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?
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4th Ditan International Conference on Infectious Diseases (4th DICID)|The article of record as published may be found at https://doi.org/10.1016/S1201-9712(10)60310-4