Emergent Disease

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We should be barraging our elected representatives, asking them what protocols we have in place at airports and our borders, why it takes 10 years to get vaccines to market, why our medical facilities and personnel seem unprepared to handle infectious diseases, and why we appear incapable of anticipating emergent diseases and treatment options.
Emergency physicians need to be vigilant in identifying new and emergent diseases, especially in light of a recently passed welfare reform bill that give states greater discretion to deny Medicaid coverage to immigrants, said Dr.
All this, says Lappe, means that the medical profession must take a different approach to the prevention and treatment of disease if we are to stop becoming prey to newly emergent diseases such as AIDS and Lyme disease, and to reemergent, drug-resistant diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis.