Teleconference of the Board of Scientific Counselors, Office of Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: August 19, 2014

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Infectious Diseases. Board of Scientific Counselors.
• Description:
  A 2-hour open teleconference of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC), Office of Infectious Diseases (OID), was held on August 19, 2014, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, Eastern Time. The meeting was announced in the Federal Register on July 29.
  
  The meeting included reports from the BSC/OID Antimicrobial Resistance Working Group, Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Surveillance Working Group, and Infectious Disease Laboratory Working Group, followed by updates on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the spread of chikungunya fever in the Americas, and the humanitarian crisis involving thousands of unaccompanied children entering the United States from Central America. A presentation was also provided on CDC’s intensified efforts to improve laboratory safety, following the recent laboratory incidents involving improper handling, transfer, and storage of select agents at CDC and other federal agencies
  
  Publication from document properties.
  
  20140419_BSCOID_Minutes.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases/prevention & Control Ebolavirus Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
• Keywords:
  Ebola Ebola Virus Ebola Virus Disease Orthoebolavirus
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publications
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions ; Global Health
• Pages in Document:
  9 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:53d9399a5a313d1369fb78960934ace3ef0c5b03fac77dd2989374eb1844bd6538d82d342410ceced4f7a2bed23d8c6caec3cbd29707d26b6787e1d3c43960e5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/45922/cdc_45922_DS1.pdf
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