Politics Link Turns DEMOCRATS SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL DISEASE SURVEILLANCE. Anderson, 2006

Politics Link Turns

DEMOCRATS SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL DISEASE SURVEILLANCE.

Anderson, 2006

In contrast to viewing vaccines…that it could wait another year” 

AID TO AFRICA TRANSCENDS PARTISAN POLITICS

Ruddy, 2006

The press rarely speaks about it…globally, especially in Africa. 

BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FOR EXPAND CDC SURVEILLANCE

Mabee, 2007

Discussion draft of CSTE surveillance bill done…activities across federal agencies” 

BIPART SUPPORT FOR AVIAN FLU PREVENTION

Anderson, 2006

After addressing these broad issues…variety of domestic and international agencies 

CDC FUNDING UNPOPULAR—PERCEIVED INEFFICIENCES. 

Matus, 07-(Kate, "Ryan Wins Overwhelming Bipartisan Support to Stop Wastefbl CDC Spending: House Approves Amendment to Prevent

Squandering Funds on Luxuries and Unnecessary Programs," July) 

First District Congressman Paul Ryan…to advance this goal.” 

CDC SPENDING IS UNPOPULAR-CORE FUNCTIONS ARE EXPERIENCING BUDGET CUTS 

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WASHINGTON - The core Programs of the Centers for…and local health departments. 

CDC SPENDINGIS UNPOPULAR-BUDGET CUTS PROVE 

Under President George ("Keep Us Safe") Bush's…safety and health conerns. 

CDC BIOTERRORISM SPENDING IS UNPOPULAR-BIPARTISAN BUDGET CUTS PROVE 

Newsday 6-6-07 (Glenn Thrush, Schumer changes tune on bioterror cuts: Schumer leads push to reclaim lost funding for bioterror programs he previously voted to cut, records show," 

In December. Schumer didn't obiect…according to a spokesman.

The United States federal government should provide the necessary assistance to the Center for Disease Control to establish a Global Disease Detection Center and syndromic surveillance in Somalia.

INHERENCY—CURRENT SURVEILLANCE INCREASES ARE PIECEMEAL AND DON’T TARGET CRUCIAL AREAS LIKE SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. 

Science Daily, 12/11/07

(Boyce is a UC Davis professor of veterinary medicine, “Bird-flu Expert Calls For Changes In Early-warning System”, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071207091915.htm) 

ADVANTAGE      : FOOD SECURITY 

FIRST, SOMALIA IS ON THE BRINK OF AN OUTBREAK IN ZOONOTIC DISEASE—THIS WILL SPREAD CONTINENT WIDE AND DEVASTATE GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY. 

Agence France Press, 1/15/07

(“Conflict, disease threaten Horn Africa food security: monitors”, lexis) 

ZOONOTIC DISEASE ERODE FOOD SECURITY—CRUSH CONSUMER CONFIDENCE AND FOOD TRADE. 

(Joseph , ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Vol. 1, “Regional and International Approaches on Prevention and Control of Animal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases,” October) 

TADs impose major social and economic costs and risks to infected countries, their neighbors, and trading partners….commodities, and products of animal origin. 

SECOND, TERRORISTS WILL TARGET FOOD SUPPLIES CAUSING MASSIVE DEATH, CONTAMINATE FOOD, AND PYSCHOLOGICALLY DEVASTATE THE U.S—OUR EVIDENCE CITES EXPERTS IN FOOD SECURITY. 

(“Is SA prepared for bioterrorism?”, 11/1, http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/11/12287.html) 

It has now become a vital responsibility of Government… of the food industry itself," Buchanan emphasised. 

FOOD INSECURITY KILLS BILLIONS OVERNIGHT AND COLLAPSES THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. 

(Lester, THE FUTURIST, “Food scarcity: an environmental wakeup call”, January 1, http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/laws-government-regulations-environmental/663828-1.html) 

ECONOMIC COLLAPSE CAUSES EXTINCTION. 

(T. E.,  Fellow Emeritus of the Alpha Foundation's Institute for Advanced Study "The Unnecessary Energy Crisis: How to Solve It Quickly," June 12)

AND, INDEPENDENTLY—THESE DISEASES CAUSE EXTINCTION. 

South China Morning Post, 1996

(January 4, lexis) 

ADVANTAGE __: SOMALIAN TERRORISM 

TWO INTERNAL LINKS: FIRST---BLOWBACK. THE RISING TIDE OF ANTI-AMERICANISM IN SOMALIA MAKES IT A MAJOR HUB TERRORISTS—SPECIFICALLY  AL-QAEDA. ONLY SWITCHING TOWARDS A MORE NUANCED COUNTER-TERRORISM APPROACH THAT BUILDS PUBLIC SUPPORT AND RENEWED STABILITY IS KEY.  

International Crisis Group, 2005

(“Counter-Terrorism in Somalia: Losing Hearts and Minds?”, 7/11, http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=3555) 

During the 1990s, jihadism in Somalia was synonymous…strengthen the jihadis. 

EVERY FOREIGN POLICY EXPERT CONCLUDES THAT THE PRE-EMPTIVE AND AGGRESSIVE STRATEGY OF THE CURRENT WAR ON TERROR HAS EXACERBATED THE THREAT OF TERRORISM. INSTEAD, WE MUST FOCUS ON BUILDING BETTER DEFENSIVE METHODS OF PREVENTION. 

(David and Jules, THE NATION, “Why We’re Losing the War on Terror”, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070924/cole_lobel/2) 

President George W. Bush is fond of reminding us that no terrorist attacks have occurred on domestic soil since 9/11. But has the…When Russia feels the need to distance itself from the United States out of concern that its human rights image might be tarnished by association, we have fallen far. 
 

SECOND, RELATIONS: US ACTION IS CRITICAL TO FACILITATE AN EFFECTIVE RESPONSE TO THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN SOMALIA—ONLY THROUGH INCREASING AID TO SOMALIA CAN THE US CREATE GENUINE AND SUSTAINABLE RELATIONS WITH BOTH THE SOMALIAN GOVERNMENT AND ITS CITIZENS. THIS IS CRUCIAL TO EFFECTIVE TERRORISM PREVENTION.

 
Arman, 11/28/07 

By all standards, the situation unfolding in Somalia is horrifically grim…humanitarian and political mayhem at hand.

TERRORISTS WILL DETONATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THE UNITED STATES. EVEN IF THE MAGNITUDE OF ANOTHER IMPACT IS GREATER, THE PROBABILITY OF A NUCLEAR TERRORISM MEANS IT OUTWEIGHS. 

Posner, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2005

(Richard, SKEPTIC, January 1, lexis) 

SURVEILLANCE IS AT THE HEART OF THIS NEW PARADIGM OF TERRORIST PREVENTION. OUR USE OF SURVEILLANCE IS SUBVERSIVE AND THE BEST WAY TO DECREASE INTERVENTION.  

(Lyle, “From Chaos to Controlled Disorder: Syndromic Surveillance, Bioweapons, and the Pathological Future”, March 25, http://anthropos lab.net/wp/publications/2007/01/fearn_chaos_to_disorder.pdf) 

Determining the normal syndromal patterns…monitored and controlled. 

SOLVENCY 

THE CDC’S ZOONOTIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM PROVIDES RAPID ALERT SYSTEMS, UNIQUE DATABASES, AND TRAINING ABROAD TO PREVENT AGRO-TERRORISM. ONLY THE CDC CAN RAPIDLY COMMUNICATE FINDINDS WITH U.S. AGENCIES. 

(Lonnie, “CDC Agroterrorism and Zoonotic Threat Preparedness Efforts”, August 24, http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/t060824.html) 

INCREASING THE NUMBER OF TRAINED PERSONEL IN THE CDC IS CRUCIAL TO CREATE A STRONG PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS CAPABLE OF MINIMIZING THE CASUALTIES FROM A BIOTERRORIST AND DISEASE OUTBREAK. THE CDC’S GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM PROVIDES A CRUCIAL SPOT FOR THIS TRAINING. 

(Marks. Smolinski (Former Senior Program Officer at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academics of Science and Epidemic Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Margaret A. Hamburg (Vice President for Biological Programs at Nuclear Threat Initiative), & Joshua Lederberg (Directs the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Informatics at The Rockefeller University) Editors, Board on Global Health at the institute of  the National Academics, Microbial threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response, 3-18-2003, http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10636.html) 

As described earlier, surveillance of and…career paths in infectious disease prevention and control.  

INCREASING THE NUMBER OF TRAINED PERSONEL IN THE CDC IS CRUCIAL TO CREATE A STRONG PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS CAPABLE OF MINIMIZING THE CASUALTIES FROM A BIOTERRORIST AND DISEASE OUTBREAK. THE CDC’S GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM PROVIDES A CRUCIAL SPOT FOR THIS TRAINING. 

(Marks. Smolinski (Former Senior Program Officer at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academics of Science and Epidemic Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Margaret A. Hamburg (Vice President for Biological Programs at Nuclear Threat Initiative), & Joshua Lederberg (Directs the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Informatics at The Rockefeller University) Editors, Board on Global Health at the institute of  the National Academics, Microbial threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response, 3-18-2003, http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10636.html) 

As described earlier, surveillance of and…career paths in infectious disease prevention and control.

THE CDC’S RESPONSE SPEED AND ASSISTANCE CAPABILITIES ARE UNMATCHED GLOBALLY—A STUDY DONE BY THE WORLD’S LEADING SCIENTISTS PROVE.

(Dr. Sheela Basrur, Medical Officer of Health, City of Toronto; Dr. Michel G. Bergeron, Chairman of the Division of Microbiology and of the Infectious Diseases Research Centre of Laval University, Quebec City; Dr. Robert C. Brunham, Medical Director of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver; Dr. David Butler-Jones, Medical Health Officer for Sun Country, and Consulting Medical Health Officer for Saskatoon Health Regions, Regina; Gerald Dafoe, Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Public Health Association, Ottawa; Dr. Mary Ferguson-Paré, Vice-President, Professional Affairs and Chief Nurse Executive at University Health Network, Toronto; Frank Lussing, Past President and CEO of York Central Hospital, Richmond Hill; Dr. Allison McGeer, Director of Infection Control, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto; Kaaren R. Neufeld, Executive Director and Chief Nursing Officer at St. Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg; Dr. Frank Plummer, Scientific Director of the Health Canada National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON SARS AND PUBLIC HEALTH, “Learning From SARS: Renewal of Public Health in Canada”, October 23, http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/sars-sras/naylor/3_e.html#s3a) 

The CDC has 12 centres, institutes and offices. The Director…infectious outbreak is unmatched globally.