ACRONYMS

AFIERA

Air Force Institute for Environment, Safety and Occupational Health Risk Analysis

AFIP

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

AFRIMS

Armed Forces Research Institute of the Medical Sciences

APEC

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation

CDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CENTCOM

Central Command

CINC

Commanders in Chief

DARPA

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DoD GEIS

Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections System

ESSENCE

Electronic Surveillance System for the Emergency Notification of Community based Epidemics

ETEC

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia (E.) coli

EWORS

Early Warning Outbreak Response System

FDA

Food and Drug Administration

FRI

Febrile Respiratory Illness

FY

Fiscal Year

GISP

Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project

IOM

Institute of Medicine

MEDCOM

Medical Command

MHS

Military Health System

MIDRP

Military Infectious Disease Research Program

MOA

Memorandum of Agreement

MQ

Mefloquine

MRMC

Medical Research & Materiel Command

NAMRU 2

Naval Medical Research Unit   2

NAMRU 3

Naval Medical Research Unit   3

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCA

National Capital Area

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