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Surgeon General's Report on the 50th World Health Assembly

David Satcher, MD, PhD

JAMA. 1999;281:942-943.

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AS WITH THE ECONOMY, HEALTH HAS BECOME increasingly global. Never before has the health of the world's people been more interdependent and vital to American medicine and public health. The movement of 2 million people each day across national borders and the growth of international trade are inevitably associated with transfers of health risks, including infectious diseases, contaminated foodstuffs, terrorism, and toxic substances, be they legal or illegal.¹ Owing to the ease of rapid international travel, emerging and drug-resistant infectious diseases in one country may pose a threat to the health and economies of all countries.²

Since 1995, nearly half of all measles cases reported in the United States have been introduced from other countries, and the last 3 US measles outbreaks had their origins outside of the United States.³ The strains of influenza that affect the US population every year appear first in other parts . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliation: US Surgeon General and Assistant Secretary for Health.

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