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Academic, government and commercial researchers must cooperate to slow and stop emerging epidemics of drug-resistant micro-organisms.
Better surveillance systems inevitably mean that there will be more false alarms, with potential epidemics that never take off, but that is a small price to pay if we are better prepared to tackle emerging epidemics before they become uncontrollable.
Lillian Kidane, director of Healthymagination Africa, General Electric Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Incorporate big data into idea development: Use data mining to find prevention strategies for emerging epidemics and NCDs.
David Cameron is to call for the creation of an international rapid response team of epidemiologists to be deployed at short notice anywhere in the world to advise on how to overcome emerging epidemics.
It is no coincidence that Ebola emerged in places Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone whose health systems are a joke.Besides helping people in immediate need, health systems act as early-warning beacons for emerging epidemics.
Besides dealing with Ebola directly, there will be lots of talk, and at least some action, about building a better system to detect emerging epidemics, and to suppress those that do break out.
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The information shortfall is slowing scientists' investigation into an emerging epidemic when time is critical.
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.
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".
The WHO, notoriously slow off the mark when it came to Ebola, is widely regarded as too ponderous and bureaucratic to react with the speed needed to nip an emerging epidemic in the bud.
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