual hantavirus rodent-exposure route from the narrower Andes virus close-contact exception. Ongoing investigation language cannot be rewritten as proof of casual spread.

Clinical-safety control

Symptom pages can explain warning signs and exposure context, but they cannot diagnose readers, promise treatment outcomes, or replace clinician and health-department instructions.

What Triggers Re-Review

A page is re-reviewed when a primary authority updates outbreak counts, changes transmission language, adds or removes travel guidance, revises clinical wording, or publishes a new risk assessment. Reader feedback can also trigger review when it points to a specific source discrepancy or unsupported claim.

When a Page Is Updated

A page is revised when WHO, CDC, ECDC, PAHO, a national health authority, or a peer-reviewed source changes the factual baseline for case classification, exposure guidance, symptoms, prevention, or transmission wording. Field reporting can trigger a review, but it does not override official medical or public-health guidance.

View source and citation methodology