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Planning and response

Emerging diseases: ready and waiting?

This site provides a collection of papers from a high level think-tank forum on emerging infectious diseases, hosted by the Australian Academy of Sciences in 2004.

The papers have been contributed by top experts across the government, research and the private sectors, and cover a range of issues on planning for, and responding to emerging infectious diseases (EID), including:
- Potential impacts on human, animal and plant health
- Coordination requirements and implications
- Case studies on SARS, Avian Flu and other EIDs

Resource link:
http://www.science.org.au/ events/emergingdiseases/index.htm
Published: 2004
Source: Australian Academy of Science (http://www.science.org.au)
Added to ADG on: 11 March 2008 , contributed by: ADG team
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