CHAPTER 7: CRITICAL NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES

 

Emerging Infectious Diseases are not preventable, however mitigating their impact on the operational integrity of critical national infrastructure, private industry, and global trade is possible.” – Elhadad & Elhadad, 2014

We rely upon our Critical National Infrastructures (CNI) in both our professional and personal lives, and we expect these essential services to be constantly available. In all honesty, I think that for most countries in the developed world, the CNI is taken for granted. In addition to healthcare covered in the next chapter, CNI would typically include communications, emergency services, energy, financial services, food, government, health, transport and water. This chapter considers ...

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