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Epidemiological Alerts Archives, 2003–2008
(Note: Series renamed, formerly EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas.)
The purpose of these alerts is to disseminate information on the latest public-health events that have been identified as risks to health, trade, and/or international travel. Most of these events are primarily due to infectious agents, while others are due to chemical or physical agents. The PAHO Epidemiological Alerts published at the regional level (for the Americas) complement the WHO Disease Outbreak News published at the global level. The latest issues can be found at the new site, 2009 onwards.
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Featured General Items

Almost a quarter of all disease caused by environmental exposure
As much as 24% of global disease is caused by environmental exposures which can be averted. Well-targeted interventions can prevent much of this environmental risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) demonstrates in a report issued today. The report further estimates that more than 33% of disease in children under the age of 5 is caused by environmental exposures. WHO report Preventing disease through healthy environments: Towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease
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Food Safety and Foodborne Illness (WHO Fact Sheet No. 237)

Foodborne Diseases, Emerging (WHO Fact Sheet No. 124)

Drug-Resistant Salmonella (WHO Fact Sheet No. 139)

Antimicrobial Resistance (WHO Fact Sheet No. 194)

Fact Sheets

Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO

Partnerships to Contain Antimicrobial Resistance in South America: An Integrated Approach

PAHO Regional Program on Food Safety: Working to Prevent and Control Food-Borne Diseases

Regional Program on Antimicrobial Resistance: Combatting Resistance to Antibiotics in the Americas

Related Sites

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

WHO, List of Links on Communicable Diseases (by topic)

WHO Disease Outbreak News

WHO Global Strategy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance

PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centers

PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centers in the Area of Food Safety

Networks

Third Joint Meeting of the Networks for Surveillance of Emerging Infectious Diseases (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 26-28 February 2004)

List of Participants (by country, and PAHO): Annual Regional Meeting of the Countries Participating in the Network for Monitoring/Surveillance of Resistance to Antibiotics (Asunción, Paraguay, 31 January–2 February 2001)

Photo Gallery

Photo Gallery: Typhoid Epidemic in Ca Pierre, Haiti

Slides

Progress made in the Project on Adaptation and Validation of the 5 Key Ways Manual on Food Safety in Elementary Schools in Guatemala

Campaign to Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance in Healthcare Settings

General Announcements

Almost a quarter of all disease caused by environmental exposure

Directories and Disease/Health-Topic Pages

PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centers in the Area of Food Safety

Salmonella

Antimicrobial Resistance

List of Participants: 4th Meeting of the Emerging Disease Surveillance Network of the Southern Cone (Asunción, Paraguay, 30 May—1 June 2001)