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* ASIA NEWS
* SEPTEMBER 21, 2010, 6:20 P.M. ET
Training Experts to Find and Fight Epidemics
A U.S.-Funded Program Helps Health Workers in Developing Countries Track Disease and Speed Response to Outbreaks
By BETSY MCKAY
Nigeria, Vietnam and dozens of other countries are stepping up efforts to respond to disease threats, as epidemics add to the burden on their health-care systems and new pathogens spread around the globe.
To fight Nigeria's worst cholera epidemic in nearly two decades, an outbreak of lead poisoning that has killed more than 160 children, and an eruption of measles, officials are turning to public-health experts like Suleiman Haladu.
A veterinarian from northwestern Nigeria, Dr. Haladu is training to become an epidemiologist?a disease detective who probes the source of outbreaks and determines how widespread they are. He is in an on-the-job program partly funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and modeled on the Epidemic Intelligence Service, the CDC's two-year program whose officers helped to eradicate smallpox, identify HIV/AIDS, and pinpoint a deadly strain of E. coli...
* ASIA NEWS
* SEPTEMBER 21, 2010, 6:20 P.M. ET
Training Experts to Find and Fight Epidemics
A U.S.-Funded Program Helps Health Workers in Developing Countries Track Disease and Speed Response to Outbreaks
By BETSY MCKAY
Nigeria, Vietnam and dozens of other countries are stepping up efforts to respond to disease threats, as epidemics add to the burden on their health-care systems and new pathogens spread around the globe.
To fight Nigeria's worst cholera epidemic in nearly two decades, an outbreak of lead poisoning that has killed more than 160 children, and an eruption of measles, officials are turning to public-health experts like Suleiman Haladu.
A veterinarian from northwestern Nigeria, Dr. Haladu is training to become an epidemiologist?a disease detective who probes the source of outbreaks and determines how widespread they are. He is in an on-the-job program partly funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and modeled on the Epidemic Intelligence Service, the CDC's two-year program whose officers helped to eradicate smallpox, identify HIV/AIDS, and pinpoint a deadly strain of E. coli...