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<record><TEI><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title xml:lang="en">What We Are Watching—Top Global Infectious Disease Threats, 2013-2016: An Update from CDC's Global Disease Detection Operations Center</title><author><name sortKey="Christian, Kira A" sort="Christian, Kira A" uniqKey="Christian K" first="Kira A." last="Christian">Kira A. Christian</name></author><author><name sortKey="Iuliano, A Danielle" sort="Iuliano, A Danielle" uniqKey="Iuliano A" first="A. Danielle" last="Iuliano">A. Danielle Iuliano</name></author><author><name sortKey="Uyeki, Timothy M" sort="Uyeki, Timothy M" uniqKey="Uyeki T" first="Timothy M." last="Uyeki">Timothy M. Uyeki</name></author><author><name sortKey="Mintz, Eric D" sort="Mintz, Eric D" uniqKey="Mintz E" first="Eric D." last="Mintz">Eric D. Mintz</name></author><author><name sortKey="Nichol, Stuart T" sort="Nichol, Stuart T" uniqKey="Nichol S" first="Stuart T." last="Nichol">Stuart T. 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Danielle" last="Iuliano">A. Danielle Iuliano</name></author><author><name sortKey="Uyeki, Timothy M" sort="Uyeki, Timothy M" uniqKey="Uyeki T" first="Timothy M." last="Uyeki">Timothy M. Uyeki</name></author><author><name sortKey="Mintz, Eric D" sort="Mintz, Eric D" uniqKey="Mintz E" first="Eric D." last="Mintz">Eric D. Mintz</name></author><author><name sortKey="Nichol, Stuart T" sort="Nichol, Stuart T" uniqKey="Nichol S" first="Stuart T." last="Nichol">Stuart T. Nichol</name></author><author><name sortKey="Rollin, Pierre" sort="Rollin, Pierre" uniqKey="Rollin P" first="Pierre" last="Rollin">Pierre Rollin</name></author><author><name sortKey="Staples, J Erin" sort="Staples, J Erin" uniqKey="Staples J" first="J. Erin" last="Staples">J. Erin Staples</name></author><author><name sortKey="Arthur, Ray R" sort="Arthur, Ray R" uniqKey="Arthur R" first="Ray R." last="Arthur">Ray R. Arthur</name></author></analytic><series><title level="j">Health Security</title><idno type="ISSN">2326-5094</idno><idno type="eISSN">2326-5108</idno><imprint><date when="2017">2017</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><p>To better track public health events in areas where the public health system is unable or unwilling to report the event to appropriate public health authorities, agencies can conduct event-based surveillance, which is defined as the organized collection, monitoring, assessment, and interpretation of unstructured information regarding public health events that may represent an acute risk to public health. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Global Disease Detection Operations Center (GDDOC) was created in 2007 to serve as CDC's platform dedicated to conducting worldwide event-based surveillance, which is now highlighted as part of the “detect” element of the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA). The GHSA works toward making the world more safe and secure from disease threats through building capacity to better “Prevent, Detect, and Respond” to those threats. The GDDOC monitors approximately 30 to 40 public health events each day. In this article, we describe the top threats to public health monitored during 2012 to 2016: avian influenza, cholera, Ebola virus disease, and the vector-borne diseases yellow fever, chikungunya virus, and Zika virus, with updates to the previously described threats from Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and poliomyelitis.</p></div></front><back><div1 type="bibliography"><listBibl><biblStruct></biblStruct><biblStruct></biblStruct><biblStruct></biblStruct><biblStruct></biblStruct><biblStruct></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Christian, Ka" uniqKey="Christian K">KA Christian</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct></biblStruct><biblStruct></biblStruct><biblStruct></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Garten, Rj" uniqKey="Garten R">RJ Garten</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Neumann, G" uniqKey="Neumann G">G 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Health Secur</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Health Secur</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">hs</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Health Security</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2326-5094</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2326-5108</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.</publisher-name><publisher-loc>140 Huguenot Street, 3rd FloorNew Rochelle, NY 10801USA</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">28805465</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">5661857</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">10.1089/hs.2017.0004</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1089/hs.2017.0004</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Original Articles</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>What We Are Watching—Top Global Infectious Disease Threats, 2013-2016: An Update from CDC's Global Disease Detection Operations Center</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><surname>Christian</surname><given-names>Kira A.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Iuliano</surname><given-names>A. Danielle</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Uyeki</surname><given-names>Timothy M.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mintz</surname><given-names>Eric D.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Nichol</surname><given-names>Stuart T.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rollin</surname><given-names>Pierre</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Staples</surname><given-names>J. Erin</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Arthur</surname><given-names>Ray R.</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><author-notes><corresp id="fn1">Kira A. Christian, DVM, is a Veterinary Medical Epidemiologist, and Ray R. Arthur, PhD, is Director; both in the Global Disease Detection Operations Center, Emergency Response and Recovery Branch, Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA. A. Danielle Iuliano, PhD, is a Senior Research Epidemiologist, and Timothy M. Uyeki, MD, is a Medical Epidemiologist; both in the Epidemiology and Prevention Branch, Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, GA. Eric D. Mintz, MD, is a Medical Epidemiologist, Waterborne Diseases Prevention Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Enteric Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, GA. Stuart T. Nichol, PhD, is Chief, and Pierre Rollin, MD, is Team Lead; both in the Viral Special Pathogens Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, GA. J. Erin Staples, MD, PhD, is Medical Officer, Arboviral Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, Ft. Collins, CO. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</corresp><corresp><addr-line>Address correspondence to:</addr-line><addr-line><italic>Kira A. Christian, DVM</italic></addr-line><addr-line><italic>Global Disease Detection Operations Center</italic></addr-line><addr-line><italic>Emergency Response and Recovery Branch</italic></addr-line><addr-line><italic>Division of Global Health Protection</italic></addr-line><institution><italic>Center for Global Health</italic></institution><addr-line><italic>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</italic></addr-line><addr-line><italic>1600 Clifton Rd. NE, MS D-68</italic></addr-line><addr-line><italic>Atlanta, GA 30329</italic></addr-line><italic>Email:</italic><email xlink:href="mailto:dot9@cdc.gov">dot9@cdc.gov</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>01</day><month>10</month><year>2017</year><pmc-comment>string-date: September/October 2017</pmc-comment>
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Christian <italic>et al.,</italic> 2017; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2017</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access"><license-p>This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</ext-link>) which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="hs.2017.0004.pdf"></self-uri><abstract><p>To better track public health events in areas where the public health system is unable or unwilling to report the event to appropriate public health authorities, agencies can conduct event-based surveillance, which is defined as the organized collection, monitoring, assessment, and interpretation of unstructured information regarding public health events that may represent an acute risk to public health. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Global Disease Detection Operations Center (GDDOC) was created in 2007 to serve as CDC's platform dedicated to conducting worldwide event-based surveillance, which is now highlighted as part of the “detect” element of the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA). The GHSA works toward making the world more safe and secure from disease threats through building capacity to better “Prevent, Detect, and Respond” to those threats. The GDDOC monitors approximately 30 to 40 public health events each day. In this article, we describe the top threats to public health monitored during 2012 to 2016: avian influenza, cholera, Ebola virus disease, and the vector-borne diseases yellow fever, chikungunya virus, and Zika virus, with updates to the previously described threats from Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and poliomyelitis.</p></abstract><abstract abstract-type="toc"><p>CDC's Global Disease Detection Operations Center conducts worldwide event-based surveillance; it monitors 30 to 40 public health events each day. This article describes the top threats monitored from 2012 to 2016: avian influenza, cholera, Ebola virus disease, yellow fever, chikungunya virus, and Zika virus, with updates to Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and poliomyelitis.</p></abstract><kwd-group kwd-group-type="author"><title><bold>Keywords:</bold> </title><kwd>Surveillance</kwd><kwd>Infectious diseases</kwd><kwd>Epidemic management/response</kwd><kwd>Avian influenza</kwd><kwd>Viral hemorrhagic fevers</kwd></kwd-group><counts><ref-count count="80"></ref-count><page-count count="10"></page-count></counts></article-meta></front><body><p>D<sc>etecting, reporting, and responding</sc> to significant public health events occurring in areas where the public health system is unable or unwilling to report the event to appropriate public health authorities is a constant challenge for those monitoring global disease activity. To better track public health events in these situations, agencies can conduct event-based surveillance, which is defined as the organized collection, monitoring, assessment, and interpretation of unstructured information regarding public health events that may represent an acute risk to human health.<sup><xref rid="B1" ref-type="bibr">1</xref></sup> When conducting event-based surveillance, information can be collected through formal channels, such as already-established public health surveillance systems; in such instances, event-based surveillance can be complementary to indicator- or case-based surveillance systems that collect information on individual cases rather than events. Event-based surveillance can also be conducted through informal channels, such as through monitoring media reports, blogs, or even social media. Because events reported through informal channels commonly involve unconfirmed media reports, they must be verified before any action is taken.</p><p>In 2004, the US Congress authorized an appropriation of funding to establish a global disease detection program based at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and in 2007, the Global Disease Detection Operations Center (GDDOC) was created to serve as CDC's platform dedicated to conducting worldwide event-based surveillance. Surveillance, including event-based surveillance, is now being highlighted as part of the “detect” element of the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), launched in 2014, which works toward making the world more safe and secure from disease threats through building capacity to better “Prevent, Detect, and Respond” to those threats. Capacity to “detect” disease threats is built by establishing and strengthening global networks for real-time biosurveillance; strengthening rapid, transparent reporting and laboratory sample sharing; strengthening laboratory systems; and deploying an effective biosurveillance workforce.<sup><xref rid="B2" ref-type="bibr">2</xref></sup> Facilitating detection is the Biosurveillance Indications and Warning Analytic Community (BIWAC), which is a self-organized, informal biosurveillance information-sharing group with participants from multiple US government agencies. The BIWAC shares data via unsophisticated web interfaces (eg, password-protected internet interface) and has focused on interagency collaboration and partnership.<sup><xref rid="B3" ref-type="bibr">3</xref></sup> A key member of the BIWAC is the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch (AFHSB), which also houses the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (GEIS).<sup><xref rid="B4" ref-type="bibr">4</xref></sup> Pre-dating the GDDOC, GEIS was created in 1997 to provide a mechanism in the Department of Defense (DoD) to centralize coordination of surveillance efforts conducted by the DoD, including outbreak response, epidemiologic training and capacity building, and the support of research and innovation in the US military and partner organizations.<sup><xref rid="B4" ref-type="bibr">4</xref></sup> The GDDOC has a team of 6 staff and a director with professionally diverse backgrounds, including epidemiology, microbiology, and human, veterinary, and tropical medicine; it is situated in dedicated space located in CDC's Emergency Operations Center (EOC), with which the GDDOC liaises both during GDDOC-supported international deployments of CDC teams and also when the EOC is activated to respond to an international disease event.</p><p>The GDDOC monitors approximately 30 to 40 public health events each day and most closely watches those events that could develop into public health emergencies of international concern to which CDC may be asked to respond bilaterally by the country experiencing the outbreak, through the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), or via both routes. Coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), GOARN is an independent collaboration of institutions and networks ready to respond to all-hazard threats of international importance.<sup><xref rid="B5" ref-type="bibr">5</xref></sup> Typically, the GDDOC monitors outbreaks of infectious disease and, to a lesser extent, events involving other disease threats, including disasters, intoxications, and chemical, radiological, or nuclear events. The GDDOC also monitors outbreaks of unknown etiology, many of which are later determined to have an infectious cause; outbreaks among animals are also monitored for known zoonotic diseases and are continually assessed to determine whether human cases are associated with a particular outbreak.<sup><xref rid="B6" ref-type="bibr">6</xref></sup> The GDDOC was created to alert CDC programs as soon as possible for the purpose of responding rapidly to mitigate the effects of an event, and, by conducting event-based surveillance, the GDDOC is able to better position CDC to respond earlier. Through rapid information gathering, prompt verification, and timely dissemination of information, the GDDOC ensures that CDC is always prepared to respond. CDC response teams can deploy internationally within 24 hours of learning about an outbreak.</p><p>During large-scale, international outbreaks or other public health events, the GDDOC may monitor up to 70 public health events, in different countries, attributable to a single etiology. For example, in November 2016 the GDDOC actively monitored 65 events, of which 29 were events describing autochthonously circulating Zika virus transmission in the Americas.<sup><xref rid="B7" ref-type="bibr">7</xref></sup> When CDC's EOC is activated for such an event, the GDDOC also becomes part of the incident management system (IMS), a temporary, formal organization structure that supports a response, is flexible to meet rapidly changing demands of the response, and then disbands once the response is over.<sup><xref rid="B8" ref-type="bibr">8</xref></sup> The GDDOC's specific role in the incident management system is to serve as part of an international task force (ITF), to facilitate the rapid sharing of outbreak-related information collected during event-based surveillance, which, when verified, assists in informing evidence-based decisions, including those directing how to best position CDC staff, funding, and other resources.</p><p>This report serves as an update to a previously published article, “What We Are Watching: Five Top Global Infectious Disease Threats, 2012: A Perspective from CDC's Global Disease Detection Operations Center,” published in 2013.<sup><xref rid="B6" ref-type="bibr">6</xref></sup> The 5 top potential threats of 2012 were based on subjective judgment, with input from CDC subject matter experts, regarding high transmissibility, disease burden, and severity; established or pandemic potential; disease eradication; and lack of available preventive or treatment interventions. The 5 potential top threats were not selected on the basis of an analytical algorithm or quantitative method. They were: avian influenza A (H5N1), cholera, poliomyelitis, enterovirus-71, and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, with addenda of MERS-Coronavirus and avian influenza A (H7N9), both of which were newly emerging. The same judgment was used to arrive at the top potential threats during 2013 to 2016, and the rationale for the selection of each is provided here. These threats have been attributed to recent or current outbreaks around the world, and future potential international outbreaks are not limited to those described in this article. Further, the GDDOC is continuously monitoring threats that could evolve into international outbreaks in the near future that would warrant placement in future updates to this report.</p><sec id="s001"><title>Top Potential Infectious Disease Threats</title><sec id="s002"><title>Influenza Viruses</title><p>Influenza viruses comprise 4 types: A, B, C, and D. Influenza A viruses are further classified into subtypes on the basis of the characteristics of the 2 main surface glycoproteins, hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA), and numbered accordingly. While only 2 influenza A virus subtypes (H3N2 and H1N1pdm09) are circulating among humans, the natural reservoir for nearly all influenza A viruses is wild waterfowl. Of the 18 HA and 11 NA influenza A virus subtypes, all but H17N10 and H18N11 viruses have been identified in birds. Some influenza A viruses circulate among pigs, and others have been identified in a wide number of animal species.</p><p>Only influenza A viruses cause seasonal influenza epidemics and rare pandemics among people. Influenza B viruses can cause seasonal epidemics, influenza C viruses typically cause mild respiratory illness and do not cause epidemics, and influenza D viruses primarily affect cattle and are not known to cause illness in people.<sup><xref rid="B9" ref-type="bibr">9</xref></sup></p><p>Novel influenza A viruses refer to viruses of animal origin that have infected humans and that are antigenically and genetically distinct from seasonal influenza A viruses circulating among people. We closely monitor novel influenza A viruses, because influenza A viruses continue to evolve and because zoonotic transmission could herald an increasing pandemic influenza health threat. If a novel influenza A virus acquires the ability for sustained human-to-human transmission, a pandemic can result. Accordingly, early detection of pandemic-potential viruses may aid in the control and possible prevention of the next pandemic. Although a swine-origin influenza A virus caused the 2009 H1N1 pandemic,<sup><xref rid="B10" ref-type="bibr">10</xref>,<xref rid="B11" ref-type="bibr">11</xref></sup> and sporadic transmission of swine-origin influenza A viruses to humans (termed “variant viruses”) continue to be detected in the United States and in other countries with appropriate laboratory capacity, the public health threat posed by avian influenza A viruses appears to be higher because of their diversity and wide circulation among birds worldwide; the birds' migratory flyways may also be conducive to spread of influenza A viruses. Furthermore, some previous pandemic influenza A viruses have been partly of avian origin.<sup><xref rid="B11" ref-type="bibr">11</xref></sup></p></sec><sec id="s003"><title>Avian Influenza A Viruses</title><p>Avian influenza A viruses circulate widely among bird populations and can infect domestic poultry and other animal species, as well as causing sporadic human infections. Avian influenza A viruses are classified on the basis of molecular characteristics and pathogenicity criteria as “highly pathogenic” or “low pathogenic,” which generally refers to the extent of disease in infected poultry. Highly pathogenic avian influenza A virus infection of poultry can be rapidly fatal, whereas low-pathogenic avian influenza A virus infection of poultry may be asymptomatic or cause only very mild disease. However, sporadic human infections with either low-pathogenic or highly pathogenic avian influenza A viruses can result in a wide spectrum of illness, ranging from mild to severe to fatal disease. The zoonotic disease potential is attributable to the close relationship humans share with birds: production (ie, as a food source) or companionship. Risk factors for human infection with avian influenza A viruses include direct or close exposure to infected poultry, including backyard poultry, or working at or visiting a live poultry market. Although several novel influenza A viruses have been identified that are circulating among birds (eg, H5N1, H5N6, H6N1, H7N2, H7N3, H7N7, H7N9, H9N2, H10N7, H10N8), 2 subtypes of avian influenza A viruses have caused the highest number of human infections and are of special concern.</p><sec id="s004"><title>Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus</title><p>Highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) virus infection of humans was first identified in 1997 in Hong Kong. The first case was identified in May of that year, and an additional 17 infections were detected in November and December 2017.<sup><xref rid="B12" ref-type="bibr">12</xref></sup> Since then, H5N1 virus infections among humans have been reported in 16 countries, including 1 infection in a person who traveled to Beijing, China, and was diagnosed with pneumonia and meningoencephalitis after returning to Canada in late 2013.<sup><xref rid="B13" ref-type="bibr">13</xref></sup> Between November 2003 and April 2017, a total of 858 infections with 453 deaths in humans attributable to highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) virus infection were reported to WHO.<sup><xref rid="B14" ref-type="bibr">14</xref></sup> Of the 858 infections, 793 (92.4%) have been reported from 5 countries: Egypt (358 infections), Indonesia (199), Vietnam (127), Cambodia (56), and China (53).<sup><xref rid="B14" ref-type="bibr">14</xref></sup> Of all reported infections, 52.8% (453/858) have been fatal.<sup><xref rid="B15" ref-type="bibr">15</xref></sup> H5N1 virus infection can cause rapidly progressive pneumonia and multiple organ failure, leading to death.<sup><xref rid="B16" ref-type="bibr">16</xref></sup> Risk factors include direct or close exposure to sick or dead infected poultry or visiting a live poultry market.<sup><xref rid="B17" ref-type="bibr">17</xref>,<xref rid="B18" ref-type="bibr">18</xref></sup> Highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) virus is of major concern because case clusters representing limited, nonsustained human-to-human transmission has been reported in multiple countries,<sup><xref rid="B19" ref-type="bibr">19-21</xref></sup> and viral evolution is ongoing in infected poultry.</p></sec><sec id="s005"><title>Low-Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Virus</title><p>The first 3 human infections with low-pathogenic avian influenza A (H7N9) virus were reported in China in March 2013 from Shanghai Special Administrative Region (2 infections) and Anhui Province (1), and all were fatal.<sup><xref rid="B22" ref-type="bibr">22</xref>,<xref rid="B23" ref-type="bibr">23</xref></sup> This was the first time that infection with a low-pathogenic avian influenza A virus had caused severe and fatal human disease. Since then, infections in humans with low-pathogenic avian influenza A (H7N9) virus infection have been reported from throughout China.<sup><xref rid="B24" ref-type="bibr">24</xref></sup></p><p>As of April 2017, there were nearly 1,400 infections in humans with avian influenza A (H7N9), with at least 530 deaths reported to WHO,<sup><xref rid="B25" ref-type="bibr">25</xref></sup> including those reported from China's Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Hong Kong (21 infections). Of particular concern are those that were acquired in China and then subsequently exported to other countries and later diagnosed, allowing potential autochthonous transmission in those areas, including Taiwan SAR (5), Canada (2), Macao SAR (2), and Malaysia (1).<sup><xref rid="B25" ref-type="bibr">25</xref></sup> Most reported infections with avian influenza A (H7N9) have been hospitalized with pneumonia, and decedents had multi-organ failure.<sup><xref rid="B26" ref-type="bibr">26</xref></sup></p><p>Risk factors for H7N9 virus infection are visiting or working at a live poultry market and raising backyard poultry in China.<sup><xref rid="B27" ref-type="bibr">27</xref>,<xref rid="B28" ref-type="bibr">28</xref></sup> Prevention measures have included the temporary closure and decontamination of live poultry markets.<sup><xref rid="B29" ref-type="bibr">29</xref>,<xref rid="B30" ref-type="bibr">30</xref></sup> While studies have shown that the exposure potential of avian influenza A (H7N9) virus persists in live poultry markets, closure and decontamination of these markets may rapidly reduce the occurrence of infections of avian influenza A (H7N9) virus in poultry, thus preventing transmission of the virus to humans.<sup><xref rid="B31" ref-type="bibr">31</xref></sup></p><p>During the fifth epidemic of this outbreak, which began October 1, 2016, there was a significant increase in human infections with avian influenza A (H7N9) compared with the first 4 epidemics.<sup><xref rid="B32" ref-type="bibr">32</xref>,<xref rid="B33" ref-type="bibr">33</xref></sup> The number of provinces with H7N9 infections has increased, and some human infections with highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H7N9) virus have been reported in 2017, suggesting ongoing evolution of H7N9 viruses in poultry.<sup><xref rid="B34" ref-type="bibr">34</xref></sup> We are constantly monitoring disease reports that not only report human illness, but that also report detection of H7N9 virus in poultry, including backyard poultry and in live poultry markets.</p></sec></sec><sec id="s006"><title>Cholera</title><p>Cholera remains a top potential threat that we continuously monitor very closely.<sup><xref rid="B6" ref-type="bibr">6</xref></sup> Cholera is an acute gastrointestinal infection caused by ingestion of food or water containing the bacterium <italic>Vibrio cholerae</italic> serogroup O1 or O139.<sup><xref rid="B35" ref-type="bibr">35</xref></sup><italic>V. cholerae</italic> continues to infect, and kill, large numbers of people very quickly; it spreads easily through crowded environments with fractured water and sanitation infrastructure, such as densely populated urban slums and settlements for internally displaced persons. In 2015, 42 countries reported to WHO a total of 172,454 cases with 1,304 deaths attributable to cholera, although an estimated 2.8 million cases and 91,000 deaths are thought to occur each year.<sup><xref rid="B36" ref-type="bibr">36</xref>,<xref rid="B37" ref-type="bibr">37</xref></sup> Of the 172,454 reported cases, 71,176 cases (41.3%) and 937 deaths (74.6%) were reported from sub-Saharan Africa;<sup><xref rid="B38" ref-type="bibr">38</xref></sup> none of these cases was imported.</p><p>Notably, cases were reported from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (19,182 cases), Kenya (13,291), Tanzania (11,563), Mozambique (8,739), Somalia (7,536), and Nigeria (5,290). These 6 countries together reported 821 deaths, resulting in a case-fatality proportion of 1.25%; no cases were reported from northern Africa.<sup><xref rid="B38" ref-type="bibr">38</xref></sup> Cholera continues to be a threat in sub-Saharan Africa, the region with the lowest coverage of improved water and sanitation and a multitude of health system challenges. Epidemic cholera creates an additional burden on health facilities and personnel already stressed by HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and other infectious and noninfectious causes of morbidity and mortality (eg, malnutrition).</p><p>Asia reported 64,590 cases with 30 deaths to WHO in 2015, with most cases reported from Afghanistan (58,064; 89.9%) and Iraq (4,965; 7.7%); of the 64,590 cases, 57 were reported to be imported cases, into Iran (36), Bahrain (8), Japan (7), Kuwait (5), and Oman (1).<sup><xref rid="B38" ref-type="bibr">38</xref></sup></p><p>Of increasing concern over the past several years is the establishment of cholera in the Americas, beginning with Haiti, which first reported cases in association with an outbreak in October 2010 that ultimately resulted in 754,972 cases and 8,863 deaths through the end of 2015. A total of 36,045 cases were reported in 2015 alone, which represents an increase of 30% in case counts from 2014. Despite the continued efforts of the Minstère de la Santé Publique et de la Population, cholera has maintained a presence in the country since the 2010 outbreak. And like sub-Saharan Africa, with a less than ideal healthcare infrastructure, the well-proven risk of explosive epidemics in Haiti and of spread to other nations remains as long as cholera is present.<sup><xref rid="B39" ref-type="bibr">39</xref></sup></p><p>To combat endemic and epidemic cholera, in 2013 WHO created the world's first oral cholera vaccine (OCV) stockpile, which continues to expand.<sup><xref rid="B40" ref-type="bibr">40</xref></sup> Since operations began, a total of 21 oral cholera vaccine deployments of about 4 million doses to 11 countries have been used in various contexts: humanitarian crises in Cameroon, Haiti, Iraq, Nepal, South Sudan, and the United Republic of Tanzania; outbreaks in Guinea and Malawi; and in endemic areas such as Bangladesh and DRC.<sup><xref rid="B41" ref-type="bibr">41</xref></sup> Also of note, to prevent international spread of cholera, particularly among travelers, is the recent licensure and availability of <italic>Vaxchora</italic>™, a single-dose, live attenuated, oral cholera vaccine in the United States, the first cholera vaccine to be licensed in the United States in many decades and the only one that is available in the United States.<sup><xref rid="B42" ref-type="bibr">42</xref></sup></p><p>In 2016, GDDOC closely watched and reported on widespread and persistent epidemics of cholera in Haiti, Kenya, Tanzania, DRC, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Burundi, Benin, Ethiopia (acute watery diarrhea), Djibouti, and Yemen and have responded to requests for assistance or otherwise provided technical assistance to Haiti, Kenya, Tanzania, and DRC. We will continue to monitor reports of cholera, particularly those reports that could signify exportation into a country with an already-weakened healthcare system, placing the country at risk for <italic>Vibrio cholerae</italic> to become established, as occurred in Haiti.</p></sec><sec id="s007"><title>Ebola Virus Disease</title><p>Ebola virus disease (EVD) was first discovered in 1976 when an outbreak of an acute viral hemorrhagic fever occurred in what was formerly northern Zaire, with secondary and tertiary cases reported in the city of Kinshasa. Signs and symptoms were nonspecific at clinical onset but progressed to include others such as sore throat, fever, maculopapular rash, abdominal pain, and bleeding.<sup><xref rid="B43" ref-type="bibr">43</xref></sup> Ultimately, there were 318 cases reported in association with this outbreak, with 280 deaths. Laboratory investigations revealed the outbreak was caused by a virus similar to Marburg virus (discovered in 1969), and it was named Ebola virus. Ebola virus is now a member of the genus <italic>Ebolavirus</italic> (in the Filoviridae family), which contains 5 related virus species: <italic>Ebola, Sudan, Reston, Taï Forest,</italic> and <italic>Bundibugyo ebolaviruses</italic>. Since their discovery, these viruses have been the cause of more than 30 separate reported outbreaks.<sup><xref rid="B44" ref-type="bibr">44</xref></sup> Fatality rates vary between the viruses and among outbreaks, however; for example, <italic>Reston ebolavirus</italic> infection does not cause disease in humans, only in nonhuman primates.<sup><xref rid="B45" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>,<xref rid="B46" ref-type="bibr">46</xref></sup></p><p>Outbreaks of EVD had been limited to localized outbreaks in sub-Saharan Africa or laboratory exposures until March 2014, when approximately 50 cases (with 10 deaths) of an unspecified viral hemorrhagic fever were reported in the forested southeastern prefectures of Macenta and Gueckedou, Guinea, close to the border with Sierra Leone. Signs and symptoms associated with these cases included high fever, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding. Specimens tested at Institut Pasteur's BSL-4 facility in Lyon, France, indicated that these cases were attributable to a filovirus, one of a family of single-stranded negative-sense RNA viruses that can cause severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates.<sup><xref rid="B47" ref-type="bibr">47</xref></sup> On March 22, the outbreak was confirmed as an Ebola virus (<italic>Zaire ebolavirus</italic>) associated outbreak. Cases had increased to a total of 86 cases with 59 deaths; all cases were epidemiologically linked and included healthcare workers.<sup><xref rid="B48" ref-type="bibr">48</xref></sup> Later that March, cases began to be reported from other Guinean prefectures, including the capital Conakry, and from Liberia in patients who had traveled to Guinea prior to illness onset; additional cases began to be reported from Sierra Leone and Nigeria.</p><p>In July and August 2014, based on widespread transmission and crossing of international borders, CDC's EOC was activated to provide an agency-wide response to the outbreak, and WHO declared the outbreak a public health event of international concern (PHEIC), defined as an extraordinary event determined to constitute a public health risk to other states parties through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response.<sup><xref rid="B49" ref-type="bibr">49</xref></sup> National and international partners put in place a multitude of actions to mitigate the enlarging outbreak, including activation of national disaster and emergency management mechanisms, support of clinical and diagnostic facilities, and coordination across communities, including medical facilities, as well as anthropological support to involve the general population, traditional healers, and religious entities.<sup><xref rid="B50" ref-type="bibr">50</xref></sup></p><p>Ultimately, this outbreak in West Africa grew to be the largest EVD outbreak ever recorded. As of March 2016, a total of 28,646 suspected, probable, and laboratory-confirmed cases with 11,323 deaths had been reported from Guinea (3,811 cases; 2,543 deaths), Liberia (10,675; 4,809), Sierra Leone (14,124; 3,956), Nigeria (20; 8), Mali (8; 6), and Senegal (1 case), resulting from importation of cases and minimal sustained transmission. The remainder of cases were a result of importation or travel: Italy (1 case), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), and the United States (4 cases; 1 death).<sup><xref rid="B51" ref-type="bibr">51</xref></sup></p><p>We monitored this global outbreak very closely because of the unforeseen explosion of cases and transmission across international borders. This occurred as a result of weakened or fractured healthcare infrastructure, continued infection of healthcare workers, and anthropologic or cultural concerns, such as families hiding their deceased family members—all contributing to propagation of the outbreak. The outbreak was declared over in June 2016; however, we continue to closely monitor any reports, including media reports, from West Africa in hopes of quickly identifying any additional EVD that could be a result of, for example, sexual transmission from EVD survivors.<sup><xref rid="B52" ref-type="bibr">52</xref>,<xref rid="B53" ref-type="bibr">53</xref></sup> (Recent studies have indicated that Ebola virus can survive in semen for extended periods of time.<sup><xref rid="B54" ref-type="bibr">54</xref>,<xref rid="B55" ref-type="bibr">55</xref></sup>) Not limiting ourselves to Ebola virus, we closely monitor any reports of cases that could appear to be a viral hemorrhagic fever, so we may provide early warning for a rapid response to prevent another massive global outbreak.</p></sec><sec id="s008"><title>Vector-Borne Diseases</title><p>Three vector-borne viruses have caused large outbreaks of disease since 2013: yellow fever, chikungunya, and Zika viruses. While yellow fever virus caused a relatively discrete outbreak originating in Angola with exported cases and has been declared over, chikungunya and Zika virus continue to spread across the Americas. The GDDOC intensely monitors vector-borne diseases for their ability to spread quickly via a competent arthropod vector, most notably <italic>Aedes aegypti</italic> and <italic>Aedes albopictus</italic>. Further, the GDDOC was and continues to be part of CDC's response to the Zika virus outbreak, serving on the EOC's international task force. While the EOC was not activated for the recent yellow fever outbreak or the continuing spread of chikungunya virus, the GDDOC focused event-based surveillance on these 2 pathogens and also assisted in the deployment of staff to sub-Saharan Africa for the yellow fever outbreak.</p><sec id="s009"><title>Yellow Fever</title><p>Yellow fever warrants a place on our list of top potential threats to monitor because of the explosive outbreak that began in late 2015 in Angola. The outbreak spread to all provinces in the country and to adjacent DRC in 2016.<sup><xref rid="B56" ref-type="bibr">56</xref></sup> The first travel-related cases of yellow fever disease since 2002 were identified in association with this outbreak, with travel-associated cases exported to China (11 cases), Kenya (2 cases), and Mauritania (1 case).<sup><xref rid="B57" ref-type="bibr">57</xref>,<xref rid="B58" ref-type="bibr">58</xref></sup></p><p>Yellow fever can present as an acute viral hemorrhagic disease and is fatal in 20% to 50% of severe cases. It is caused by yellow fever virus, the prototypic virus in the genus <italic>Flavivirus</italic>. The virus is transmitted through the bite of a mosquito and is endemic to sub-Saharan Africa and tropical areas of South America.<sup><xref rid="B59" ref-type="bibr">59</xref></sup> Large epidemics of yellow fever occur when infected people introduce the virus into heavily populated areas with <italic>Ae. aegypti,</italic> the urban vector, leading to autochthonous transmission of the virus that can quickly lead to outbreaks of great magnitude.</p><p>The Angolan Public Health Institute first notified WHO of 4 cases of a febrile jaundice syndrome with bleeding on December 30, 2015. Of these patients, 3 had already died, and the other died on December 31, 2015. All cases were young men residing in Luanda, Angola, and several of them reportedly had proof of vaccination against yellow fever (eg, in possession of a yellow card). Laboratory testing conducted at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, consisted of testing for filoviruses, arenaviruses, and bunyaviruses, as well as for chikungunya and dengue viruses, by using reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR); all tests were negative.<sup><xref rid="B59" ref-type="bibr">59</xref></sup> However, a real-time RT-PCR for yellow fever virus produced positive results for samples from 3 of the patients. The results were reported back to the Angolan Public Health Institute on January 19, 2016, and a subsequent investigation determined that the cases had not been vaccinated against yellow fever; they had falsified yellow cards.<sup><xref rid="B60" ref-type="bibr">60</xref></sup></p><p>Since that time, a total of 4,347 suspected cases with 377 deaths have been reported to WHO; of these, 884 cases and 121 deaths were laboratory confirmed.<sup><xref rid="B61" ref-type="bibr">61</xref></sup> Since the start of the outbreak, laboratory-confirmed cases have been reported from 80 districts in 16 of 18 provinces. Autochthonous transmission was reported in 45 districts in 12 provinces.<sup><xref rid="B61" ref-type="bibr">61</xref></sup> The last confirmed case had symptom onset on June 23, 2016.</p><p>In early 2016, the DRC reported many cases of yellow fever disease in travelers going to and from Angola. By May 2016, the first autochthonous case associated with the outbreak in Angola was recognized in the country, with subsequent local cases identified in several additional provinces in the west of the country, including the capital of Kinshasa. A total of 2,987 suspected cases were reported from all 26 provinces, with 78 cases from 8 provinces having laboratory confirmation. The last confirmed case had symptom onset on July 12, 2016.</p><p>Additional suspected cases continue to occur, but none have been confirmed by laboratory testing. The response to this outbreak continues in both countries, including ongoing vaccination campaigns: by October 25, 2016, approximately 20 million doses of yellow fever vaccine have been distributed in reactive, preemptive, and preventive emergency vaccination campaigns in Angola and 9.4 million have been distributed in the DRC.<sup><xref rid="B61" ref-type="bibr">61</xref></sup> The large demand for vaccine created by these outbreaks led to an unprecedented shortage of vaccine and to the approval by the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization at WHO to use fractional doses of the vaccine, which was done in Kinshasa to preempt further spread.</p><p>In May 2016, WHO held a meeting of the emergency committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) concerning yellow fever. Although the committee did not declare yellow fever a public health emergency of international concern, they did note that the urban yellow fever outbreaks in Angola and the DRC were a serious public health event warranting intensified national action and enhanced international support.<sup><xref rid="B62" ref-type="bibr">62</xref></sup> With an abundant competent mosquito vector, large susceptible populations, and limitations of vaccine supply, yellow fever can potentially spread quickly throughout a population, including to those outside of traditional areas known to be endemic, thereby warranting sustained, focused surveillance by the GDDOC.</p></sec><sec id="s010"><title>Chikungunya</title><p>Prior to 2013, chikungunya virus had not been reported in the Americas. On December 6, 2013, colleagues at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control informed the GDDOC of laboratory-confirmed autochthonous cases of chikungunya being reported on St. Martin, a Caribbean island and overseas collectivity of France.<sup><xref rid="B63" ref-type="bibr">63</xref></sup> Chikungunya virus is an alphavirus spread by <italic>Aedes stegomyia</italic> mosquitoes, with humans serving as the primary reservoir during epidemics. The virus can cause fast-moving, expansive outbreaks—for example, during 2005-06, an estimated 40% of the population of La Réunion was infected with chikungunya virus;<sup><xref rid="B64" ref-type="bibr">64</xref></sup> in 2006, an estimated 1.38 million people in India were infected;<sup><xref rid="B65" ref-type="bibr">65</xref></sup> and during 2008-09, Thailand reported more than 49,000 cases of chikungunya in 50 provinces of that country.<sup><xref rid="B66" ref-type="bibr">66</xref></sup> During the first year of the outbreak in the Americas, the disease spread to 43 countries or territories, with more than 1.1 million suspected cases reported to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) from affected areas. As of early November 2016, there have been an additional 1.2 million suspected autochthonous transmission cases reported to PAHO from January 2015 to November 2016.<sup><xref rid="B67" ref-type="bibr">67</xref></sup></p><p>Chikungunya virus causes fever, rash, and most notably severe arthralgia; it is rarely fatal, but the arthralgia can be severely debilitating and, in some people, initiate a lifetime of chronic pain and disability.<sup><xref rid="B68" ref-type="bibr">68</xref></sup> There is neither a specific treatment for chikungunya nor a vaccine to prevent it; care is typically supportive.<sup><xref rid="B67" ref-type="bibr">67</xref></sup> The GDDOC continues to conduct event-based surveillance for reports of illness potentially attributable to chikungunya virus and informs leaders of findings. Further, streamlined communications with CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases as well as with PAHO allow for prioritization of resources, including staff and funding.</p></sec><sec id="s011"><title>Zika Virus</title><p>Zika virus was identified in 1947 when it was discovered in a sentinel rhesus monkey during routine surveillance for yellow fever in the Zika Forest near Entebbe, Uganda. The first human cases were identified in 1952 in Uganda and Tanzania,<sup><xref rid="B69" ref-type="bibr">69</xref></sup> with few reports of human infection in Asia and Africa over the next several decades.<sup><xref rid="B70" ref-type="bibr">70</xref></sup> However, in 2007 on Yap Island, Micronesia, an outbreak of an unknown illness among patients with signs and symptoms including rash, conjunctivitis, and arthralgia was identified to be attributable to Zika virus; the outbreak resulted in 49 laboratory confirmed and 59 probable cases of Zika virus and led to more than 70% of the population being infected with the virus.<sup><xref rid="B71" ref-type="bibr">71</xref></sup> Starting in 2013, outbreaks throughout the Pacific islands were attributed to Zika virus, resulting in thousands of suspected and probable infections as well as an increase in the incidence of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS).<sup><xref rid="B63" ref-type="bibr">63</xref></sup> In March 2015, Brazil notified WHO of an unknown illness among humans with rash, occurring in northeastern states; tests for chikungunya, measles, rubella, parvovirus B19, and enterovirus were negative.<sup><xref rid="B69" ref-type="bibr">69</xref></sup> It was not until the following month that Bahia State Laboratory tested samples that yielded positive results for Zika virus, and in May Brazil's national reference laboratory confirmed Zika virus in a patient's blood by RT-PCR, confirming nationwide circulation of the virus.<sup><xref rid="B69" ref-type="bibr">69</xref></sup> Since that time, Zika virus has spread across the Americas, and as of September 2016, nearly 50 countries and territories in the Americas have reported autochthonous, vector-borne transmission of the virus. A total of 73 countries and territories worldwide have reported evidence of mosquito-borne Zika virus transmission since 2007, with 71 of those reports since 2015.<sup><xref rid="B72" ref-type="bibr">72</xref></sup></p><p>Zika virus is in the genus <italic>Flavivirus</italic> and, like dengue and chikungunya, is transmitted primarily by <italic>Aedes stegomyia</italic> species mosquitoes, notably <italic>Ae. aegypti</italic> and <italic>Ae. albopictus</italic>. Both mosquito species are present in the United States, with <italic>Ae. albopictus</italic> having a much wider range.<sup><xref rid="B73" ref-type="bibr">73</xref></sup> However, unlike chikungunya or dengue viruses, Zika virus has been documented to be spread through sexual transmission, complicating the transmission dynamics of this virus. Zika virus infections are often asymptomatic or produce a mild rash illness among healthy adults and children infected after birth. However, in addition to its association with GBS, Zika virus infections in pregnancy now have been associated with congenital infection typically resulting in microcephaly and other nervous system defects.<sup><xref rid="B74" ref-type="bibr">74</xref></sup> It is the association with the neurologic diseases, both microcephaly and GBS, that prompted WHO to declare the neurologic diseases and their potential association with Zika virus a public health event of international concern,<sup><xref rid="B75" ref-type="bibr">75</xref></sup> and which has caused Zika virus to be one of the GDDOC's top potential global threats that we are monitoring.</p><p>With the uncontrolled transmission of the virus by wide-ranging <italic>Aedes</italic> mosquitoes and limited ability to control these populations, the threat of an increasingly large epidemic of microcephaly throughout the Americas and other regions is very real. The effect of microcephaly on newborns is devastating, potentially resulting in life-long developmental challenges for these infants,<sup><xref rid="B74" ref-type="bibr">74</xref></sup> which will create not only healthcare and emotional challenges for families, but also place an inordinate burden on healthcare systems and public health infrastructure attempting to provide long-term care for these children. We will continue to monitor Zika virus epidemiology and relay additional information about its spread, pathogenesis, and clinical outcomes as our knowledge about this virus continues to evolve.</p></sec></sec><sec id="s012"><title>Updates</title><sec id="s013"><title>Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (MERS-CoV)</title><p>As of mid-December 2016, a total of 1,864 cases of MERS-CoV with at least 659 deaths had been reported to WHO from the Middle Eastern and northern African countries of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Jordan, Oman, Iran, Tunisia, Kuwait, Algeria, Yemen, and Lebanon; exported cases were also reported in the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Turkey, Germany, the Philippines, and the Republic of Korea.<sup><xref rid="B76" ref-type="bibr">76</xref></sup> Of note in the Republic of Korea, an exported case of MERS-CoV in an emergency department patient with a history of travel to Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar resulted in an outbreak of 186 cases of MERS-CoV with 36 deaths. Although the index exposure occurred in a large, crowded emergency facility, the affected hospital and the health ministry were quickly able to mitigate the outbreak.<sup><xref rid="B77" ref-type="bibr">77</xref></sup> This event in South Korea demonstrates how quickly MERS-CoV can be transmitted from person to person in a tertiary care hospital in a developed health infrastructure, further underscoring the necessity to monitor cases of MERS-CoV.</p></sec><sec id="s014"><title>Poliomyelitis</title><p>By the end of 2012, 223 confirmed cases of wild poliomyelitis (WPV) were reported from countries with endemically circulating wild poliovirus: Afghanistan (37), Pakistan (58), and Nigeria (122), and 5 cases were reported from Chad. Since then, cases of wild poliomyelitis have declined, after a peak in 2013 (416 cases), trending downward through 2014 (359 cases), 2015 (74 cases), and, as of April 19, 2017, 5 cases of wild poliomyelitis had been reported to WHO, compared with 11 cases at the same time in 2016. As of April 19, 2017, no cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) had been reported to WHO compared with 3 cases at the same time in 2016.<sup><xref rid="B78" ref-type="bibr">78</xref></sup> Nigeria, which had been polio-free during 2015 and was removed from WHO's polio-endemic list in September of that year,<sup><xref rid="B79" ref-type="bibr">79</xref></sup> unfortunately reported cases during 2016, placing it back on the endemic list.<sup><xref rid="B80" ref-type="bibr">80</xref></sup> Monitoring polio will continue to be important because of the debilitating neurologic disease poliovirus causes, but it will also be paramount in the post-eradication era, as even 1 case will represent an international public health emergency.</p></sec></sec></sec><sec id="s015"><title>Summary</title><p>This report describes top potential global infectious disease threats that the GDDOC was monitoring during 2013-2016, and does not necessarily describe those public health events that CDC finds most important or events that require the most resources. 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