CDC Media Advisory: Emerging Infectious Diseases Conference to Draw Scientists to Atlanta

Media Advisory

 

For Immediate Release
Thursday, August 20, 2015                                                                                     

 

Contact: CDC Media Relations
(404) 639-3286          

Emerging Infectious Diseases Conference to Draw Scientists to Atlanta

Who: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will co-host the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases 2015 (ICEID 2015) with the American Society for Microbiology, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, the Association of Public Health Laboratories, and the World Health Organization.

What: Since 1998, ICEID has brought together international scientists and public health professionals to foster an exchange of innovative research and ideas on emerging infectious disease topics. Major topics to be included are healthcare-associated infections, antimicrobial resistance, food and waterborne diseases, vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, vaccine-preventable diseases, global health, and molecular tests and epidemiology.

Some of the original CDC research includes:

• Geographic and epidemiologic trends in norovirus outbreaks
• Changes in vibrio infections caused by food and contact with contaminated water
• Deaths attributed to waterborne diseases in the United States
• Relationship between giardia infections and later irritable bowel syndrome
• One-year outcomes for patients in the 2012 multistate fungal meningitis outbreak

Preliminary program and hotel information can be found at http://www.iceid.org/.

When: August 24-26, 2015

Where: Hyatt Regency Atlanta

                265 Peachtree Street NE

             Atlanta, GA 30303-1294

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