The information shortfall is slowing scientists' investigation into an emerging epidemic when time is critical.
David, M. Z. & Daum, R. S. Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: epidemiology and clinical consequences of an emerging epidemic.
It could be extended to allow access to international experts, for example, while the stored anonymised conversations could be analysed to identify trends such as an emerging epidemic.
The U.S. population is plagued by physical inactivity, lack of cardiorespiratory fitness, and sedentary lifestyles, all of which are strongly associated with the emerging epidemic of chronic disease.
A big advance in this emerging epidemic is that no nation seems to have covered up the problem as China did in 2002-2003 when its secrecy slowed the response to SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.
"More than 100 million people are exposed to underground water with high concentrations of arsenic," said the study's lead author, Dr. Chih-Hao Wang, who called the problem "an emerging epidemic".
In two papers being published Saturday in the British Medical Journal, researchers from China, Britain and the United States draw the outlines of China's emerging epidemic with countless statistics.
The efficacy of containment strategies deployed in the case of an emerging epidemic threat will depend on the epidemiological features of the pathogen in question, as well as availability of pharmaceutical interventions, if any.
Cesarean section delivery among primiparous women in rural China: an emerging epidemic.
In response to the emerging epidemic of obesity in the United States, a renewal of interest in alternative diets has occurred, especially in diets that limit carbohydrate intake.
Arsenic was identified as a possible etiological factor for the newly emerging epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown origin (CKDu), a tubulo-interstitial nephritis among paddy farmers in dry zone of Sri Lanka (Jayasumana et al. 2013; 2013).
