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Achieving sustainable global capacity for surveillance and response to emerging diseases of zoonotic origin : workshop report

Title
  1. Achieving sustainable global capacity for surveillance and response to emerging diseases of zoonotic origin : workshop report / 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.
Published by
  1. Washington, DC : National Academies Press, 2008.

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Additional authors
  1. Beatty, Alexandra S.
  2. Scott, Kimberly A. (Senior program officer)
  3. Tsai, Peggy.
  4. Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Achieving Sustainable Global Capacity for Surveillance and Response to Emerging Diseases of Zoonotic Origin.
  5. Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Global Health.
  6. National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Description
  1. xxi, 129 pages : illustrations, color maps; 23 cm
Subject
  1. Communicable diseases > Prevention > Congresses
  2. Epidemics > Congresses
  3. Zoonoses > Congresses
  4. Animals as carriers of disease > Congresses
  5. Public health surveillance > Congresses
  6. Environmental monitoring > Congresses
  7. Biosurveillance
  8. Communicable Diseases, Emerging > prevention & control
  9. Communicable Disease Control
  10. Disease Outbreaks
  11. Zoonoses
  12. Disease Vectors
  13. Environmental Monitoring
  14. Population Surveillance
Genre/Form
  1. Congress.
Contents
  1. 1. Introduction -- 2. The convergence of forces responsible for zoonoses -- 3. Current surveillance systems for detecting zoonoses in animals -- 4. Diseases in humans: early warning systems -- 5. Laboratory and epidemiological capacity -- 6. Concluding participant discussions on facilitating communication and developing a globally sustainable surveillance system.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Additional formats (note)
  1. Also available via the World Wide Web.