Emerging Infectious Diseases in the 21st Century: A Prevention Paradigm for Surveillance, Information Sharing, and Health Diplomacy

National Institutes of Health. 05/04/2016This 56-minute presentation, the 2016 Joseph Leiter Memorial Lecture, discusses the study of diseases that could jump from an animal host population to a human population, such as SARS and Ebola. It describes PREDICT: Wildlife SMART Surveillance for Zoonotic Diseases of Pandemic Potential, part of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and how to disseminate information to relevant agencies and groups to help prevent a pandemic or at least keep it smaller. (Video or Multimedia)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 6, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news