Responding to malaria, TB as crucial as emerging health threats: Dr Fauci - New York News
by Maria Thomas | Updated Nov 29, 2022
Once considered a potentially static field of medicine, the discipline of studying infectious diseases has proven to be dynamic as emerging and reemerging infectious diseases present continuous challenges, Fauci wrote in a perspective in 'The New England Journal of Medicine'.
Dr Fauci will step down from his positions as NIAID director, chief of NIAID's Laboratory of Immunoregulation and chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden in December.
Although Covid-19 was "the loudest wake-up call in more than a century to our vulnerability to outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases," Dr Fauci wrote.
One success of the response was the rapid development, testing and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, thanks to years of research and investment in new and highly adaptable vaccine platforms and structural biology tools to design vaccine immunogens.
These technological advances, among others, will greatly benefit the field of infectious diseases, he wrote.
In the perspective, Dr Fauci said that the emergence of HIV/AIDS in 1981 led to a sharp increase in interest in infectious diseases among people entering the field of medicine.
Since then, infectious disease specialists have faced numerous medical challenges, including the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, Ebola, Zika, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and Covid-19, he said.
November 29, 2022 Other New York
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