"Stemming overdose deaths will take a broad interagency approach led by someone with a singular focus and extensive knowledge of the drivers of and solutions to the epidemic," former ONDCP official Regina LaBelle told BuzzFeed News.
By contrast, in endemic areas in Bangladesh and former Bengal, two epidemic peaks occur each year corresponding to the warm seasons before and after the monsoonal rains [ 11, 17].
The HIV epidemic among former plasma donors (FPDs) in rural Central China in the early-mid 1990s is likely the largest known HIV-infected cohort in the world related to commercial plasma donation but has never been fully described.
The earliest report linked serologic evidence of HEV in rats near a village in the former Soviet Union with an epidemic of hepatitis E in the village (20 ).
"We do have experienced people there, and it's fairly remote which usually limits the spread of these outbreaks," said Shahpar, who is now the director of preventing epidemics at former CDC Director Tom Frieden's Resolve to Save Lives initiative.
Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of the overall United Nations AIDS program, warned recently that an even larger epidemic in the former Soviet countries "may be imminent".
He foresaw a similar possibility in parts of the former Soviet Union, where a spreading epidemic could lead countries to "become even more dominated by narco-traffickers and organized criminals".
"It will be next week when people start to go back to work and to school that we will, I suspect, see the sharpest rise, when we will really see this become the children's epidemic," said Field, former chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
She was also a founding adviser of the Interact Club at Hoover High School, a founder of Glendale Leaders for AIDS Awareness during the height of the AIDS epidemic and a former board member of the Glendale YWCA.
Moreover, there are scarce data about the impact of tobacco control measures on smoking outcomes and smoking inequalities in former Soviet republics where tobacco epidemic is following a somewhat different pattern that it took in the West [ 22].
