Sustaining Global Surveillance and Response to Emerging Zoonotic Diseases

摘要: H1N1 ("swine flu"), SARS, mad cow disease, and HIV/AIDS are a few examples of zoonotic diseases-diseases transmitted between humans animals. Zoonotic diseases growing concern given multiple factors: their often novel unpredictable nature, ability to emerge anywhere spread rapidly around the globe, major economic toll on several disparate industries.Infectious disease surveillance systems used detect this threat human animal health. By systematically collecting data occurrence infectious in animals, investigators can track provide an early warning health officials, nationally internationally, for follow-up response. Unfortunately, many reasons, current has been ineffective or untimely alerting officials emerging diseases.Sustaining Global Surveillance Response Emerging Diseases assesses some world, recommends ways improve detection The book presents solutions improved coordination sectors, among governments international organizations.Parties seeking response diseases--including U.S. government policy makers, researchers, epidemiologists, clinicians, veterinarians--can use help curtail pose economies, societies,