9 March 2011
77 Powerpoint Lectures online from the International
Meeting on Emerging Diseases (IMED) & Surveillance
Speaker presentations
from the superb February 4-7, 2011 International Meeting on Emerging Diseases
(IMED 2011) and Surveillance, International Society of Infectious Diseases
(ISID), held in Vienna, Austria are now posted on a public website at: http://imed.isid.org/symposia.shtml.
The Final conference program and abstract book are also available via a link at
the top of this page. The chair of the
conference was again Dr. Lawrence Madoff, and the IMED 2011 was larger and even
better than the biannual IMED 2009 and IMED 2007.
Over 75 excellent
powerpoint presentations from IMED 2011 are now available from this remarkable
collection of what is, in some ways, an ‘e-state-of-the-art’ for the
accelerating global field of Emerging Diseases.
A sample of the
spectrum of the “One Health” topics covered during this three-day meeting
included: Wildlife and Emerging
Diseases, Diseases at the Wildlife-Human Frontier, Climate Change and
Infectious Diseases, H1N1 Pandemic, Farm to Table: Foodborne Diseases”,
Vectorborne Diseases, Surveillance and Public Health, Emerging Infectious
Pathogens of Animals and Man, and others.
A sample of specific
lecture presentations for which powerpoint slides are now posted online include:
Monitoring Infectious
Disease Threats in Europe, Identifying New and Emerging Viruses of Bat Origin,
Gideon, Emerging Diseases in Public Health Education, Animals as Detectors of
Bio-events, Using Data from social Networking sites to Predict the Spread of Pandemic
Influenza, Surveillance of antimicrobial Resistance and antibiotic Use in
Humans and Animals, Polio---Vaccine End game Strategy, Regional disease
Surveillance Networks, the ProMED Experience in East Africa, Q-fever in the
Netherlands, Plague and Climate Change;
Infection prevention
and control challenges experienced in the Lujo Adenovirus outbreak, Controlling Transmission of Glanders in the
Veterinary Health Setting, Re-emerging mosquito-borne diseases in Europe,
Cholera outbreak in Haiti, 2010, Laboratory-acquired human cowpox infection in
the USL case investigation, ProMED early warnings in Africa;
Using surveillance
data to estimate influenza vaccine effectiveness in Spain during seven seasons
(2002-2009), Cost-effectiveness of alternative case finding strategies for
prisons with high prevalence of MDR-TB, Emergence of multidrug resistant NDM-1
producing superbugs in Bangladesh, Impact of vaccination on the genetic
evolution of H5N1 viruses in Egypt, SARS-coronavirus ancestors foot-prints in
southeast Asia: bat colonies and the biodiversity refuge theory, Origin and
genetic evolution of swine influenza A virus isolated during winter 2008-2010
in Zhejiang province, China, Zoonotic pathogens present in South African bat
species, and more.
This collection of
over 77 powerpoint lecture presentations, and several hundred abstracts, from
this biannual International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance
(IMED) is highly recommended to clinicians, researchers, public health
officials, teachers, students, and all other persons interested in this
accelerating field of global Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Daniel R. Lucey, MD,
MPH
EROne Institutes,
Emergency Medicine Dept.,
Adjunct Professor of
Microbiology and Immunology
Email:
DRL23@Georgetown.edu