NCEZID Accomplishments 2016
Number 1: Leading the response to the outbreak of Zika
- Detecting and tracking Zika
- Coordinating the emergency response
- Diagnosing Zika
- Controlling mosquitoes
- Connecting the dots
- Keeping travelers and athletes healthy and safe at the Olympics
Number 2: Transforming the nation’s fight against antibiotic resistance
- Establishing the Antibiotic Resistance Laboratory Network (ARLN)
- Supporting other AR priorities
- Spurring innovation to protect modern medicine
- New data resources to drive change
Number 3: Hunting for—and finding—emerging and dangerous infectious threats
Number 4: Applying new technologies to advance disease detection
Number 5: Giving more assistance and resources to states than ever before
Number 6: Improving healthcare
Number 7: Making food safer to eat
Number 8: Responding to outbreaks
- Foodborne outbreaks
- Cross-border effort helps identify new listeriosis outbreak source
- Outbreaks caused by contact with animals
- Outbreaks related to healthcare
- Cardiac arrest during dialysis
Number 9: Targeting infectious disease work across the globe
- Supporting the response to a yellow fever outbreak in Angola and DRC
- Looking for antimicrobial resistance in India
- Strengthening systems for recognizing and treating cholera in Cameroon
- Responding to an outbreak of Rift Valley fever in Niger
- Post-Ebola infection control work in Africa
Number 10: Scoring victories against deadly infections