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Article: DAI-Led Team Selected to Implement USAID Response to Emerging Infectious Diseases

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October 29, 2009
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To: HEALTH EDITORS

Contact: Steven O'Connor, Director of Communications of DAI, +1- 301-771-7834, Steven_O'Connor@dai.com

BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- DAI has been awarded a five-year program aimed at preventing future pandemics such as HIV/ AIDS and H1N1.

The global infectious disease program, called RESPOND, funded at up to $185 million, is the largest of five U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) projects designed to improve local institutional capacity to respond to "zoonotic" diseases--those that originate in animals and develop the capacity to infect humans.

"Even a partial list of recent zoonotic diseases--SARS, West Nile Virus, Ebola, avian influenza, novel ...

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