Recognising and tracking such health threats clearly requires accurate surveillance and active collaboration allows European surveillance networks to successfully follow regional trends and detect international outbreaks of concern and provide accurate data on which evidence-based travel health policies and recommendations can be made.
"The current outbreak is of concern to everyone," Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said at a news conference yesterday after briefing White House and Defense Department officials about the ailment.
Any nation with knowledge of a disease outbreak of international concern is obligated to report it to the WHO within 24 h.
While several variants of highly pathogenic avian influenza have been reported worldwide, poor management and initial denial of SARS in China made the H7H9 outbreak of particular concern [ 2].
These outbreaks are of concern, not only because of the degree of virulence observed in poultry resulting in severe economic consequences, but also due to the potential transmission to mammalian species, including humans.
Except that they just had a kind of violent outbreak of citizens concerned about their country's policies regarding foreigners.
According to the United States Agriculture Department, this country did not allow the import of chickens or their meat from Asia even before the current outbreak because of concerns that the exotic Newcastle disease, another threat to birds, might start to infect American chicken farms.
For example, across 397 outbreaks of international concern, as classified by the World Health Organization, nearly 40% were attributed to 1 driver: lack of public health infrastructure (2 ).
Such arguments became especially salient as the 2002 2003 SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak, 2009 influenza pandemic, and other disease outbreaks of international concern, emphasized the trans-boundary nature of health risks in a globalising world.
