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"Ruth Berkelman the task of formulating plans for surveillance and rapid response to emerging diseases. For a year and a half Berkelman coordinated an exhaustive effort, identifying weaknesses in CDC systems and outlining a new, improved system of disease surveillance and response. Berkelman and her collaborators discovered a long list of serious weaknesses and flaws in the CDC's domestic surveillance system and determined that international monitoring was so haphazard as to be nonexistent." - Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly emerging diseases in a World Out of Balance (Get the book.) "Henderson, who had once led efforts to eradicate smallpox, told the Geneva gathering that "there is a growing belief that mankind's well-being, and perhaps even our survival as a species, will depend on our ability to detect emerging diseases. . . . Where would we be today if HIV were to become an airborne pathogen? And what is there to say that a comparable infection might not do so in the future?" Years earlier, Karl Johnson had voiced darker concerns." - Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly emerging diseases in a World Out of Balance (Get the book.) "Human activities that didn't seem amenable to positive change were, by the 1990s, playing significant roles in the spread and possible creation of emerging diseases. Between 1980 and 1989, for example, the number of refugees fleeing natural disasters, wars, famine, or oppression increased by 75 percent every year. By the end of 1992, according to the United Nations, 17.5 million Homo sapiens were refugees, most of them living in squalor in the world's poorest countries. Thirdworldization had set in all over the globe." - Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly emerging diseases in a World Out of Balance (Get the book.) "As issues of emerging diseases drew greater attention within the scientific community, theoretical debates centered on key questions: How likely was it that a previously unknown microbe would suddenly appear out of some stressed ecosphere? What were the odds that a fundamentally new pathogenic organism would emerge, the result either of recombination among other microbes or of large-scale mutation? Was it likely that old, well-understood microbes might successfully mutate into more dangerous forms?" - Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly emerging diseases in a World Out of Balance (Get the book.)

"In May of 2000 Detwiler, Rubenstein, and a colleague, Elizabeth Williams, wrote a paper about TSEs for the journal emerging diseases of Animals: "The diagnosis of BSE is based on the occurrence of clinical signs of the disease and currently is confirmed by postmortem histopathological examination of brain tissue." None of Mr. Freeman's (or our) animals ever exhibited clinical symptoms. The paper continued: Studies conducted in the Netherlands and the United States indicate that IHC appears to be useful in detecting scrapie in preclinical sheep." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"The story of the onset and rapid dispersion of West Nile virus in the United States chillingly illustrates our vulnerability to emerging diseases from abroad, and points out the many weaknesses in our current system for detecting such foreign agents. Deaths were limited in New York City's West Nile outbreak in part because, through sheer luck, capable, persistent people were in just the right places at the right time. It was good luck, for example, that Asnis called Layton to report what, at the time, were only two odd cases. Asnis was much more conscientious than many doctors." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) "To hasten communication about outbreaks—and thus improve our early-warning system—we've got to train physicians to better understand the symptoms they should be on the lookout for, and licensing boards should require more systematic, ongoing physician education about emerging diseases. Up-to-date knowledge does no good, however, if doctors are not more responsible about reporting patient cases. In New York City, doctors are supposed to report any of fifty-three diseases, but assistant health commissioner Marci Layton knows she hears about only a fraction of them." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"AIDS, Lyme disease, and other emerging diseases discovered only in recent decades have created new medical battlefields. So, too, has the growing resistance of ever-mutating germs to antibiotics; physicians have few weapons to combat once-treatable organisms such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, sl major cause of bacterial pneumonia. People are living longer, resulting in a growing incidence of arthritis, Alzheimer s disease, congestive heart failure, and other diseases of the elderly." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

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