The U.S.-Mexico Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project: Establishing Binational Border Surveillance

The U.S.-Mexico Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project: Establishing Binational Border Surveillance

In 1997, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Mexican Secretariat of Health, and border health officials began the development of the Border Infectious Disease Surveillance (BIDS) project, a surveillance system for infectious diseases along the U.S.-Mexico border. During a 3-year peri...

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Main Authors: Michelle Weinberg, Stephen Waterman, Carlos Alvarez Lucas, Veronica Carrion Falcon, Pablo Kuri Morales, Luis Anaya Lopez, Chris Peter, Alejandro Escobar Gutiérrez, Ernesto Ramirez Gonzalez, Ana Flisser, Ralph Bryan, Enrique Navarro Valle, Alfonso Rodriguez, Gerardo Alvarez Hernandez, Cecilia Rosales, Javier Arias Ortiz, Michael Landen, Hugo Vilchis, Julie Rawlings, Francisco Lopez Leal, Luis Ortega, Elaine Flagg, Roberto Tapia Conyer, Martin S. Cetron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2003-01-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
border health
Mexico
southwestern United States
sentinel surveillance
communicable diseases
hepatitis
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/1/02-0047_article

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