Infectious disease outbreaks emerging

Cummings, K., Barrett, E., Mohle-Boetani, J.C., Brooks, J.T., Farrar, J., Hunt, T., Fiore, A., Komatsu, K., Werner, S.B. and Slutsker, L. (2001) A multistate outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype Baildon associated with domestic raw tomatoes . Emerging Infectious Diseases, 7, 1046-1048. 

Freitas, G. D., Nobrega, A. A., Romano, A. P., Costa, E. G., Tinoco, J. M., Pontes, M. D., Leite, L. S., and Sobel, J. (2008). Novel food implicated in an outbreak of orally-transmitted acute Chagas disease in an Urban area of the Amazon Region, Brazil, 2007. Abstract published in the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases (ICEID)— Program and Abstracts Book, Atlanta, GA, USA. p. 121. 

Has primary responsibility for public health and medical emergency planning, preparations and response to a naturally occurring outbreak from an emerging infectious disease and its own authority to declare a public health emergency. 

Reingold, A. L. (1998). Outbreak investigation—A perspective. [Electronic version.] Emerging Infectious Diseases, 4(1), 21-27. 

Emerging infectious diseases are a constant challenge to the public health system and may be the cause of a disease outbreak disaster resulting in high morbidity and mortality. 

On the latter see M. Wheelis, Investigating disease outbreaks under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, in Emerging Infectious Diseases, 6 (6), 2000, 595-600. 

In recent years, newly emerging infectious diseases have complicated the picture. They include AIDS, prion disorders, and several hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola. These diseases and the possible reduction in immunocompetence have fostered an increased role of the United States and international agencies in monitoring disease outbreaks. 

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