Selected article for: "infectious disease and public health disease"

Author: Morens, David M.; Fauci, Anthony S.
Title: Emerging Infectious Diseases in 2012: 20 Years after the Institute of Medicine Report
  • Document date: 2012_12_11
  • ID: u178w3kj_8
    Snippet: Internet resources devoted to EIDs also have flourished. For example, ProMED was launched in 1994 as a grass roots effort by the Federation of American Scientists and has been continued by the International Society for Infectious Diseases. Today, ProMED's 60,000-plus subscribers from 185 countries can readopenly, online, and in real time-about virtually all important EIDs occurring anywhere in the world. This creates immediate awareness of epidem.....
    Document: Internet resources devoted to EIDs also have flourished. For example, ProMED was launched in 1994 as a grass roots effort by the Federation of American Scientists and has been continued by the International Society for Infectious Diseases. Today, ProMED's 60,000-plus subscribers from 185 countries can readopenly, online, and in real time-about virtually all important EIDs occurring anywhere in the world. This creates immediate awareness of epidemics not only for scientists but also for the public and the media. ProMED has made it extremely difficult for cautious governments to suppress outbreak information and has greatly enhanced the capacity of public health systems to control infectious disease outbreaks (11) .

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