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The Origin of Plagues: Old and New
1 Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
Viruses and bacteria emerge in new and old forms to cause disease epidemics. Some microorganisms recur when changing life-styles (including increased international travel) offer new opportunities;others arise from new genetic variations. These various epidemics connect the future with the past, offering lessons for guarding the health of generations to come—lessons learned from diseases such as tuberculosis, toxic shock syndrome, Lyme disease, streptococcal infection, influenza, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The public must be vigilant to the possibility of new epidemics, learn more about the biology and epidemiology of microbes, and strengthen systems of surveillance and detection.
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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)
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