NHRC

Naval Health Research Center

NIH

National Institutes of Health

NMRCD

Naval Medical Research Center

Detachment

PCR

Polymerase Chain Reaction

PDD

Presidential Decision Directive

PHLIS

Public Health Laboratory Information

System

RVF

Rift Valley Fever

SOUTHCOM Southern Command

STD

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

STDPC

Sexually Transmitted Disease

Prevention Committee

TSN

The Surveillance Network

USACHPPM

U.S. Army Center for Health

Promotion and Preventive Medicine

USAID

U.S. Agency for International

Development

USMI

U.S. Medicine Institute for Health

Studies

USAMRIID

U.S. Army Medical Research Institute

of Infectious Diseases

USAMRU K

U.S. Army Research Unit   Kenya

VEE

Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis

VSAT

Very Small Aperture Terminal

WHO

World Health Organization

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