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About the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases.
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Jul 1998
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Source: Emerg Infect Dis. 4(3):353.
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Alternative Title:Emerg Infect Dis
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Description:More than 2,500 researchers, clinicians,laboratorians, veterinarians, and other publichealth professionals from all 50 states and morethan 70 countries convened in Atlanta on March8-11, 1998, for the International Conference onEmerging Infectious Diseases. The conference,organized by the Centers for Disease Control andPrevention (CDC), the Council of State andTerritorial Epidemiologists, the American Soci-ety for Microbiology, and the National Founda-tion for CDC along with 62 other cosponsors,1provided a forum for the exchange of ideas andpossible solutions to the problems of new andreemerging infectious diseases, including poten-tial threats presented by bioterrorism. Severalagencies and organizations sponsored satellitepartnership meetings on March 8 and March 12.
More than 85 sessions (12 plenary sessions, 17invited panels, 35 poster sessions, and late-breaking abstracts) were presented on surveil-lance, epidemiology, prevention, and control ofemerging infectious diseases, as well as emergencypreparedness and response and reemerging ordrug-resistant infectious diseases. Topics includedfoodborne diseases, infectious diseases transmittedby animals and insects, nosocomial infections,infections in immunocompromised patients andpersons outside the health-care system, infectious causes of chronic disease, blood safety, hostgenetics, vaccines, global climate change, andimmigration and travel.
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