11.   Establish a public health laboratory fellowship in infectious diseases.

12.   Heavy drinkers are generally more susceptible to infectious diseases.

13.   However, limited resources have left many state and local health departments with inadequate capacity to conduct surveillance for most infectious diseases.

14.   Improved diet would have reduced death rates primarily because well fed people are better able to fight off infectious disease.

15.   In addition to personnel resources, reference laboratory facilities and services are critical to the effective management of emerging infectious disease threats.

16.   In his short life, he had been a paratrooper and a physician, specializing in infectious diseases.

17.   Infectious diseases that now spread more easily because of increased worldwide travel.

18.   National infectious disease surveillance systems form the foundation of our ability to know and track the routine.

19.   Other activities address the development and implementation of guidelines for preventing emerging infectious diseases and the provision of prevention information.