Prospects for Emerging Infections in East and Southeast Asia 10 Years after Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Horby, Peter W, ; Pfeiffer, Dirk ; Oshitani, Hitoshi
• Description:
  It is 10 years since severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) emerged, and East and Southeast Asia retain a reputation as a hot spot of emerging infectious diseases. The region is certainly a hot spot of socioeconomic and environmental change, and although some changes (e.g., urbanization and agricultural intensification) may reduce the probability of emerging infectious diseases, the effect of any individual emergence event may be increased by the greater concentration and connectivity of livestock, persons, and products. The region is now better able to detect and respond to emerging infectious diseases than it was a decade ago, but the tools and methods to produce sufficiently refined assessments of the risks of disease emergence are still lacking. Given the continued scale and pace of change in East and Southeast Asia, it is vital that capabilities for predicting, identifying, and controlling biologic threats do not stagnate as the memory of SARS fades.
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Animals Commerce Communicable Diseases, Emerging Ecosystem Epidemiological Monitoring Global Health History, 21St Century Humans Livestock Perspective Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Travel Urbanization

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 19(6):853-860.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Asia, Southeastern
• Location:
  Asia
• Volume:
  19
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3d2c414a18ae7fca40dae19129b31cd7efb58821fba85aa07aff2ef30144eaa4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/19039/cdc_19039_DS1.pdf
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