Edited by
Yichen Lu
M. Essex
Bryan Roberts

2008

In the 1997 annual Harvard AIDS Institute think-tank meeting at the Endicott House in a suburb of Boston, Dr. Natth Bhamarapravati of Thailand reported an interesting observation: emerging infections in Asia seemed to have become a regular event. Not only had we seen new pathogens such as Nipah virus appear in the region, but infectious diseases originating elsewhere in the world also seemed to be spreading more rapidly in Asia.