Methods to mitigate the impacts of emerging infectious diseases affecting wildlife are urgently needed to combat loss of biodiversity. However, the successful mitigation of wildlife pathogens in situ has rarely occurred. Indeed, most strategies for combating wildlife diseases remain theoretical, despite the wealth of information available for combating infections in livestock and crops. Here, w...

Trading blocs realize the strategic importance of and threats from emerging infections, particularly those related to travel and food. Like the European Union, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is undertaking an initiative in emerging infections. The APEC Emerging Infections Network project builds on an existing Internet-based educational network (APEC EduNet), created to help link A...

The burden of disease framework facilitates the assessment of the health impact of diseases through the use of summary measures of population health such as Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). However, calculating, interpreting and communicating the results of studies using this methodology poses a challenge. The aim of the Burden of Communicable Disease in Europe (BCoDE) project is to summ...

The past quarter century has seen an unprecedented increase in the number of new and emerging infectious diseases throughout the world, with serious implications for human and wildlife populations. We examined host persistence in the face of introduced vector-borne diseases in Hawaii, where introduced avian malaria and introduced vectors have had a negative impact on most populations of Hawaiia...

1 Liver Research Group, School of Clinical Medical Sciences & School of Clinical and Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; 2 Department of Infectious Diseases, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; 3 Hepatology Centre, St James Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; 4 Institute for Aging and Health, School of Neurology, Neuroscien...

Leonard A. Mermel, Michael Allon, Emilio Bouza, Donald E. Craven, Patricia Flynn, Naomi P. O’Grady, Issam I. Raad, Bart J. A. Rijnders, Robert J. Sherertz, and David K. Warren Division of Infectious Diseases, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; University of Alabama-Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama; Tufts University School of Medicine, Lahey Clini...

For many years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local health departments have investigated and controlled outbreaks of foodborne diseases and conducted limited passive surveillance for specific foodborne pathogens. However, recent changes in the food supply and in the consuming public have changed the type and range of infections caused by food and have made t...

Emerging infectious diseases represent a grave threat to animal and human populations in terms of their impact on global health, agriculture and the economy. Vaccines developed for emerging infections in animals can protect animal health and prevent transmission of zoonotic diseases to humans. Examples in this paper illustrate how industry and public health can collaborate to develop a vaccine ...

health for centuries. The Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health believes that this threat will continue and may even intensify in coming years” (1). Thus begins the Institute of Medicine’s 1992 Report on Emerging Infections. The Institute of Medicine indicated that “emergence may be due to the introduction of a new agent, to the recognition of an existing dis...