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Lessons from COVID-19: Advancing Development of Universal Influenza Vaccines
From the Introduction: "For the past century, the modern pandemic experience was defined in large part by the global phenomenon of H1N1 influenza in 1918-20--a model now rapidly being revised, as COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] spreads unchecked across an interconnected world. Despite decades of warnings of the threat posed by emerging infectious diseases, humanity has proven tragically underprepared to defend itself against a novel pathogen. As we suffer the consequences of this collective failure of unheeded foresight and imagination, we must seek knowledge that will prepare us to better face future pandemic threats--including the certain emergence of a novel influenza virus."
Sabin Vaccine Institute
Knobler, Stacey; Howell, Cassidy; Malchione, Marissa . . .
2020-12-07
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Infectious Disease Movement in a Borderless World: Workshop Summary
"Modern transportation allows people, animals, and plants--and the pathogens they carry--to travel more easily than ever before. The ease and speed of travel, tourism, and international trade connect once-remote areas with one another, eliminating many of the geographic and cultural barriers that once limited the spread of disease. Because of our global interconnectedness through transportation, tourism and trade, infectious diseases emerge more frequently; spread greater distances; pass more easily between humans and animals; and evolve into new and more virulent strains. The IOM [Institute of Medicine]'s Forum on Microbial Threats hosted the workshop 'Globalization, Movement of Pathogens (and Their Hosts) and the Revised International Health Regulations' December 16-17, 2008 in order to explore issues related to infectious disease spread in a 'borderless' world. Participants discussed the global emergence, establishment, and surveillance of infectious diseases; the complex relationship between travel, trade, tourism, and the spread of infectious diseases; national and international policies for mitigating disease movement locally and globally; and obstacles and opportunities for detecting and containing these potentially wide-reaching and devastating diseases. This document summarizes the workshop."
National Academies Press (U.S.)
Relman, David A.; Choffnes, Eileen R.; Mack, Alison
2010
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Emerging Viral Diseases: The One Health Connection: Workshop Summary
From the Description on The National Academies Press website: "In the past half century, deadly disease outbreaks caused by novel viruses of animal origin - Nipah virus in Malaysia, Hendra virus in Australia, Hantavirus in the United States, Ebola virus in Africa, along with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), several influenza subtypes, and the SARS (sudden acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) coronaviruses - have underscored the urgency of understanding factors influencing viral disease emergence and spread. 'Emerging Viral Diseases' is the summary of a public workshop hosted in March 2014 to examine factors driving the appearance, establishment, and spread of emerging, re-emerging and novel viral diseases; the global health and economic impacts of recently emerging and novel viral diseases in humans; and the scientific and policy approaches to improving domestic and international capacity to detect and respond to global outbreaks of infectious disease. This report is a record of the presentations and discussion of the event."
National Academies Press (U.S.)
Choffnes, Eileen R.; Mack, Alison
2015
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Global Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection: Assessing the Challenges -- Finding Solutions, Workshop Summary
"Early detection is essential to the control of emerging, reemerging, and novel infectious diseases, including agents of bioterrorism. Containing the spread of such a disease in a profoundly interconnected world requires active vigilance for signs of an outbreak, rapid recognition of its presence, and diagnosis of its microbial cause, as well as strategies and resources for an appropriate and efficient response."
National Academies Press (U.S.)
Hamburg, Margaret A.; Lemon, Stanley M.; Sparling, P. Frederick . . .
2007
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