title: [From alert to laboratory: a coherent network designed to deal with to naturally occurring infectious disease outbreaks and bioterrorism].
abstract: Public health prevention requires early detection of disease outbreaks, whether naturally occurring or due to bioterrorism. Permanent surveillance and a network of laboratories are the two main pillars of effective outbreak management. Coordination of information, training, and procedures are under the responsibility of the French public health watch institute and the scientific advisory board for the Biotox-Piratox laboratory network. Protective capacities against bioterrorism are improving but efforts must continue.
authors.affiliation: Institut de médecine aérospatiale du service de santé des armées, BP23, 91723 Brétigny sur Orge.
authors.forename: Patrice
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Binder
authors.forename: Gilles
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Brucker
authors.forename: Loïc
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Josseran
mesh_terms: D023482:Bioterrorism; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance