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标题：Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: challenges and opportunities for militaries
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作者：Zheng Jie Marc Ho ; Yi Fu Jeff Hwang ; Jian Ming Vernon Lee 等
期刊名称：Military Medical Research
印刷版ISSN：2054-9369
出版年度：2014
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：21
DOI：10.1186/2054-9369-1-21
语种：English
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：The communal nature of living and training environments, alongside suboptimal hygiene and stressors in the field, place military personnel at higher risk of contracting emerging infectious diseases. Some of these diseases spread quickly within ranks resulting in large outbreaks, and personnel deployed are also often immunologically naïve to otherwise uncommonly-encountered pathogens. Furthermore, the chance of weaponised biological agents being used in conventional warfare or otherwise remains a very real, albeit often veiled, threat. However, such challenges also provide opportunities for the advancement of preventive and therapeutic military medicine, some of which have been later adopted in civilian settings. Some of these include improved surveillance, new vaccines and drugs, better public health interventions and inter-agency co-operations. The legacy of successes in dealing with infectious diseases is a reminder of the importance in sustaining efforts aimed at ensuring a safer environment for both military and the community at large.
关键词：Communicable diseases ; Emerging ; Infectious disease medicine ; Military personnel