Communicable

In 1964, I was a year into the Epidemic Intelligence Service, an epidemiology training program, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention then known as the Communicable Disease Center when Dr. D. A. Henderson, my immediate boss, asked: "How would you like to go to Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso?"

NYT > Home Page M.D. By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN 2011

Officials at the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) have asked the remaining students to avoid large gatherings and to call the Communicable Disease Reporting and Consultation Hotline, 1922, for medical attention should they develop signs of the disease.

China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper 2009

In September, the UN General Assembly will hold the first ever UN high-level meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases.

Nalini Saligram: Urging World Leaders at Davos to Focus on the Crisis of Chronic Diseases Nalini Saligram 2011

I am encouraged that this year Non-Communicable Diseases NCDs, currently the cause of more than 60% of deaths in the world -- of which 80% are in the developing world -- are on the agenda.

Nalini Saligram: Urging World Leaders at Davos to Focus on the Crisis of Chronic Diseases Nalini Saligram 2011

Communicable diseases and Haj are historical companions.

Global Voices in English » Saudi Arabia: Will Swine Flu Threaten Hajj? 2009

I am encouraged that this year Non-Communicable Diseases NCDs, currently the cause of more than 60% of deaths in the world -- of which 80% are in the developing world -- are on the agenda.

Nalini Saligram: Urging World Leaders at Davos to Focus on the Crisis of Chronic Diseases Nalini Saligram 2011

In September, the UN General Assembly will hold the first ever UN high-level meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases.

Nalini Saligram: Urging World Leaders at Davos to Focus on the Crisis of Chronic Diseases Nalini Saligram 2011

I am encouraged that this year Non-Communicable Diseases NCDs, currently the cause of more than 60% of deaths in the world -- of which 80% are in the developing world -- are on the agenda.

Nalini Saligram: Urging World Leaders at Davos to Focus on the Crisis of Chronic Diseases Nalini Saligram 2011

The Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control on Monday said 41 Swedes have been infected with EHEC so far, including 15 with HUS.Britt Akerlind, spokeswoman at the institute, said it is unclear why so many Swedes had been infected, but said it could be that efficient reporting mechanism in the Nordic country means more cases have been discovered here.

Severe E. coli outbreak in Europe kills 16, sickens 1,150 2011

In September, the UN General Assembly will hold the first ever UN high-level meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases.

Nalini Saligram: Urging World Leaders at Davos to Focus on the Crisis of Chronic Diseases Nalini Saligram 2011