id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-328888-qckn3lvx Cáceres, Sigfrido Burgos Global Health Security in an Era of Global Health Threats 2011-10-17 .txt text/plain 1111 69 47 For example, transboundary zoonotic diseases such as avian infl uenza (H5N1) infections affect animals and humans, thereby threatening health security worldwide because of their high death rates (≈60% in humans) (1) . This concern has provoked governments and international agencies to address health threats through a security rationale, which emphasizes the themes of national security, biosecurity, and human security. A public health security design that impinges on a global approach runs the risk of neglecting cultural, economic, ecologic, and social conditions on the ground. The momentum so far has created an open forum for decisionmakers to collaborate with the leading international agencies to advocate for surveillance, identifi cation, and control of zoonotic diseases to uphold global public health security (6). on their use of a school-based absenteeism surveillance system to compare daily all-causes absenteeism data against a historic baseline to detect outbreaks of infl uenza-like illness (ILI) as an adjunct to traditional disease reporting (1) . ./cache/cord-328888-qckn3lvx.txt ./txt/cord-328888-qckn3lvx.txt