Abstract
Improving Biosurveillance Systems to Enable Situational Awareness During Public Health Emergencies.
Highlights
Over the past 10 years, US health security has been threatened by a series of infectious disease events: the 2009 influenza outbreak, the emergence of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and the rapid spread of Zika virus throughout the Americas
What the past decade has shown us is that the continued occurrence of infectious disease events is all but inevitable
Political leaders will have little information to guide decisions about what measures should be taken to ensure that small outbreaks don’t go on to become costly epidemics and what measures would be likely to exacerbate the toll of the event
Summary
Over the past 10 years, US health security has been threatened by a series of infectious disease events: the 2009 influenza outbreak, the emergence of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and the rapid spread of Zika virus throughout the Americas. The continued challenge that the United States faces in detecting and knowing how best to respond to acute infectious disease threats like Zika should encourage a closer analysis of our current biosurveillance capabilities and spur action toward much-needed, sustainable improvements.
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