TheNuclearThreatInitiative supports a groundbreaking surveillance system in the Middle East, called the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance.
Start-up cash comes from America's Department of Energy, theNuclearThreatInitiative, a private Washington-based group that has long promoted nuclear clean-up activities around the world, and the Norwegian government.
In Washington, Louise Gresham, director of health security and epidemiology at theNuclearThreatInitiative -- which also works to reduce global biological threats -- looks at a report tracking the spread of H1N1 in the Middle East.