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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: infectious disease + infectious diseases + pandemic  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/12/2008)

Bird flu hot topic at disease conference
ABC Online, Australia - May 11, 2008
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Infectious Diseases in Abkhazia region of Georgia and the Threat ...
Abkhazia, CA - Apr 22, 2008
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The Daily Yomiuri, Japan - Apr 23, 2008
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Why bird flu? Why a pandemic simulation?
Jakarta Post, Indonesia - Apr 26, 2008
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Is It Contagious?
Conservation Magazine, Washington - May 3, 2008
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Is our zeal for cleanliness making us ill?
Times Online, UK - May 4, 2008
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Science Daily (press release) - May 1, 2008
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Global Climate and Infectious Disease: The Cholera Paradigm* -
RR Colwell - Science, 1996 - sciencemag.org
... its appearance in Indonesia in 1961, the disease spread to ... was in 1991 when the seventh
pandemic struck South ... a massive bloom can provide an infectious dose in ...

Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases -
SS Morse? - Emerg Infect Dis, 1995 - cdc.gov
... for the surface protein, hemagglutinin) and pandemic strains, arising ... also evolve
and cause a new disease) (2,4). The process by which infectious agents may ...

Trends in Infectious Disease Mortality in the United States During the 20th Century -
GL Armstrong, LA Conn, RW Pinner - JAMA, 1999 - Am Med Assoc
... scale, it is conceivable that a future pandemic with a particularly virulent strain
could cause another large spike in the infectious disease mortality curve. ...

[BOOK] Evolution of Infectious Disease
PW Ewald - 1994 - books.google.com
... the 1983 chicken epidemic had its human counterpart?a pandemic of influenza that ...
better, we had better try to understand the evolution of infectious disease. ...

The mathematics of infectious diseases -
HW Hethcote - SIAM Review, 2000 - JSTOR
... this might lead to another antigenic shift and pandemic. ... are not balanced or when
the disease-related deaths ... Infectious diseases have often had a big impact on ...

[PDF] Emerging infectious diseases and amphibian population declines -
P Daszak, L Berger, AA Cunningham, AD Hyatt, DE … - Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1999 - studentresearch.wcp.muohio.edu
... or competitors, increased ultraviolet (UV-B) irradiation, acid precipitation, adverse
weather patterns, environmental pollution, infectious disease, or a ...
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The challenge of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases -
DM Morens, GK Folkers, AS Fauci - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
... in bringing people into contact with infectious agents 55 . ... in travel-associated
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From the Cover Climate and infectious disease: Use of remote sensing for detection of Vibrio … -
B Lobitz, L Beck, A Huq, B Wood, G Fuchs, ASG … - Proc Natl Acad Sci US A, 2000 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... The seventh pandemic of cholera started in 1961 and currently affects six continents
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Infectious Diseases: Considerations for the 21 st Century -
AS Fauci - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2001 - UChicago Press
... The AIDS pandemic is a prototypical example of a truly new and emerging infectious
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Factors that make an infectious disease outbreak controllable -
C Fraser, S Riley, RM Anderson, NM Ferguson - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
... on the recognition of specific disease symptoms, we ... the relative timing of infectious-
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Infectious Disease Surveillance To Control Pandemics
The key to controlling any pandemic is early identification and rapid response. Although considerable progress has been made in global infectious disease surveillance, few scientists are optimistic that an effective early warning system is in place, and many gaps remain, according to researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. A paper entitled "Global Infectious Disease Surveillance and Health Intelligence," in the July/August issue of Health Affairs, calls for increasing resources for improved coordination and sharing of information, and additional research to develop the most rigorous triggers for action.
Current concerns about the spread of infectious diseases, especially unexpected, emerging infections, have renewed focus on the critical importance of global early warning and rapid response. "The development of effective, interconnected systems of infectious disease surveillance is essential to our survival," said Stephen S. Morse, PhD, associate professor of clinical Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School, and the paper's author. "Fortunately, while the increasing availability of communications and information technologies worldwide does offer new opportunities for reporting even in low-capacity settings, resource constraints remain the missing elements for much of the world." These information technologies include the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED), a scientist-to-scientist network connecting more than 30,000 subscribers in 155 countries, and the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak and Response Network (GOARN).

According to Dr. Morse, it is likely that the emergence of "novel" infections such as SARS, H5NI influenza and HIV/AIDS will continue and possibly even increase in the future, making early warning increasingly critical. "Unfortunately the outlook for global surveillance capabilities is variable in most of the world and varies from weak to virtually nonexistent." He attributes the limited global capabilities to a combination of factors including health's low priority on government agendas and the delayed reporting of disease information. "Governments are often reluctant to report disease information for fear of political embarrassment, economic repercussions, or concern that it may make the government look ineffectual," noted Dr. Morse. He also suggests that infectious disease activities may fall victim to overall competition for limited public health resources.

Despite some progress many more improvements are needed, believes Dr. Morse. He outlines the following recommendations:

* Coordinating reporting systems worldwide to ensure compatible standards for aggregating and sharing data. The new WHO International Health regulations may provide an opportunity to develop a consistent worldwide system;
Encourage improvements by providing additional resources;

* Further encourage clinicians and health officials to report by providing useful feedback;

* Train local people to recognize and report outbreaks where clinicians are in short supply; and

* Educate policymakers to consider disease surveillance a priority.

The full paper is published in Volume 26, Number 4 of Health Affairs. The research was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

About the Mailman School of Public Health

The only accredited school of public health in New York City, and among the first in the nation, Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health provides instruction and research opportunities to more than 950 graduate students in pursuit of masters and doctoral degrees. Its students and more than 300 multi-disciplinary faculty engage in research and service in the city, nation, and around the world, concentrating on biostatistics, environmental health sciences, epidemiology, health policy and management, population and family health, and sociomedical sciences. http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/

Source: Stephanie Berger
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
 
 
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