| ASM The American Society for Microbiology
(ASM) is the oldest and largest single life science membership organization in the world.
ASM represents 24 disciplines of microbiological specialization plus a division for
microbiology educators.
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| CDC - The Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention Home Page
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The Texas Department of Health has published Disease Prevention News (DPN) for
over fifty years. Distributed twice a month, the DPN newsletter provides health care
professionals throughout the state of Texas with a wide variety of timely public health
information, including Texas morbidity and mortality data.
| Emerging Infections Information
Network (EllNet) This is an Internet Forum established by the Department of
Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University School of Medicine
This forum serves as a means of addressing various issues discussed in the EIINet
seminars. Each week new comments, ideas and questions relevant to the topic of the week
are posted on this forum.
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| Medscape Medscape is an
interactive multi-specialty site that pools information from clinical journals, medical
news providers, medical education programs, and material created expressly for Medscape.
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New York Times, The |
daily newspaper
Outbreak is an on-line information service addressing emerging diseases.
The Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) was proposed by the Federation of American Scientists specifically to create a
global system of early detection and timely response to disease outbreaks.
| WHO The World Health Organization (WHO) is a
specialized agency of the United Nations with 191 Member States, WHO promotes technical
cooperation for health among nations, carries out programs to control and eradicate
disease and strives to improve the quality of human life.
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| Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER)
Electronic version of the Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) published by the
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