Role of Evidence-Based Public Health in Controlling Emerging Infectious Diseases

Emerging infectious diseases are on the rise and pose a growing challenge to Health Care Providers around the world. They include infectious diseases that have not occurred in humans before, diseases that have occurred previously but affected only small numbers of people in isolated places such as AIDS and Ebola hemorrhagic fever(1) or diseases that have occurred throughout human history but have only recently been recognized as distinct diseases due to an infectious agent, such as Lyme disease and gastric ulcers.