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The EID category was coined as an attempt to refocus the scientific community, US politicians and the public, onto the threat that infectious diseases continued to pose (to Americans). The authors of this new category were astonishingly successful in achieving their goal. The term ‘emerging infectious diseases’ may remain obscure for most lay people, yet even so, the central concept behind the EID concept has gained wide currency in both scientific and lay discourse. That central idea is that infectious diseases are no longer a thing of the past, but are re-emerging to threaten ‘us’ (in the developed world). The proposition that infectious diseases are re-emerging has become, in effect, common sense.
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Washer, P. (2010). EID, Security and Global Poverty. In: Emerging Infectious Diseases and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277182_8
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