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If you cannot tolerate your antimalarial drug, see your health care provider; other antimalarial drugs Prevent Malaria are available. Annals of Internal Medicine journalistethics. Paules, MD; Robert W. Eisinger, PhD; Hilary D. Fauci, MD Presidential administrations face any number of unexpected cri- preparation for and response to these threats whenever and ses during their tenure, and global pandemics are among the wherever they emerge.

This article recounts selected outbreaks most challenging. As of January , one of the authors had occurring during this period and highlights lessons that were served under 5 presidents as the director of the National Institute learned that can be applied to the infectious disease threats that of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of will inevitably be faced in the current presidential administration Health.

During each administration, the government faced unex- and beyond. These experiences underscored the need to optimize This article was published at Annals. I n mid-January , before the U. In addition to terror sonal loyalties to infectious diseases, I cannot conceive attacks, cyberattacks, and natural disasters, outbreaks a need for more infectious-disease experts unless of infectious diseases were presented as a likely threat.

How- One of us Anthony S. Fauci attended that meeting ever, 3 years later, an event occurred that led to the along with other members of the Department of Health stark realization of the real and potential emergence and Human Services to discuss emerging infectious dis- and reemergence of globally important infectious dis- eases. The meeting prompted us to reflect on infec- eases, heralding a trend that would impact and influ- tious disease challenges that have arisen during the 5 ence each of the 5 administrations under which Dr.

Fauci has served as di- Fauci served. During this pe- of Kaposi sarcoma and Pneumocystis pneumonia riod, each administration was confronted with the need among young, previously healthy men who had sex to manage ongoing or established infectious diseases with men in New York City and California was reported as well as new and reemerging infectious disease by the U.

This review highlights selected infectious dis- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 4, 5. However, in an Annals of Internal Medicine response to such threats. Because current and as-yet article written in and published in 6 , Dr. David O. White, illnesses since the start of the epidemic 7.

To make matters worse for the perception begin dramatically and generate considerable public of the field, Dr. Robert G. It soon became clear that early on.

Upon Dr. This led to advances gan administration took a more active public role in in combination antiretroviral therapy ART that have response to the AIDS outbreak with the issuance transformed the lives of HIV-infected persons. Despite for persons who are diagnosed early and maintain viral this increased effort, these actions were regarded by suppression through combination ART To comple- activists as inadequate for the challenge at hand.

At that time, only a few years after HIV had tious diseases. These infections were Bush underscoring the reality that we live in a global commu- administration. Such research ul- sive culling of poultry by the Hong Kong health author- timately resulted in the introduction of combinations of ities resulted in a temporary end to the outbreak.

However, the The accelerated U. Bush administration, demonstrated the impor- In addition to the emergence of H5N1 avian influ- tance of investing resources in fundamental scientific enza, the Clinton administration was faced with the re- research, including research infrastructure. It also put emergence of West Nile virus, a well-known global in- into sharp focus the critical need to promote direct fectious disease that had never been observed in the communication with affected communities and to gar- Americas.

West Nile virus is a classic example of an old ner the support of political leaders and policymakers in infection that reemerges in a new geographic location. The virus spread rapidly and has since be- sustained clusters of transmission in others. In re- pandemic, which was subsequently found to be caused sponse to this outbreak, the NIAID VRC developed a by a novel coronavirus, resulted in cases and vaccine against West Nile virus and completed a phase deaths before the outbreak ended 28 and had a sub- 1 clinical trial Unfortunately, the vaccine was not stantial negative effect on national and global econo- developed further because of the lack of an industry mies.

The outbreak was successfully controlled with partner. However, it showed the utility of a new vaccine classic public health measures, including early case platform DNA that would undergo advanced develop- identification, patient isolation, and use of personal ment in a subsequent flavivirus outbreak. Bush administration — fore specific countermeasures were developed.

The was faced almost immediately with 2 unprecedented NIAID played a critical role in the research response to domestic public health emergencies. The devastating SARS, developing preclinical vaccine candidates in less terrorist attacks of 11 September were followed than a year by using several novel technologies 29 — within days by detection of anthrax spores in letters to 2 Moreover, with anthrax, 5 of whom died With a substantial this rapid response set the pace for our research re- infusion of new funding, these attacks spurred the sponse to future infectious disease threats.

At the time of infections in both birds and humans Person-to- the anthrax attacks, the NIAID had a modest basic sci- person transmission was suspected in several case clus- ence research program on potential agents of bioter- ters, and although it was inefficient, it caused global rorism In response to the attacks, the institute is- concern that the virus might mutate to adapt itself to sued a series of initiatives and used newly obligated humans and precipitate the next worldwide influenza resources to greatly expand its research portfolio.

In pandemic Congress, responding to the Bush administra- countermeasure development and led to several key tion's request, provided billions of dollars in emer- achievements, including the development of vaccine gency spending to combat the threat of a global influ- candidates against smallpox and Clostridium botuli- enza pandemic. The NIAID, together with its grantees num, antivirals for smallpox, antitoxins for anthrax and and contractors, played a key role in testing vaccine botulinum, and the first clinical Ebola vaccine trials.

At candidates against H5N1 influenza, some of which that time, Ebola was among a group of hemorrhagic were later manufactured and placed in the Strategic fever viruses categorized as CDC category A agents National Stockpile. Bush administration was not fully appreci- increase in infections in sub-Saharan Africa. In , ated until later. Despite the availability of safe and effective thera- and many scientific and public health colleagues be- pies to treat HIV infection, only a fraction of infected lieved that the natural emergence of a virulent patho- persons were receiving treatment.

In response to this gen was an even greater threat Nowhere was this crisis, President George W. This pro- acute respiratory syndrome emerged in and gram had ambitious goals, including preventing 7 H5N1 influenza reemerged in Shortly thereafter, this disease, by then largest global health initiative for a single infectious dis- termed severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS , re- ease that has ever been implemented by any country.

Global examples of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. Map of the world drawn in the early s and indicating the predominant newly emerging infectious disease at that time HIV. Accumulation of some newly emerging and reemerging infectious diseases since the early s and several that were encountered before then. Some infectious disease outbreaks have had major global health impact, whereas others have appeared as curiosities, with little public health impact. Adapted from reference Bush administration, the Table.

Optimal Response to Emerging Infectious Disease Obama administration — experienced the Outbreaks: Lessons Learned first of several unanticipated infectious disease threats in the early months of its first term.

The H1N1 influenza Global surveillance to detect outbreaks early Transparency and communication in response to outbreaks pandemic, the first influenza pandemic of the 21st cen- Incorporation of infrastructure and capacity building domestically and tury, began in April , just months after the inaugu- internationally in outbreak responses ration. Because seasonal influenza vaccines offered lit- Conduct of basic and clinical research associated with outbreaks in a tle or no protection against this newly emerged virus, coordinated and collaborative manner Involvement of the afflicted communities in policy decisions Congress acted quickly to give the Department of Pursuit and perfection of adaptable platform technologies for Health and Human Services significant additional re- vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics sources in anticipation of a second phase of the out- Importance of flexible funding mechanisms break in the fall and winter of Vaccine develop- ment was deemed to be the highest priority, and in early August , as soon as an experimental vaccine lacked public health infrastructure.

By the end of the was available, the NIAID began rapidly enrolling volun- outbreak, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone reported teers into a clinical trial conducted by its Vaccine and more than 28 cases of Ebola, with 11 deaths Treatment Evaluation Units network.

However, despite The American public reacted to Ebola with a level intense efforts to rapidly develop and test the vaccine, of fear and panic that was disproportionate to the ac- trial results and vaccine supplies were not available un- tual risk to the U.

Although several Ebola- til the late fall and early winter, after the outbreak had infected persons were treated in the United States, all peaked In ad- the inadequacy of our pandemic preparedness capa- dition, most U. As in the example of influenza, history has cessfully treating 2 Ebola-infected persons.

PREVAIL-sponsored studies of sev- scientific disciplines to actively pursue the develop- eral vaccine candidates 42 and the monoclonal anti- ment of such a vaccine a top priority. The H1N1 influenza pandemic ulations. These trials offered important information to was followed in quick succession by outbreaks of chi- guide responses to future Ebola outbreaks. However, in kungunya in the Caribbean in ; Ebola in West Af- the end, infrastructure development; close collabora- rica in ; and, finally, Zika in the southern regions of tion with the host countries; and the implementation of the Americas in Chikungunya virus, an alphavirus classic public health measures, such as safe burial prac- that had previously caused outbreaks in parts of Africa, tices and meticulous contact tracing, brought this his- Asia, Europe, and the Pacific islands, was first noted in toric epidemic to a halt.

It has since caused disease in approximately 2 the Obama administration. Zika virus, an obscure flavi- million persons in the region, with outbreaks ongoing virus believed to have limited clinical significance, was in many countries The NIAID VRC responded detected in Brazil in and was thrust into the public quickly to this threat by developing a novel chikungu- eye when it was linked to an upsurge in microcephaly nya virus—like particle vaccine 40 that is currently in a in Brazil 44 and other countries.

Zika virus has since phase 2 study. This rapid response is a dramatic exam- spread throughout the southern regions of the Ameri- ple of the power of utilizing preexisting platform tech- cas, causing widespread disease.

Puerto Rico and other nologies to expedite vaccine development during an U. In addition, thousands of travel- The reemergence of chikungunya virus was fol- related cases were seen in the continental United lowed by the devastating Ebola crisis in West Africa, States, together with more than locally transmitted which peaked in In addition to microcephaly, Zika virus has pantly in the crowded urban centers of countries that been linked to several other congenital abnormalities Annals.

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