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Provides an overview of CDC's activities worldwide to identify and contain infectious disease threats, confirm their sources, treat the victims, and refine their surveillance. Features commentary from medical staff of the CDC Center for Global Health who are stationed abroad.
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English
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Robert Brieman, M.D., of CDC's Global Disease Detection Program covers disease surveillance and prevention that is conducted in Africa's "largest continuous slum," Kibera. Explains the importance of the activities to health policy development for other populations given the possibilities of international disease transmission.