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cord-332610-t99l3zii	Mayer, J.D.	Emerging Diseases: Overview	2008-08-26		.txt	text/plain	9596	469	52	The potential for new diseases to emerge in the United States was there, and it took just a few years until this happened, catching the medical and public health communities by surprise. The issue at the time was whether legionnaires disease and toxic shock syndrome were anomalies, whether the assumption of the conquest of infectious diseases had clearly been erroneous, or whether these two outbreaks were harbingers of a new stage in 'epidemiologic history'a historical period during which emerging infections would become common and would catch the attention of the public, the public health community, the medical community, and government agencies. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) proved to be of great import in both the public awareness of emerging infectious diseases and in the testing and real-time construction of both domestic and international systems of public health surveillance and response.	./cache/cord-332610-t99l3zii.txt	./txt/cord-332610-t99l3zii.txt