WH adviser: Infectious disease a major US security threat

A senior adviser to President Obama said Friday that one of the biggest threats the next administration faces on the homeland security front is the emergence of infectious diseases.

“The threat I would highlight here for the next team, quite frankly, is emerging infectious diseases,” Lisa Monaco, Obama’s top adviser on homeland security and counterterrorism, told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast. She said that’s the kind of threat that she would be saying to the next administration, “you need to focus on this.”