[Comment] Infectious diseases in China in the post-SARS era

The epidemiology and comparative burden of communicable diseases determines which diseases warrant public health resources and intervention. In a country as large as China, identification of the communicable diseases causing the greatest burden and the population groups most affected by specific diseases is a massive, and very important, undertaking. In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Shigui Yang and colleagues report surveillance data for communicable diseases in China over a 10-year period (2004 –13), covering a population of 1·3 billion people and incorporating nearly 55 million notified cases of 45 infectious diseases.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: Comment Source Type: research