Infectious Disease

Public Health Genetics Crucial to Treatment, Expert Says

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, October 17th, 2000

New discoveries in what is being called "Public Health Genetics" will be crucial in harnessing genetics technologies to track emerging infectious diseases and improve their diagnosis, treatment and prevention, a scientist at the U.S. National Institutes of Health said.

In a presentation on September 26, 2000, at the Pan American Health Organization's Directing Council, a meeting of all health ministers of the Americas, Dr. Gerald T. Keusch, of the NIH Fogarty International Center, said, "The new genetics in the next two decades will create new specialties to be applied at the population level, to promote expression of 'health' genes and inhibit expression of 'disease'...

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