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What You Need To Know About Infectious Disease
Prevention & Treatment
International Cooperation
National borders are trivial impediments to infectious disease threats. In the highly interconnected and readily traversed global village of our time, one nation’s problem soon becomes every nation’s problem. Therefore, strategies must be implemented worldwide, not just nationally, in order to have a true impact.
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What do you know about infectious disease?
About how many airline passengers cross international borders daily?
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An estimated 1.8 million airline passengers cross international borders daily, creating routes by which human infections can radiate around the world within hours.
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An estimated 1.8 million airline passengers cross international borders daily, creating routes by which human infections can radiate around the world within hours.
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An estimated 1.8 million airline passengers cross international borders daily, creating routes by which human infections can radiate around the world within hours.
Infectious Disease Defined
- Natural Selection
The process by which certain heritable traits that contribute to the survival and reproductive success of an organism become more widespread within a population over successive generations.
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Source Material
- Infectious Disease Movement in a Borderless World—Workshop Summary (2010)
- Global Issues in Water, Sanitation, and Health—Workshop Summary (2009)
- Sustaining Global Surveillance and Response to Emerging Zoonotic Diseases (2009)
- The U.S. Commitment to Global Health: Recommendations for the Public and Private Sectors (2009)
- Achieving Sustainable Global Capacity for Surveillance and Response to Emerging Diseases of Zoonotic Origin—Workshop Summary (2008)
- Global Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection: Assessing the Challenges, Finding Solutions—Workshop Summary (2007)
- Saving Lives, Buying Time: Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of Resistance (2004)
