Emerging infectious diseases
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found: Work cat.: 2003064588: Germ warriors : stories of the men and women who fight the world's worst diseases from tuberculosis to smallpox, c2003:CIP galley (emergence of new diseases; emerging infections)
found: Google search, Nov. 7, 2003("Emerging infectious diseases", overwhelming usage with 138,000 hits)
found: CDC journal:Emerging infectious diseases web site, Nov. 13, 2003 ("Infectious diseases whose incidence in humans has increased in the past 2 decades or threatens to increase in the near future have been defined as 'emerging.' These diseases, which respect no national boundaries, include: new infections resulting from changes or evolution of existing organisms, known infections spreading to new geographic areas or populations; previously unrecognized infections appearing in areas undergoing ecologic transformation; and old infections reemerging as a result of antimicrobial resistance in known agents or breakdowns in public health measures.")
found: MeSH(Communicable Diseases, Emerging x Infectious Diseases, Emerging)
found: Alltheweb search, Nov. 13, 2003(new infectious diseases, re-emerging infectious diseases, reemerging infectious diseases)
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2003-11-10: new
2003-12-12: revised
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