Assignment 18: Annotated Bibliography 2

Stehling-Ariza, Tasha, et al. “CDC Global Rapid Response Team.” Emerging Infectious Diseases, Dec. 2017, eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=16&sid=ec34ed04-1bbf-4651-92d3-29d385838c18%40sessionmgr101.

“The need to detect and respond to disease outbreaks before they spread has long been recognized as a priority because uncontained outbreaks can rapidly proliferate into international emergencies.” (page 1) This source describes the global efforts to establish a fast response to outbreaks that the CDC has achieved. Since the Ebola outbreak, researchers have discovered the importance of responding quickly to ensure a lower mortality rate and lower risk of spreading the disease. Small groups of dedicated scientists respond to the outbreaks and attempt to contain them. The many field tests prove that the development of the GRRT has ensured the containment of the outbreaks and further stopped them from spreading. The Yellow Fever scare and Ebola outbreak were both contained and further researched when the GRRT was available to assist. The development of the CDC to create the GRRT highlighted the necessity for the CDC research tems to learn differing languages. Therefore, the CDC has included training for their researchers to learn languages and training for disease specific/high risk pathogens.

There are many quotes that I can include in my paper that would be useful. Such quotes are about the containment of diseases and the effectiveness of the CDC with helping. “The need to detect and respond to disease outbreaks before they spread has long been recognized as a priority because uncontained outbreaks can rapidly proliferate into international emergencies.”

“CDC launched GRRT to address many of the challenges recognized during the Ebola response and to support other countries when their national response capacity is overwhelmed.”

“GRRT comprises a small group of dedicated responders and a large group of agency-wide surge staff. This model enables effective response to common events with a small number of experts while the team prepares for larger, rare events that necessitate substantial response.”

“Decisions to respond are based on, among other considerations, the urgency, public health impact, and availability of appropriate staff to fill the request. After the decision to respond is made, responders are selected according to their skills, experience, and availability.”

“The GRRT primary focus is international response, and responders are trained to work within varying cultural and environmental conditions outside the continental United States.”

“As the international emergency response community coordinates to build capacity around the world, GRRT will work diligently so that disease threats are rapidly detected, responded to, and controlled at their source, thereby ensuring global health security.”

Regardless that this source is a .com source, it is credible for many different reasons. This source is credible because the information came directly from the CDC. As referenced on the bottom of each page, the CDC is responsible for the information within the article, thus reflecting the well documented refrences from the CDC. The article thoroughly describes each aspect, specifically, the GRRT. Likewise, there are case studies within this website that prove how the GRRT is effective. The source is recent, and therefore, has up to date information.

Learning about this effort from the CDC to contain each outbreak has allowed me to visualize another possible career that I would love to look into. These scientists save lives each day by attempting to control outbreaks and treat the patients. I am going to research into this career field to discover more possibilities of how they learn to develop medicine through the use of these research teams. These research teams that contain the outbreaks may be vital to the development of new medicine to further counter the developing diseases. Because of all of this, the source has been really helpful to the research of my possible future career and assignments.