ANTC68H3 Lecture Notes - Reston Virus, Hong Kong Hotel, Case Fatality Rate
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Lecture # 10 ebola, cjd & sars. Re-emerging diseases include heliobacter pylori, aids, ebola, lyme disease, mdr-tb, 1995: cdc created the journal emerging infectious disease to promote recognition of new diseases and dissemination of information to the scientific community. In canada, phac maintains a list of over 50 notifiable diseases. Notifiable diseases are those that must legally be reported to the government. Canada produces a weekly communicable disease report (ccdr) as well as fluwatch. The world health organization used to have a list of specific notifiiable diseases. Starting in 2005, the who changed their notification requirements. No longer about specific diseases, may include non-disease emergencies. Now, each member state defines an event that may constitute a public health emergency of international concern : group 1: smallpox, polio, human influenza from new subtype, sars, group 2: any other pheic that could become a pandemic. The cdc in the usa publishes the morbidity and mortality weekly report .
