date:Sep 04, 2013
n Emerging Infectious Diseases: Threats to Human Health and Global Stability, published by PLOS, the authors from the National Institutes of Health paint a serious, if not scary, picture that the world faces from emerging pathogens: The inevitable, but unpredictable, appearance of new infectious diseases has been recognized for millennia, well before the discovery of causative infectious agents.
Today, however, despite extraordinary advances in development of countermeasures (diagnostics, thera