Effective biosecurity is necessary to protect nations and their citizens from a variety of threats, including emerging infectious diseases, agricultural or environmental pests and pathogens, and illegal wildlife trade. The physical pathways by which these threats are transported internationally, predominantly shipping and air traffic, have undergone significant growth and changes in spatial dis...

Recent epidemics and pandemics have highlighted a number of ethical concerns about the response to the increasing threat of emerging infectious diseases. Some of these ethical concerns are very fundamental. They include why a pandemic was declared, how much clinical information can be collected for public health without threatening patient confidentiality and how to ensure fairness in the distr...

1 Scientific Institute of Public Health, Directorate Public Health and Surveillance, Brussels, Belgium 2 KU Leuven, UZ Gasthuisberg, Department of Medical Diagnostic Sciences, Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, Leuven, Belgium 3 Scientific Institute of Public Health, Directorate Communicable and Infectious Diseases, Brussels, Belgium [email protected] Influenza surveillance in children:...

The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (AFHSC-GEIS) has the mission of performing surveillance for emerging infectious diseases that could affect the United States (U.S.) military. This mission is accomplished by orchestrating a global portfolio of surveillance projects, capacity-building efforts, outbreak investigations and trai...

The session focused upon several issues raised by Mr Anand Sinha in the context of both advanced and emerging market economies (EMEs). Keeping in view, broader interlinkages between the financial sector and the real sector, the need for better coordination between financial regulation and macroeconomic policies for sustaining growth was emphasized. Given the nature and origin of the recent cris...

While newly available electronic transmission methods can increase timeliness and completeness of infectious disease reports, limitations of this technology may unintentionally compromise detection of, and response to, bioterrorism and other outbreaks. We reviewed implementation experiences for five electronic laboratory systems and identified problems with data transmission, sensitivity, speci...

Hava Yilmaz; Vedat Turhan; Kadriye Kart Yasar; Mustafa Hatipoglu; Mustafa Sunbul Prof; Hakan Leblebicioglu, Prof; Infectious Diseases, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey; Gata Haydarpasa Training Hospital, Infectious Disease and Clinical Microbiology Deparment, Istanbul, Turkey; Infectious Diseases, Bakirkoy Sadi Konuk Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey; Infectious Diseases,...

Abstract Aim Orthognathic surgery corrects craniofacial deformity which compromises breathing or masticatory function. Patients typology influences their expectations for physical and psychological transformation before after is an emerging area of research. This study aims to evaluate: 1) subjective and/or perceived outcomes 2) whether orthognathic meets patients’ expectations. Method A questi...