Vaccines and Immunology

Emerging Infectious Diseases

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The outbreaks of previously unknown diseases and infectious diseases that cannot be controlled are called emerging infectious diseases. They are also known diseases that rapidly get increasing in incidence or geographic range in the last 2 decades. There are many reasons why infectious diseases re-emerge. Some of the factors are population growth, migration from one place to another, International travel, poverty, ecological changes due to economic development, and climate change.  From the 1970s, nearly 40 infectious diseases have been discovered, including HIV infections, SARS, dengue fever, Zika, MERS, Ebola, chikungunya, avian flu, and most recently Coronavirus. Research and developments of vaccines however give hope that infectious diseases can be controlled or even eliminated.

Related associations and societies: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, National Institutes of Health (NIH) , Immune Deficiency Foundation (IDF), Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS), Asthma and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI), Clinical Immunology Society, Hepatitis B Foundation (HBF), Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society(PIDS), Indian Vaccine Manufacturers Association (IVMA), National Medical Association (NMA).