Emerging Infectious Disease (EID) Research, Management and Response

Dear Colleagues,

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) pose increasingly serious public health threats. To equip the public health community to address such threats, this Special Issue seeks to offer guidance to improve the analysis, surveillance and response to emerging diseases. In particular, we are interested in papers concerning new infections from existing organisms, known infections in new spatial locations, previously undocumented infections or antimicrobial resistance contributing to the re-emergence of infection. We seek to establish and strengthen national and regional public health systems and capacities to ensure public health security through preparedness planning, prevention, early detection and rapid response to EIDs and public health emergencies. EIDs currently account for more than a tenth of human pathogens and vector-borne diseases adjust continually to environmental changes (such as climatic factors) in complex, multifaceted and poorly understood ways. This Special Issue deals with the above matters, as well as the potentially catastrophic synergistic interaction between emerging diseases and other infectious and non-infectious conditions leading to novel health risks. Of particular concern is the identification of risk factors contributing to disease emergence, including a lack of public sanitation, microbial adaption, changing human susceptibility, changing human demographics and grade, economic development, bioterrorism, dam and irrigation system construction, and global climate change.

Dr. Jason K. Levy
Guest Editor

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