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Emerging Diseases

HE A LTH EDUC A TION H E A L T H 1 0 0 V E R S I O N 3 / Introduction

"In the 1960s, it was widely believed that advances in methods of prevention and treatment would overcome the threat to health from infectious diseases. Unfortunately these predictions have proved to be optimistic because of the rapidly increasing threat from ‘emerging infectious diseases’."

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