NIAID Director Highlights Lessons From 3 Decades Of Responding To Infectious Disease Outbreaks

NIH: Three decades of responding to infectious disease outbreaks
“…In an essay in Annals of Internal Medicine published online [Tuesday], [Anthony S. Fauci, director of the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),] reflects on the ways efforts have been marshaled to address infectious disease outbreaks of the past three decades. … The essay also considers how presidential administrations have responded to the appearance of pathogens ranging from West Nile virus and Ebola to, most recently, the arrival of Zika virus in the Americas…” (11/14).

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