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Monitoring of Emerging Infectious Diseases Provides Early Warnings

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 4th, 1996

A global system that allows for early warning, communications, diagnosis, prevention and control could greatly limit the public health threats of illness and death that emerging diseases pose, says Stephen S. Morse, Ph.D., assistant professor of virology at the Rockefeller University, New York, New York.

"An infection appearing anywhere in the world could span entire continents within days or weeks, yet no global system of communications, clinical facilities and laboratory currently exists," says Morse, who plans to discuss global surveillance and an Internet-based communications system at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,...

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