Inception of the Modern Public Health System in China and Perspectives for Effective Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases:In Commemoration of the 140th Anniversary of the Birth of the Plague Fighter Dr.Wu Lien-Teh

摘要

Infectious diseases pose a serious threat to human health and affect social,economic,and cultural development.Many infectious diseases,such as severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS,2013),Middle East respiratory syndrome(MERS,2012 and 2013),Zika virus infection(2007,2013 and 2015),and coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19,2019),have occurred as regional or global epidemics(Reperant and Osterhaus 2017;Gao 2018)。