Emerging Infectious Diseases

Please expand this article. Further information might be found in a section of the talk page or at Requests for expansion. Please remove this message once the article has been expanded. Emerging infectious diseases are diseases whose incidence has increased within the past two decades and threatens to increase in the new future. Types of emerging diseases include: New disease caused by a newly identified microorganism or newly identified strain of a known microorganism (new disease, ne ...