Towards effective emerging infectious diseases surveillance in Cambodia and Indonesia

Abstract

Objectives: Emerging Infectious Diseases pose a new international security threats because of the potential to inflict harm upon humans, crops, livestock, health infrastructure, and economies. H1N1’s impact on the Mexican economy in 2009, for example, has been estimated at almost 1% of Gross Domestic Product. What are the cultural, political, and economic challenges to obtaining the necessary (or desirable) infrastructure to translate common determinants into effective zoonotic virus surveillance?