The lab was designed and constructed with French assistance as part of a 2004 cooperative agreement on the prevention and control
of emerging infectious diseases.
The perspective concludes that modern vaccine technology and improved surveillance in developing countries ultimately can help us better prepare
for emerging infectious disease threats.
Following the largest Ebola epidemic in history last year, which claimed the lives of more than 11,000 people in West Africa and ultimately spread to the U.S., public health officials remain concerned about healthcare workers contracting Ebola or other
emerging infectious diseases such as SARS and pandemic influenza, says Rachael Jones, UIC associate professor of environmental and occupational and health sciences, one of four co-investigators at UIC.
«It will certainly lead to boring names and a lot of confusion,» predicts Linfa Wang, an expert
on emerging infectious diseases at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong.
Following the largest Ebola epidemic in history last year, which claimed the lives of more than 11,000 people in West Africa and ultimately spread to the U.S., public health officials remain concerned about healthcare workers contracting Ebola or
other emerging infectious diseases such as SARS and pandemic influenza.
During a naled campaign in Puerto Rico in the 1980s, farmers complained the chemical was hurting their bee population, according to
emerging infectious disease expert Duane Gubler, who oversaw the program.
The Essay, which is authored by an international group of leaders of public and private research institutions, non-governmental organizations, and academic groups from Europe, China, India, and South Africa, highlights how a market - led research and development system has failed to deliver innovative new tools to respond to major health challenges,
including emerging infectious diseases such as Ebola, anti-microbial resistance, and neglected diseases.
His work ranges from evolutionary medicine and ecological immunology (including hormone - mediated immunity) to global / One health and travel medicine (specifically
preventing emerging infectious diseases from wild primates).
The UIC Epicenter for Prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections will study how healthcare workers can care for patients
with emerging infectious diseases without putting themselves at risk.
Zoetis announced on October 27 a new network to identify and quickly
address emerging infectious diseases in livestock and companion animals, and enhance the ability to rapidly respond and help control them.
Genome sequencing has become a powerful tool for
studying emerging infectious diseases; however, genome sequencing directly from clinical samples without isolation remains challenging for viruses such as Zika, where metagenomic sequencing methods may generate insufficient numbers of viral reads.
Moreover, the region has seen
new emerging infectious diseases such as the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, in which patients develop severe acute respiratory illness.
«The Army was able to move so quickly in developing, manufacturing and testing a Zika vaccine because of its extensive experience with this vaccine platform and long standing investments in the understanding and mitigation of flaviviruses, like yellow fever, dating back to the founding of WRAIR,» said Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad, Zika program co-lead and associate director for
Emerging Infectious Disease Threats at WRAIR's MHRP.
«The recommendations, such as for a disease specific
emerging infectious disease strategy and to support the UK Vaccine Research and Development Network, are solutions to specific problems.
Not only do we offer the best molecular and serology test options available, but we spend a significant amount of time working with researchers and clinicians around the world to generate new knowledge
about emerging infectious diseases such as bartonellosis, borreliosis and other vector - borne infections.
Over the last 50 years CSIRO has saved and will continue to save Australian agriculture billions of dollars in impacts and reduced environmental degradation from nationally
important emerging infectious diseases.
They may address the connections between animal and human health (
e.g. emerging infectious diseases such as avian influenza), agriculture, or security issues involving safety of the food supply.
Morse is credited with creating the
term emerging infectious diseases in the late 1980s to explain viruses that can exist for years in an animal host without causing illness.
The rise of modern, deadly plagues such as AIDS and SARS is particularly devastating because the «golden age of immunization during the last half century gave us a sense of triumphalism about infectious diseases,» says Stephen S. Morse, a Columbia University biologist and cofounder of ProMed, a global program for
monitoring emerging infectious diseases.
«There are significant uncertainties about
how emerging infectious diseases are transmitted, and how easy it is to become infected with these diseases, making it difficult to evaluate the risk to healthcare workers and other patients,» Jones said.
More to the point, by genetically stripping dengue virus of its ability to bind 14 -3-3 epsilon, Gack has generated a crippled virus that can elicit a strong human immune response, providing a framework for rational vaccine design
against emerging infectious diseases.
NIAID's biodefense research is integrated into its larger emerging and re ‐
emerging infectious diseases portfolio that uses sophisticated genomic and proteomic platforms focused on developing broad ‐ spectrum therapies effective against entire classes of pathogens.
This collaboration forms a part of Zoetis» European and global efforts to
combat emerging infectious diseases in animals and will work with veterinarians and other researchers throughout Europe and beyond.
Mullins, G., Jagne, J., Stone, L., Konings, E., Howard - Grabman, L., Hartman, F., Fulton, M. (2010) «One World One Health» in practice: Integrating public health and veterinary curricula
on emerging infectious diseases in Africa.
The Golden Retriever Lifetime Study is a great opportunity to look closely at infectious disease patterns over time, including emerging infectious diseases
Blood - sucking flies can act as «flying syringes» to
detect emerging infectious diseases in wild animals before they spread to humans, according to research published in the journal eLife.
Given the urgency associated
with emerging infectious disease, it is always our goal to respond as quickly as possible with effective solutions,» said Shelley Stanford, DVM, Group Director, Companion Animal Division Veterinary Professional Services, Zoetis.
«Being able to track the duration of fevers and the return of fevers could help us learn more about an influenza season as it is emerging and possibly provide information about other infections, including
new emerging infectious diseases,» Polgreen says.
Much else could be written about health in the Asian Century, including the need to implement a sophisticated surveillance and control system
for emerging infectious diseases.