Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: tackling the challenge on a global level

Authors

  • Corrado De Vito Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  • Carolina Marzuillo Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  • Elvira D’Andrea Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  • Ferdinando Romano Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  • Paolo Villari Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2427/5636

Abstract

After the Second World War the general feeling was to have solved almost all the most important problems of dealing with infectious diseases. This feeling appeared to be appropriate and supported by the identification of new allies such as new antibiotics and vaccines. However, in 1991 the Institute of Medicine of the National Research Council in the US appointed a 19-member multidisciplinary expert committee to study the old and new microbial threats to health.

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Published

2011-03-31

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2011)

Section

Editorial