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Infection Emergent
Journal of the American Medical Association, January 17, 1996

The following is an excerpt from Dr. Joshua Lederberg's editorial in the January 17, 1995 Special Issue of JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) on Emerging Diseases. The complete text, together with other articles, may be read after registering at the "Journals and Publications" site on the AMA Home Page. Registered users may proceed directly to the article.

"The depredations of the global HIV pandemic have been a humbling experience for the scientific infectious disease community and the public health authorities. This can hardly be compared with the human suffering induced by this alien surprise, and what may still lie ahead. However, it may yet have some salutory effect if it alerts us to still further hazards that we face as a species in our competition with microbial competitors, who crowd us at the summit of the terrestrial food chain.

--- Joshua B. Lederberg, Infection Emergent, JAMA, January 17, 1996

Note: Thirty-four other journals worldwide are currently documenting the incidence, causal factors, and consequences of emerging diseases:


 
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