NCEZID: Our Work, Our Stories 2011-2012
Extending our reach around the globe
Infectious diseases can be found everywhere, and NCEZID is engaged in preventing, tracking, detecting, and responding to outbreaks of infectious diseases throughout the United States and the world. Selected information and NCEZID activities are highlighted in this report.
The links below reference sections of NCEZID: Our Work, Our Stories 2011-2012 with information about extending our reach around the globe.
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Overview of NCEZID's work around the globe
Stories that spotlight specific topics around the globe
Antimicrobial resistance
Foodborne diseases
Fungal diseases
Global migration and quarantine
- Training trainers in Haiti to respond to cholera [page 38]
- Improving health for Kenya's refugees by building laboratory capacity [page 38]
- CDC quarantine officers defend against arriving health threats (quarantine stations) [page 83]
- Using new media to warn travelers about an old disease (traveler's health) [page 84]
- Protecting travelers during the Japanese nuclear disaster (traveler's health) [page 85]
Highly pathogenic organisms
- Sharing expertise to eliminate rabies abroad [page 37]
- Less is more—new hope for a neglected disease (rabies) [page 53]
- Using disease prevention know-how to reduce deadly Ebola [page 42]
- Hungry, hungry hippos (anthrax) [page 54]
- Zebras can have more than stripes (rabies) [page 80]
Vector-borne diseases
- Fighting a real-life "contagion" in the Marshall Islands (dengue) [page 19]
- The plague dipstick--bringing the laboratory to the bedside [page 25]
- Bigger than a bread box--a win-win solution for curbing plague in Uganda [page 55]
- A dangerous new virus knocking at our door (chikungunya) [page 77]
Waterborne diseases
- Paralysis in the desert—An unprecedented binational outbreak of Guillain-Barré syndrome (binational outbreak) [page 23]
- Training trainers in Haiti to respond to cholera [page 38]
- Improving health for Kenya's refugees by building laboratory capacity [page 38]
- Answering a call for help from Zambia (typhoid fever) [page 40]
- CDC's "Water Lab" leads quest to find V. cholerae in Haiti [page 87]
- Packaging prevention pays off (waterborne disease prevention package) [page 88]
Multiple areas / Other
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