Outbreaks: Protecting Americans From Infectious Disease
Item Details
Title
Outbreaks: Protecting Americans From Infectious Disease
Topics
This report examines infectious disease preparedness across 10 indicators in each state of the US, particularly in reference to the recent Ebola outbreak.
Date
2014
Conclusions
The Ebola outbreak exposed specific weaknesses in the American public health system, such as a lack of hospitals capable of caring for highly contagious patients while protecting workers, lack of a widely available diagnostic test, and the lack of medical countermeasures. Other potential threats may come from antibiotic resistance, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, TB, STIs, and Chagas Disease.
Source
Levi, J., et al. Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases. Trust for America's Health. December, 2014. https://www.tfah.org/reports/. Accessed March, 2024.
Citation
“Outbreaks: Protecting Americans From Infectious Disease,” Collection of Biothreat Risk Assessments (COBRA), accessed January 15, 2025, https://cobrabiosecurity.org/items/show/507.