The global nature of the threat posed by new and reemerging infectious diseases will require international cooperation in identifying, controlling, and preventing these diseases. Because of this need for international cooperation, international law will certainly play a role in the global strategy for the control of emerging diseases. Recognizing this fact, the World Health Organization has alr...

Preparing a text about emerging and reemerging infections sounds like a contradiction in terms since by the time a book is published, “new” infections may have come and gone. But Lashley and Durham have successfully walked the thin line between being dated on the one hand and providing timely, relevant data on the other. Several chapters place emerging infections and related problems such as mi...

turns 10—a time probably between childhood and adolescence in journal years. All of us associated with the journal are very proud of this milestone, but at the same time we are aware of the need to continually assess progress toward original goals and make changes when and where needed. EID's genesis stems from advice to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) promulgated by the 19...

Emerging and neglected infections have proven to be highly lethal with mortality rates ranging from 10 to 80%. However, with a low incidence of disease, less public attention and support have been directed at these infections. Much more research is devoted to infections with a large public health impact, neglecting these potential diseases. Nonetheless, there are numerous infectious diseases wa...

His research interests include the molecular evolution and pathology of human RNA viruses, vaccine development, and the molecular epidemiology of viral hepatitis. Russia, the world's largest country, has a population of approximately 145 million and an area of 17,075 km 2 , encompassing 7 geographic, 10 time, and 3 climatic zones (1). This diversity, along with socioeconomic changes in the 1990...

Infectious diseases are now emerging or reemerging almost every year. This trend will continue because a number of factors, including the increased global population, aging, travel, urbanization, and climate change, favor the emergence, evolution, and spread of new pathogens. The approach used so far for emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) does not work from the technical point of view, and it ...

554 Many indigenous peoples are at higher risk for emerging infectious diseases compared to other populations. This conference panel focused on diseases of particular concern to Native Americans (American Indians and Alaska Natives), Australian aboriginal peoples, and the Maori of New Zealand. Important emerging diseases among these groups include respiratory tract infections, infections with a...

Although many who study emerging infections subscribe to social-production-of-disease theories, few have examined the contribution of social inequalities to disease emergence. Yet such inequalities have powerfully sculpted not only the distribution of infectious diseases, but also the course of disease in those affected. Outbreaks of Ebola, AIDS, and tuberculosis suggest that models of disease ...

In this issue, Kay et al report the first documented case of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD) in Hong Kong. The emergence in 1987 of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in British cattle followed by the first case of human nvCJD in 1996 ushered in political, economic, and social turbulence that exceeded the absolute amount of morbidity and mortality. Current epidemiological evid...

142 www.thelancet.com/infection Vol 9 March 2009 of patients—is supported by the observed increase in ODs seen in most of the samples that retested positive. Carry over of material from samples with high levels of toxin may also have contributed. Whatever the explanation for the above results (and in those cited in the Review), it is clear that more work is required before recommendations are m...