Traditional Healers and Global Surveillance Strategies for Emerging Diseases: Closing the Gap
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Traditional healers and global surveillance strategies for emerging diseases.
A recent position paper by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stresses that surveillance is critical to an effective defense against new and reemerg-ing infectious diseases and indicates that current international monitoring of such diseases is fragmentary and inadequate (1). Other major studies have also recorded the weaknesses in the present disease reporting system (2-4). T...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1080-6040
DOI: 10.3201/eid0204.960412