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For 100 years, the Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) has documented the evolving story of global public health, one week at a time. First published in April 1926 by the Health Office of the League of Nations, the WER began as a simple bulletin: telegraphed reports tracking the spread of five notifiable diseases – cholera, plague, smallpox, yellow fever and typhus. The publication was entrusted to the @WHO when the Organization was established in 1948. Today, on its 100th anniversary, the WER is becoming a digital publication, and continues to provide timely epidemiological information: www.who.int/publications/journals/weekly-e...