Emerging Diseases

CDC Goes Online Worldwide with Electronic Quarterly

Published in Blood Weekly, February 27th, 1995

Veteran U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) microbiologist Joseph McDade has been named to edit Emerging Diseases, a new quarterly scientific journal and innovative venture in electronic publishing.

To keep pace with the rapid emergence of deadly new pathogens, the agency is taking to the Internet with the first publication to specialize in new diseases - nasty, exotic new afflictions that run the gamut from Brazilian hemorrhagic fever to cat scratch disease. It is also the first CDC-produced research publication since the agency took over the now widely quoted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) 31 years ago.

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