Table of Contents

1 FRONT MATTER; 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY; 3 1 BACKGROUND; 4 2 FACTORS IN EMERGENCE; 5 3 ADDRESSING THE THREATS; 6 REFERENCES; 7 APPENDIXES; 8 A TASK FORCES; 9 B CATALOG OF EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE AGENTS; 10 C GLOBAL RESOURCES FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; 11 D COMMITTEE AND STAFF BIOGRAPHIES; 12 GLOSSARY; 13 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; 14 INDEX

About the Author

Joshua Lederberg, Robert E. Shope, and Stanley C. Oaks, Jr., Editors; Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health, Institute of Medicine