By Neena Bhandari
Professor Tania C Sorrell, Director, Sydney Institute for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity and Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney; and Senior Physician in Infectious Diseases at Sydney West Area Health Service.
What are the new and emerging infectious diseases threatening the world in the coming decade?
In the context of emerging infectious diseases in what might happen in the next 10 years, we are really thinking in terms of two major problems – outbreaks which might develop into pandemics and the continuing increase in anti-microbial resistance and hence the dual problems of preventing and managing outbreaks and treating infections which are not responsive to the drugs we have available.