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Article: International Circumpolar Surveillance, an Arctic network for surveillance of infectious diseases.(PERSPECTIVE)
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
- Author:
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Peoples of the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions live in social and physical environments that differ substantially from those of their more southern-dwelling counterparts. The cold northern climate keeps people indoors, amplifying the effects of household crowding, smoking, and inadequate ventilation on person-to-person spread of infectious disease. The emergence of antimicrobial drug resistance among bacterial pathogens, the reemergence of tuberculosis, the entrance of HIV into Arctic communities, and the specter of pandemic influenza or the sudden emergence and introduction of new viral pathogens such as severe acute respiratory syndrome are of increasing concern to ...
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