Etiology

Researchers Key in on Wild Primate Populations as Models for Infectious Disease

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 30th, 1998

Studies of infectious diseases in wild primate populations may provide the missing link between laboratory studies of infectious diseases and early disease detection, identification, surveillance, and control, said researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Wildlife Conservation Society.

They discuss the idea in an article in the April 1998 issue of the Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a publication of the CDC ("Wild Primate Populations in Emerging Infectious Disease Research: The Missing Link'" EID, April 1998).

Because humans and non-human primates have similar...

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