What we are watching—five top global infectious disease threats, 2012: a perspective from CDC's Global Disease Detection Operations Center
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What we are watching—five top global infectious disease threats, 2012: a perspective from CDC’s Global Disease Detection Operations Center
Disease outbreaks of international public health importance continue to occur regularly; detecting and tracking significant new public health threats in countries that cannot or might not report such events to the global health community is a challenge. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Global Disease Detection (GDD) Operations Center, established in early 2007, monitors in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Health Threats Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1752-8550
DOI: 10.3402/ehtj.v6i0.20632