Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: Challenges and opportunities for militaries

Zheng Jie Marc Ho; Yi Fu Jeff Hwang; Jian Ming Vernon Lee

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Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: Challenges and opportunities for militaries

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- Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: Challenges and opportunities for militaries
- Military Medical Research Vol. 1, Issue 2, Pages: 125-136(2014)
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  Biodefence Centre, Headquarters of the Medical Corps, Singapore Armed Forces, 701 Transit Road, #04-01, Singapore 778910, Singapore
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- DOI：10.1186/2054-9369-1-21
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- Published：2014-06
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Ho et al.: Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: challenges and opportunities for militaries. Mil Med Res 2014, 1: 21 DOI： 10.1186/2054-9369-1-21.

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Abstract

The communal nature of living and training environments

alongside suboptimal hygiene and stressors in the field

place military personnel at higher risk of contracting emerging infectious diseases. Some of these diseases spread quickly within ranks resulting in large outbreaks

and personnel deployed are also often immunologically naïve to otherwise uncommonly-encountered pathogens. Furthermore

the chance of weaponised biological agents being used in conventional warfare or otherwise remains a very real

albeit often veiled

threat. However

such challenges also provide opportunities for the advancement of preventive and therapeutic military medicine

some of which have been later adopted in civilian settings. Some of these include improved surveillance

new vaccines and drugs

better public health interventions and inter-agency co-operations. The legacy of successes in dealing with infectious diseases is a reminder of the importance in sustaining efforts aimed at ensuring a safer environment for both military and the community at large.

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