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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...

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Main Authors: Christian, Kira A., Ijaz, Kashef, Dowell, Scott F., Chow, Catherine C., Chitale, Rohit A., Bresee, Joseph S., Mintz, Eric, Pallansch, Mark A., Wassilak, Steven, McCray, Eugene, Arthur, Ray R.
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Language:English
Published: Co-Action Publishing 2013
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Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3701798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23827387
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ehtj.v6i0.20632
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author Christian, Kira A.
Ijaz, Kashef
Dowell, Scott F.
Chow, Catherine C.
Chitale, Rohit A.
Bresee, Joseph S.
Mintz, Eric
Pallansch, Mark A.
Wassilak, Steven
McCray, Eugene
Arthur, Ray R.
author_facet Christian, Kira A.
Ijaz, Kashef
Dowell, Scott F.
Chow, Catherine C.
Chitale, Rohit A.
Bresee, Joseph S.
Mintz, Eric
Pallansch, Mark A.
Wassilak, Steven
McCray, Eugene
Arthur, Ray R.
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description 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 infectious and non-infectious public health events to identify new or unexplained global public health threats and better position CDC to respond, if public health assistance is requested or required. At any one time, the GDD Operations Center actively monitors approximately 30–40 such public health threats; here we provide our perspective on five of the top global infectious disease threats that we were watching in 2012: (1) avian influenza A (H5N1), (2) cholera, (3) wild poliovirus, (4) enterovirus-71, and (5) extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.
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spelling pubmed-37017982013-07-05 What we are watching—five top global infectious disease threats, 2012: a perspective from CDC’s Global Disease Detection Operations Center Christian, Kira A. Ijaz, Kashef Dowell, Scott F. Chow, Catherine C. Chitale, Rohit A. Bresee, Joseph S. Mintz, Eric Pallansch, Mark A. Wassilak, Steven McCray, Eugene Arthur, Ray R. Emerg Health Threats J Perspective 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 infectious and non-infectious public health events to identify new or unexplained global public health threats and better position CDC to respond, if public health assistance is requested or required. At any one time, the GDD Operations Center actively monitors approximately 30–40 such public health threats; here we provide our perspective on five of the top global infectious disease threats that we were watching in 2012: (1) avian influenza A (H5N1), (2) cholera, (3) wild poliovirus, (4) enterovirus-71, and (5) extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis. Co-Action Publishing 2013-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3701798/ /pubmed/23827387 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ehtj.v6i0.20632 Text en © 2013 Kira A. Christian et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Perspective
Christian, Kira A.
Ijaz, Kashef
Dowell, Scott F.
Chow, Catherine C.
Chitale, Rohit A.
Bresee, Joseph S.
Mintz, Eric
Pallansch, Mark A.
Wassilak, Steven
McCray, Eugene
Arthur, Ray R.
What we are watching—five top global infectious disease threats, 2012: a perspective from CDC’s Global Disease Detection Operations Center
title What we are watching—five top global infectious disease threats, 2012: a perspective from CDC’s Global Disease Detection Operations Center
title_full What we are watching—five top global infectious disease threats, 2012: a perspective from CDC’s Global Disease Detection Operations Center
title_fullStr What we are watching—five top global infectious disease threats, 2012: a perspective from CDC’s Global Disease Detection Operations Center
title_full_unstemmed What we are watching—five top global infectious disease threats, 2012: a perspective from CDC’s Global Disease Detection Operations Center
title_short What we are watching—five top global infectious disease threats, 2012: a perspective from CDC’s Global Disease Detection Operations Center
title_sort what we are watching—five top global infectious disease threats, 2012: a perspective from cdc’s global disease detection operations center
topic Perspective
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3701798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23827387
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ehtj.v6i0.20632
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