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Daniel R. Lucey is an American physician, researcher, senior scholar and adjunct professor of infectious diseases at
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, and a
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in
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at the
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, where he has co-organised an exhibition on eight viral outbreaks. Lucey comes from a military family in California. He graduated in
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from
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in 1977, and after gaining an
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in 1982, he worked with people in San Francisco who had a previously unknown disease, later known as
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. He subsequently gained a
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from
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. He spent much of the 1990s studying HIV and vaccines. As chief of infectious diseases at the
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, he had worked on preparations on what to do should there be an intentional release of an infectious agent. This came into operation when following the
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of 2001, stockpiles of antibiotics were ready for the subsequent
anthrax attacks The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax (a portmanteau of "America" and " anthrax", from its FBI case name), occurred in the United States over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 ...
. He later devised a staging system for inhalation anthrax and advocated the stockpiling of
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s for its treatment should toxic fluid accumulate around the lungs. In 2003, Lucey was involved in a campaign to administer
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vaccinations to hundreds of thousands of workers. The following year, he gave testimony following reports of high lead levels in Washington DC's public water system. The 'Lead Free Drinking Water Act of 2004' was introduced the following month. He has analysed, monitored and responded to several
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, including the
SARS Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1), the first identified strain of the SARS coronavirus species, ''seve ...
outbreaks of 2003 in China, Hong Kong and Canada, the subsequent H5N1 bird flu in South East Asia and Egypt, H1N1 flu in Egypt,
nipah virus Nipah virus, scientific name ''Nipah henipavirus'', is a bat-borne virus that causes Nipah virus infection in humans and other animals, a disease with a high mortality rate. Numerous disease outbreaks caused by Nipah virus have occurred in Sou ...
in Bangladesh,
MERS Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a viral respiratory infection caused by ''Middle East respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus'' (MERS-CoV). Symptoms may range from none, to mild, to severe. Typical symptoms include fever, cough, ...
in the Middle East and Republic of Korea, Ebola in Western Africa,
Zika Zika fever, also known as Zika virus disease or simply Zika, is an infectious disease caused by the Zika virus. Most cases have no symptoms, but when present they are usually mild and can resemble dengue fever. Symptoms may include fever, red ...
in Brazil,
yellow fever Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration. In most cases, symptoms include fever, chills, loss of appetite, nausea, muscle pains – particularly in the back – and headaches. Symptoms typically improve within five days. ...
in China,
chikungunya Chikungunya is an infection caused by the ''Chikungunya virus'' (CHIKV). Symptoms include fever and joint pains. These typically occur two to twelve days after exposure. Other symptoms may include headache, muscle pain, joint swelling, and a ra ...
in Pakistan,
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in China and plague in Madagascar, followed by the 2018–20 Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease, caused by
SARS-CoV-2 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) is a strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), the respiratory illness responsible for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The virus previously had a ...
, which began in 2019. His awards include the 2001
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, and the
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's Commander's Award for Public Service, for the care he gave to those injured at
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on September 11, 2001.


Early life and education

Daniel R. Lucey was born at
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, into a military family in
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, California and spent his childhood in various parts of the United States including Florida, Ohio, Virginia, South Carolina, Pennsylvania and North Dakota. In 1973, he joined
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, from where he graduated in
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in 1977.Lucey, Daniel R. (2015)
Daniel R. Lucey: Curriculum Vitae
He then gained admission to study medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, now known as
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, when as a medical student in 1979, he spent two months at the Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, South Africa, recalling later that this was his "first exposure to infectious disease".


Early medical career

He gained an
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in 1982, following which he began his early training at the
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(UCSF), where he worked with people who were suffering from a previously unknown disease, later known as
HIV/AIDS Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual ...
. In 1988 he gained a
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from
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, where he had gained a fellowship of the
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. From 1988 to 1990 he was attending physician at
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,
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, San Antonio, Texas. From 1992 to 1998, he was attending physician in infectious diseases and internal medicine at the
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, Bethesda. In 1993, while he was studying HIV at the
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, he became a fellow of the
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, Three years later, he was appointed to work on biodefense vaccines, vaccines for
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and B, and vaccines for
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and HIV, at the
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at the
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(FDA). Subsequently, in 1998, he was appointed to HIV research as viral immunologist at the
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.


Washington Hospital Center

In 2001, as chief of infectious diseases at the
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during the
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, he had worked on preparations on what to do should there be an intentional release of an infectious agent.


Anthrax

Lucey contributed to the preparedness of the hospital for the subsequent
2001 anthrax attacks The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax (a portmanteau of "America" and "anthrax", from its FBI case name), occurred in the United States over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 ...
by arranging stock piles of antibiotics. Several media companies and two U.S. senators had received letters containing anthrax spores, infecting 22 people in total, five of whom died. Of these cases, 11 involved the skin and 11 were in the lungs (inhalation anthrax). Antibiotics needed to be given quickly. Noting that the first case of anthrax presented with meningitis, Lucey emphasised that should a diagnosis of anthrax meningitis ever be made, a public health response should be triggered. He has published works on inhalation anthrax, particularly the staging of the disease which he divided into four: "asymptomatic, early-prodromal, intermediate-progressive and late-fulminant", with survival being more likely with earlier administration of antibiotics. Learning from the experiences of medical professionals who treated the victims of the 1979 anthrax outbreak in the city of Sverdlovsk, he developed an understanding of treating anthrax affecting the lungs by draining the resulting infected and toxic lung fluid, and injecting antibiotics directly into the
pleural space The pleural cavity, pleural space, or interpleural space is the potential space between the pleurae of the pleural sac that surrounds each lung. A small amount of serous pleural fluid is maintained in the pleural cavity to enable lubrication bet ...
. As a result, he has endorsed the stock-piling of items ready to perform pleural drainage should it be necessary. A later study published in the ''
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'', showed the importance of detecting anthrax early and administering antibiotics within hours of a bioterrorist attack, as well as stockpiling
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s to perform lung fluid drainage.


Smallpox vaccination program

In 2003, Lucey was involved in a campaign to administer smallpox vaccinations to hundreds of thousands of workers. Despite the mounting cost of the campaign and doubts about it being necessary, Lucey in 2003, as director of the Center for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases at the Washington Hospital Center, endorsed the vaccination of healthcare workers and stated that "the threat is definitely real. This is a dangerous time," and advised "for ourselves to be protected, and to then be able to take care of patients and contribute to a large-scale vaccination program."


Lead contamination

In February 2004, a few days after starting work with biodefense at the Washington DC department of health, Lucey was present at a taskforce meeting on the high lead levels in Washington DC's public water system. He became involved in the subsequent investigations and gave testimony on April 7, 2004, to the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water Subcommittee. The 'Lead Free Drinking Water Act of 2004' was introduced the following month.


Georgetown University Medical Center

Since 2004, as adjunct professor of medicine and infectious diseases at
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(GUMC), he has taught students on bioterrorism and emerging infectious disease. In 2014, he became a senior scholar with the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. In the same year, as an anthropology research associate, he co-organised an exhibition on epidemics at the
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. Along with the institute's team, he worked with 30 colleagues from around the world to produce an exhibit of eight viral outbreaks, beginning with the quote "our world is interconnected more than ever before – by global travel and trade, technology, and even our viruses", and ending with "what's next is already here; we just haven't recognized it yet".


Emerging infectious diseases

Science writer, Laura Stephenson Carter, wrote in the 2012 alumni album of Dartmouth College, that for over 30 years Lucey has been "chasing things you wouldn't want to catch". He coined the term "pan-epidemic", and between 2003 and 2016, he spent time researching infectious disease outbreaks in several countries.


SARS 2003

In 2003 he worked on the
SARS Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1), the first identified strain of the SARS coronavirus species, ''seve ...
outbreaks in
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China, Hong Kong and Toronto, Canada, where the affected hospitals came to be known as SARS hospitals. At the time, regarding
personal protective equipment Personal protective equipment (PPE) is protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer's body from injury or infection. The hazards addressed by protective equipment include physical, e ...
, Lucey stated that "getting all hospital workers to comply with standard infection control procedures—all the time—was a key to stopping an outbreak of SARS in 2003 ... someone stood there and monitored you to make sure you followed, step by step by step, putting it on properly and taking it off."


Bird flu

Subsequently, he worked on the H5N1 bird flu outbreak in Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and Egypt, and the H1N1 flu in Egypt.


MERS

He worked on
MERS Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a viral respiratory infection caused by ''Middle East respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus'' (MERS-CoV). Symptoms may range from none, to mild, to severe. Typical symptoms include fever, cough, ...
in the
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and
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. Having studied MERS, he considers it “in terms of a super-spreading event rather than a super spreader”.


Ebola in Western Africa

He treated people with ebola during the ebola outbreak in Liberia, Guinea and Sierre Leone, where he helped in the isolation unit at Connaught Hospital in
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.Phillip, Abbey
Rise in new cases shows Ebola has not released its deadly grip
''The Washington Post'', June 12, 2015


Zika

In 2016, in the '' Journal of the American Medical Association'', Lucey and his colleague
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called for the zika epidemic in the Americas to be announced a
public health emergency of international concern A public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) is a formal declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) of "an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through the internatio ...
(PHEIC), criticizing the WHO for not escalating their response sooner, and stating that "it is far better to be overprepared than to wait until a zika epidemic spins out of control".


Nipah virus

Lucey visited Bangladesh during its
nipah virus Nipah virus, scientific name ''Nipah henipavirus'', is a bat-borne virus that causes Nipah virus infection in humans and other animals, a disease with a high mortality rate. Numerous disease outbreaks caused by Nipah virus have occurred in Sou ...
outbreak of 2004, caused by the consumption of date palm sap contaminated by
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s. More than a decade later, when in 2018, nipah occurred in Kerala, India, where it had never previously emerged, he responded that “the medical and public health response in Kerala prevented it from becoming much worse”. His report in 2018, published in the ''
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'', called the incident in Kerala "a bellwether of that potential risk of a Nipah pandemic". He warned of a potential epidemic of nipah virus, and stated at the time that "immediate enhanced preparation measures should include training on personal protective equipment (PPE), infection prevention and control, diagnostic testing, and clinical management protocols". The report advocated the need for countries that had no past experience of nipah outbreaks, to make preparations.


Yellow fever

On the question of whether Asia will ever encounter an outbreak of yellow fever, Lucey showed concern when, in 2016, an outbreak in Angola led to several infected travellers reaching China. He worked on yellow fever during that outbreak, highlighting difficulties should mass quantities of vaccine be required.


Other emerging infectious diseases

Other involvements have included the
chikungunya Chikungunya is an infection caused by the ''Chikungunya virus'' (CHIKV). Symptoms include fever and joint pains. These typically occur two to twelve days after exposure. Other symptoms may include headache, muscle pain, joint swelling, and a ra ...
outbreak in Pakistan, H7N9 influenza in China and the plague in Madagascar. He was one expert who called for the 2018-20 ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to be declared a PHEIC in July 2019.


COVID-19 pandemic

Reporting on his views of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease, caused by
SARS-CoV-2 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) is a strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), the respiratory illness responsible for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The virus previously had a ...
, which began in 2019, Lucey recalled that "the SARS outbreak in Toronto in 2003 started with one missed case". The new coronavirus outbreak, reported by the
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on December 31, 2019, has been associated with the
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, a
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in Wuhan, China. When Chinese researchers published their report in January 2020 in ''The Lancet'', on the first 41 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus, Lucey hypothesised that if the data was accurate, with 12 of the 41 with no direct link to the market and the earliest reported onset of symptoms being December 1, 2019, and with a calculated incubation period of up to two weeks, the virus may have already been quietly circulating among humans from at least November 2019 and "the virus came into that marketplace before it came out of that marketplace". His analysis of the Chinese report was published in a paper titled "Coronavirus — Unknown Source, Unrecognized Spread, and Pandemic Potential" in ''Think Global'' in January 2020.


Awards

In 1982, while at Dartmouth Medical School, he gained membership to the AOA Medical Honor Society. In 1988, he received the young investigator award from the
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.Membership Directory: Awards
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, p 131.
For his work in preparing the city of Washington for the anthrax attacks, Lucey received the
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in 2001. The following year the
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awarded him the Commander's Award for Public Service, for the care he gave to those injured at
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on September 11, 2001. In 2003, he received a Distinguished Service Award from the District of Columbia Hospital Association for Bioterrorism Preparedness. In the same year, the Medical Society of the District of Columbia awarded him their Meritorious Service Award.


Selected publications


"Development and evaluation of a quantitative, touch-down, real-time PCR assay for diagnosing ''Pneumocystis carinii'' pneumonia"
''
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''.
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. Vol. 40, Number 2 (February 2002), pp. 490–494. . Hans Henrik Larsen et al.
"The emerging zika pandemic: enhancing preparedness"
'' Journal of the American Medical Association''. Vol. 315, No. 9 (March 1, 2016), pp. 865–866. . Co-authored with Lawrence O. Gostin.
"One health education for future physicians in the pan-epidemic “Age of Humans”"
''
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''. Vol. 64 (November 2017), pp. 1–3. . Co-authored with Sabrina Sholts, Halsie Donaldson, Joseph White, and Stephen R. Mitchell.
"Enhancing preparation for large nipah outbreaks beyond Bangladesh: Preventing a tragedy like Ebola in West Africa"
''
International Journal of Infectious Diseases The International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), established in 1986, is a nonprofit organization that monitors infectious diseases on a global scale. It also offers grants and fellowships, publishes a journal, and runs online learning pl ...
''. Vol. 72 (July 2018), pp. 69–72. . Co-authored with Halsie Donaldson.
"Boosting Global Yellow Fever Vaccine Supply for Epidemic Preparedness: 3 Actions for China and the USA"
''Virologica Sinica''. Vol. 34, Issue 3 (June 2019), pp. 235–239. . Co-authored with K. R. Kent.
"Coronavirus—unknown source, unrecognized spread, and pandemic potential"
''Think Global Health''. (February 6, 2020). Co-authored with K. R. Kent.


References


External links


S&ED Preview & Korea's MERS Response
Lucey's response to MERS (interview)
Daniel Lucey - Lessons from Traveling to Zika, Ebola, MERS, FLU, and SARS Pandemics
YouTube video 2015
This Earth Day, the Planet’s Health is Your Health
Smithsonian Institution (2017)
Defending Against Aerosol Anthrax Attacks on US Cities

“Much more must be done to implement post-Ebola reforms”
''The British Medical Journal Opinion''. January 23, 2017
Anthrax: Diagnosis, Clinical Staging, and Risk Communication
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