Reduce the Impact of Emerging Infectious Diseases

By Eve J. Cuny, BA, MS

Emerging infectious diseases and the re-emergence of once-common diseases, such as measles, are serious concerns in the dental setting, as each poses risk to clinicians and patients. The World Health Organization describes an emerging disease as one that has appeared in a population for the first time, or that may have existed previously, but is rapidly increasing in incidence or geographic range.¹ The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines it as an infectious disease whose incidence in humans has increased in the past two decades, or threatens to in the near future.²

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