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Protecting the Nation’s Health in an Era of Globalization: CDC’s Global Infectious Disease Strategy
Protecting the Nation’s Health in an Era of Globalization: CDC’s Global Infectious Disease Strategy
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Since 1994, CDC has been engaged in a nationwide effort to revitalize
national capacity to protect the public from infectious disease. Progress continues to be made in the areas of disease surveillance and outbreak response; applied research; prevention and control; and infrastructure-building and training. These efforts are intended to provide protection against endemic diseases like tuberculosis and hepatitis C, as well as against whatever new or drug-resistant diseases arise.
Although safeguarding U.S. health is a domestic goal, its achievement requires
international action and cooperation. This is because U.S. health and global
health are inextricably linked. As the AIDS epidemic has illustrated, a disease
that emerges or reemerges anywhere in the world can spread far and wide. With increased rates of air travel and international trade, infectious microbes have many opportunities to spread across borders, whether carried by businessmen and tourists, by mosquitos that “hitchhike” on airplanes, or by exotic animals imported as pets or livestock. Microbes have additional opportunities for spread on international shipments of fruits, meats, fish, or vegetables. The international dimension of the effort to combat infectious diseases is reflected in CDC’s growing international role. Whenever a new, highly dangerous, drug-resistant, or reemerging disease is detected anywhere on the globe, U.S. citizens, as well as foreign governments, have come to rely on CDC to provide assistance and public health information. Established diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, as well as vaccine-preventable diseases such as polio, demand increasing attention and resources as well. This increased international engagement has stimulated CDC to rethink its infectious disease priorities, keeping in mind that it is far more effective to help other countries control or prevent dangerous diseases at their source than try to prevent their importation.
This document, Protecting the Nation’s Health in an Era of Globalization:
CDC’s Global Infectious Disease Strategy, represents an important advance in
defining CDC’s evolving global mission and in considering how CDC and its
international partners can work together to improve global capacity for disease
surveillance and outbreak response.
national capacity to protect the public from infectious disease. Progress continues to be made in the areas of disease surveillance and outbreak response; applied research; prevention and control; and infrastructure-building and training. These efforts are intended to provide protection against endemic diseases like tuberculosis and hepatitis C, as well as against whatever new or drug-resistant diseases arise.
Although safeguarding U.S. health is a domestic goal, its achievement requires
international action and cooperation. This is because U.S. health and global
health are inextricably linked. As the AIDS epidemic has illustrated, a disease
that emerges or reemerges anywhere in the world can spread far and wide. With increased rates of air travel and international trade, infectious microbes have many opportunities to spread across borders, whether carried by businessmen and tourists, by mosquitos that “hitchhike” on airplanes, or by exotic animals imported as pets or livestock. Microbes have additional opportunities for spread on international shipments of fruits, meats, fish, or vegetables. The international dimension of the effort to combat infectious diseases is reflected in CDC’s growing international role. Whenever a new, highly dangerous, drug-resistant, or reemerging disease is detected anywhere on the globe, U.S. citizens, as well as foreign governments, have come to rely on CDC to provide assistance and public health information. Established diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, as well as vaccine-preventable diseases such as polio, demand increasing attention and resources as well. This increased international engagement has stimulated CDC to rethink its infectious disease priorities, keeping in mind that it is far more effective to help other countries control or prevent dangerous diseases at their source than try to prevent their importation.
This document, Protecting the Nation’s Health in an Era of Globalization:
CDC’s Global Infectious Disease Strategy, represents an important advance in
defining CDC’s evolving global mission and in considering how CDC and its
international partners can work together to improve global capacity for disease
surveillance and outbreak response.
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