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NCEZID Accomplishments 2013

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Improving Public Health:

  • Protecting public water systems and the public from Naegleria fowleri (brain-eating ameba) infections
  • Eliminating healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)
  • Sounding the alarm about the threat of antibiotic resistance
  • Containing a deadly and unprecedented outbreak of fungal meningitis
  • Revealing which foods cause foodborne illness
  • Innovating solutions for sanitation in Kenya
  • Improving refugee health
  • Tracing a new virus to ticks
  • Laying a new pipeline to rapidly identify infectious disease
  • Identifying a new poxvirus
  • Speeding up laboratory reporting

Responding to outbreaks:

  • Michigan — CDC responded to an outbreak of Clostridium difficile (called C. difficile) infections
  • Colorado — Outbreak of the deadly superbug CRE
  • US (multistate) — Human rabies transmitted during organ transplantation
  • US (multistate) — Listeria infections associated with contaminated cheese
  • Uganda — Ebola hemorrhagic fever infection

Responding to global outbreaks:

  • Puerto Rico, multiple countries worldwide — One of the largest ever outbreaks of dengue virus infections
  • US and Mexico

What’s ahead for NCEZID in 2014:

  • Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD)

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Last Reviewed: April 21, 2015
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)
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