Resumen de A Strategy of Containment.
Discusses the efforts of epidemiologists such as David L. Heymann to conduct research and surveillance of epidemics such as SARS in order to break the transmission of disease. Heymann spent two years in India administering smallpox vaccinations. In 1976, thoroughly hooked on international public health, he returned to the U.S. to join the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's epidemic intelligence service. When the agency heard about an unusual respiratory infection spreading at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia, Heymann was sent on his first outbreak investigation. Instead of flu, the illness turned out to be a new one, later dubbed Legionnaire's disease. Heymann and a team of researchers created an emerging and infectious disease program to act as a useful tool in outbreak alert and response. The WHO formally unveiled its Global Alert and Response Network in 2000, but SARS was the first multicountry outbreak the coalition faced. Heymann, too, has a new role, having been charged with WHO's current attempt to completely eradicate an old disease from the world--this time, polio. Just six countries have wild poliovirus transmission within their borders, but political squabbles have bogged down immunization efforts in some areas.
