Responses to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: One world, One health

emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: public health perspective

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Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases: Public Health Perspective

DEAR EDITOR, There have been threats of new diseases emerging due to the evolution/adaptation of microbes and the re-emergence of old diseases due to the development of antimicrobial resistance. Many factors have contributed to the emergence of infectious disease such as unplanned and under-planned urbanization; increased exposure of humans to disease vectors/reservoirs; rapid population growth...

New, emerging, and re-emerging infectious diseases.

Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.

Microbial pathogens discovered as aetiological agents of human disease over the last 25 years are reviewed. Strengthening of laboratory and public health surveillance is of paramount importance for early detection and management of emerging infectious diseases.

Emerging infectious diseases: nursing responses.

T h e of the potentially disasspecter trous effects of an outbreak of an emerging infectious disease has received widespread attention in the scientific community, political arenas, and the national media. In addition to being the topic of special scientific sessions such as that of the New York Academy of Sciences 1 and being featured in several recent popular books z'3 and movies, it has also...