Response infectious disease outbreaks

An example of an international surveillance network is the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN WHO, 2006). The GOARN, which is overseen by WHO, includes f20 networks and institutions in WHO member nations and provides electronic data on infectious disease outbreaks around the world. 

For healthcare personnel, transient, pathogenic microorganisms are the more significant. Contaminant microorganisms are responsible for infectious disease outbreaks passed from healthcare personnel to patients via hand contact. For an antimicrobial product to be effective, it should afford both immedi-... 

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. 

The states and provinces are working to develop a round-the-clock response protocol for early warning infectious disease surveillance and information sharing including appropriate contacts in all jurisdictions, and to develop a memorandum of understanding for infectious disease surveillance information sharing, such as the EPI-X system that alerts epidemiologists to outbreaks. 

The interpretation of experimentally derived infected/vaccinated antibody response must be done carefully. The particular strain of organism, route of exposure, and dose are just a few variables that may stimulate an antibody response be that is quantitatively and qualitatively atypical of natural infection in the target population. The same is true of vaccination. Therefore, it is essential that experimentally induced antibody responses are relevant to those occurring in natural outbreaks of disease caused by the same infectious agent, otherwise the estimates of relative D-SN and D-SP may be in error. Because of the difficulty of equivalence in responses of naturally infected and experimentally infected/vaccinated animals, the relative D-SN and D-SP data derived from such animals should be considered as an adjunct criterion and should not be used alone to determine a new assay s relative D-SN and D-SP. 

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