This has spurred the creation of new tools and new organizations, ramping up disease surveillance capacity significantly.
The Chinese government is actively investigating this outbreak and has heightened disease surveillance.
Bruno Petrucelli, director of epidemiology and disease surveillance for the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine.
The Chinese government has increased disease surveillance, infection prevention and control and communication between human and animal health and industry sectors.
Most disease surveillance is focused in the developed world, but the big killers often come from sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia.
The Nuclear Threat Initiative supports a groundbreaking surveillance system in the Middle East, called the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance.
That job involved building regional disease surveillance systems in the Mideast, something he now hopes can be built on a global scale.
At the Prince Mahidol Awards Conference in Bangkok this January, a new organization was launched called CORDS (Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance).
For several decades, the United States and Brazil have participated in a bilateral dialogue to discuss medical research, disease surveillance, and improving public health.
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Former President Jimmy Carter negotiated a cease-fire in 1995 to allow health workers to conduct national Guinea worm disease surveillance, treating patients and tracking cases.
Dr Angus Nicholl, director of the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, told BBC News Online there were some concerns that NHS laboratories had previously focussed on diagnostics rather than surveillance.
The Chinese government has stepped up its disease surveillance, and has advised people to maintain good personal hygiene, including frequent hand-washing and avoiding direct contact with sick or dead animals.
The Chinese government has stepped up its disease surveillance and is retrospectively testing any recently reported cases of severe respiratory infection, to check if any cases had not been recognised as H7N9.
"The cease-fire enabled us to conduct disease surveillance with the freedom of movement, not fearing land mines and getting shot, " said Dr. Nabil Azziz, who coordinated Sudan's national Guinea worm eradication program until 2007.
Clinton of the National Electronic Disease Surveillance Network.
Made up of six regional disease surveillance networks in the Middle East, Southern and East Africa, South East Asia and Eastern Europe (each of which are in turn partnerships of several national health ministries), CORDS has the potential to speed best practices and help innovate rapid disease detection and response.
She wants the government to do much more to develop national pharmaceutical and vaccine stockpiles and to improve disease-surveillance systems.
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Unlike at the end of the first world war, there is now a global disease-surveillance system which would sound the alarm if H5N1 showed signs of being able to pass from person to person.
The city-state maintains a strict disease and mosquito surveillance regime, as well as tough penalties for residents who fail to clear mosquito-breeding sites in their homes.
In the wake of SARS, the government in 2004 set up a new center focused on disease control, including better surveillance and diagnostic systems.
However, poor countries in Asia, such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos, lack the veterinary facilities for surveillance of the disease in animals, the laboratories to test samples and the ability to respond swiftly to eradicate outbreaks.
Researchers at the University of Iowa, studying the 2009 swine flu pandemic, compared fluctuations in the use of certain phrases on Twitter with flu cases reported through the US Centre for Disease Control, which has its own sophisticated flu surveillance system.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey 2004, more than 70% of adult Milwaukeeans reported that they had had at least one alcoholic drink within the past 30 days--the highest percentage on our list.
Without fundamental changes in farming and radical improvements in port surveillance, we remain at high risk of new disease outbreaks every day.
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