The pathogens on this list also disseminate with moderate ease and, say health officials, «require specific enhancements for diagnostic capacity» in order to identify them rapidly — a level of readiness we simply don't have for many new infectious diseases. (fortune.com)
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, for instance, is funding 50 top researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley to collaborate in a rented Bay area lab to identify new infectious disease agents. (aaas.org)
Human interference with ecosystems has been found to cause a number of new infectious diseases such as SARS, Ebola virus, Nipah virus, Bird flu and Hantavirus. (earthtimes.org)