Responding to emerging health threats: guarding health security

In today’s interconnected world, infectious diseases emerge and spread faster than ever before. Infectious diseases know no borders, they can spread rapidly from their source between countries causing a serious security challenge in other countries. Throughout 2013, regional efforts continued to enhance the abilities of countries to prevent, detect and respond to outbreaks of infectious disease threats to make the Region safe and secure from the health threats posed by the emergence of dangerous pathogens.