Assignment 21: Annotated Bibliography 3
Link:
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/6/15-1521_article
This article describes the CDC's effort to attempt to help countries in need with combating strains of influenza. Eventually because of the the increase in routine surveillance and laboratory diagnostics, the CDC was able to show other countries how to maintain and prevent the spread of illnesses such as ebola and Middle East respiratory syndrome. However, when the testing began with it's experimentation, the main goal was to help provide protection against the constantly developing influenza strains. Through the implementation of routine surveillance and routine laboratory diagnostics, the CDC has been able to further teach countries to help prevent the spread of diseases. The surveillance helps the countries to be able to provide timely detection and response previous to the influenza outbreaks. Likewise, through the routine surveillance, the countries have knowledge of the circulating strains, which helps them know the strains to attempt to combat. A majority of the participating countries reported that the tactics that CDC taught them have significantly helped them with the prevention of outbreaks.
"To foster sustainable development, the program prioritized the following principles: investing in routine national surveillance systems to ensure that capacities are regularly tested and used; providing long-term technical assistance; and supporting development."
"Besides having influenza testing, 28 countries reported adding additional pathogens to the routine platforms that were developed or enhanced through capacity strengthening."
"Among the 35 responding countries, 26 started the capacity-strengthening program before onset of the pH1N1 influenza outbreak; 25 of the 26 countries believed that capacity strengthening played a critical or major role in their pandemic response.
"Other key capacities described were the ability to understand seasonal trends, establishment of sub-national diagnostic laboratories, and creation of systems for information sharing between laboratories and sentinel surveillance sites."
"Increases in influenza testing and number of surveillance sites call into question the notion of efficiency: how much surveillance and laboratory testing is enough, particularly in low-income countries where resources are scarce?"
"Of 35 participating countries, 32 (91%) partly attributed their ability to respond to the pH1N1 pandemic to prior capacity strengthening; this perception of the role of capacity strengthening confirms the critical need for routine clinical, epidemiological, and virological influenza surveillance as a preparedness and response strategy."
"Considerable progress has been made in laboratory and sentinel surveillance capacities, which have proven to be essential building blocks for knowing which strains of influenza circulate globally, detecting and preparing for novel and pandemic influenza, understanding respiratory illness associated with influenza, and expanding public health surveillance beyond influenza."
"This additional surveillance illustrates increased health-system strengthening."
The article derives from a credible source because it's authors constantly site where they obtain their statistics and are members of the CDC. Likewise, the source is an accredited .gov source which indicates that it is unbiased and credible. All of the information obtained throughout the article is referenced and sited by other trustworthy links. In addition, I discovered this article through Galileo.
Discovering how the CDC is constantly helping other countries, even with minor diseases such as influenza, furthers my desire to work there. The many differing ways that the scientists and global health experts are able to help countries maintain outbreaks and the spread of infectious diseases intrigues me. This source relates back to my essential question regarding the development of diseases. By implementing these procedures, the CDC teaches the countries the importance of monitoring and preventing outbreaks. In return, the more monitoring that occurs, the more scientists are able to understand how the diseases work, thus learning how to stop them through medicine.
Polansky, Lauren S, et al. “Improved Global Capacity for Influenza Surveillance - Volume 22, Number 6-June 2016 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal - CDC.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 18 Aug. 2016, wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/6/15-1521_article.