Global Disease Detection Timeline

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Global Disease Detection

Preventing, detecting, and responding to disease threats through regional centers around the world.

2003 Sars

Science
In 2015, GDD Regional Centers rapidly expanded existing acute febrile illness surveillance platforms to examine the global distribution of Zika virus. This research helps scientists and clinicians around the world to identify and prevent Zika virus infections.

2009 H1N1

Public Health Need
In 2003, the World Health Organization declared the SARS pandemic a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The US Congress recognized the need to protect global health security and created CDC’s GDD Program in response to SARS and to protect the world from future PHEICs.

2015 Zika

Boots on the Ground
GDD global health experts deployed from their overseas posts to support the 2014-2015 West Africa Ebola outbreak. GDD experts worked side-by-side with local partners to stop the outbreak.

2014 Ebola

Disease Detection
During the 2009 H1N1 outbreak, GDD Regional Centers, in collaboration with CDC’s Influenza Division, worked with country and regional partners to establish diagnostic capacity to detect H1N1 in 57 countries.