Mic 361
Human Infectious Diseases

Dr. Leanne Field

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Web Sites | Online Publications

 

Web sites:

bulletAll the Virology on the WWW
bulletASM

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.

bulletCDC - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Home Page
bulletThe National Center for Infectious Diseases Home Page
bulletEmerging Infectious Diseases - A peer reviewed journal published by The National Center for Infectious Diseases
bulletMMWR - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, electronic edition.

 

bulletDisease Prevention News

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.

 

bulletEmerging 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.

 

bulletMedscape 

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.

bullet New York Times, The

 daily newspaper

bulletOutBreak

Outbreak is an on-line information service addressing emerging diseases.

bulletProMED

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.

bulletWHO

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.

bulletWeekly Epidemiological Record (WER)

Electronic version of the Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) published by the World Health Organization (WHO).

 

Online Publications:

Addressing Emerging Infectious Disease Threats - A Prevention Strategy for the United States (1994)

Preventing Emerging Infectious Diseases - A Strategy for the 21st Century (1998)

The NIAID Research Agenda for Emerging Infectious Diseases

Global Microbial Threats in the 1990s: Report of the NSTC Committee on International Science and Technology (CISET) Working Group on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases

 

 

 

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