title: Emerging infectious diseases: memorandum from a WHO meeting.
abstract: A meeting of international experts exchanged information on recent activities dealing with new, emerging and re-emerging diseases, discussed ways of responding to this problem and to other communicable disease threats, and reviewed WHO's activities and role in this area. This Memorandum summarizes the various presentations and concludes with the recommendations and specific tasks for action at every level.
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods*; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D011634:Public Health; D012008:Recurrence; D014481:United States; D014944:World Health Organization