Hajj: infectious disease surveillance and control

Hajj: infectious disease surveillance and control.

Religious festivals attract a large number of pilgrims from worldwide and are a potential risk for the transmission of infectious diseases between pilgrims, and to the indigenous population. The gathering of a large number of pilgrims could compromise the health system of the host country. The threat to global health security posed by infectious diseases with epidemic potential shows the import...

infectious disease surveillance

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Infectious disease surveillance: a cornerstone for prevention and control

In view of the galloping pace of globalization that is transforming the world into a global village, close international cooperation is essential in the detection , prevention, and control of communicable diseases.

Infectious Disease Surveillance

This book devotes chapters to the usual infectious disease suspects and surveillance concepts and systems. I will not go into details of its contents and glowing attributes; the publisher (www.blackwellpublishing.com/ book.asp?ref=9781405142663) and reviewers (1,2) have done a good job on this. Instead, I conducted a simple review to try and answer the following question: compared with a free I...

Infectious Disease Surveillance