Achieving sustainable global capacity for surveillance and response to emerging diseases of zoonotic origin
Subtitle: workshop report
By: Alexandra Beatty, Kimberly Scott, and Peggy Tsai, rapporteurs ; Committee on Achieving Sustainable Global Capacity for Surveillance and Response to Emerging Diseases of Zoonotic Origin, Board on Global Health Institute of Medicine ; Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources Division on Earth and Life Studies, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies.
Contributors: Beatty, Alexandra S.; Scott, Kimberly A.; Tsai, Peggy.; Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Achieving Sustainable Global Capacity for Surveillance and Response to Emerging Diseases of Zoonotic Origin.; Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Global Health.; National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9780309128186
Subjects: Communicable diseases -- Prevention -- Congresses; Epidemics -- Congresses; Zoonoses -- Congresses; Animals as carriers of disease -- Congresses; Public health surveillance -- Congresses; Environmental monitoring -- Congresses; Biosurveillance -- Congresses; Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- prevention & control -- Congresses; Communicable Disease Control -- Congresses; Disease Outbreaks -- Congresses; Zoonoses -- Congresses; Disease Vectors -- Congresses; Environmental Monitoring -- Congresses; Population Surveillance -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The convergence of forces responsible for zoonoses; title: 3. Current surveillance systems for detecting zoonoses in animals; title: 4. Diseases in humans: early warning systems; title: 5. Laboratory and epidemiological capacity; title: 6. Concluding participant discussions on facilitating communication and developing a globally sustainable surveillance system.