Links on Infectious Diseases

United States Government Actions

• Increased Funds for US Electronic Disease Surveillance Network (Jan 2000)
• Presidential Directive, 12 June 1996
• Proposed FY 1998 Budget: President asks $280 Million for Emerging Infectious Disease Research;

  $103 Million for CDC Cooperative State Surveillance Programs

  (For details, Search Budget, using "emerging disease")

• CISET Report, September 1995

ProMED Disease Surveillance for Plants and Animals

• AgNIC Plant Disease Reports
• Animal & Disease Reports Search by Country, Animal, Disease, or Month/Year

International Disease Surveillance

• Health Information Network for Advanced Planning WHO
• Japanese National Institute of Infectious Diseases
• Canadian Health Network
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(USA)
• Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (UK)
• Centro de Cooperación Internacional en Salud y Desarrollo (CCISD-Mexico)
• Food & Agriculture Organization (Agricultural Pests and Diseases)
• International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN)
• Medicina Preventiva e Saude Publica (Spain)
• PanAmerican Health Organization (WHO - Central and South America)
• World Health Organization
• European Plant Protection Organization (EPPO)
• Los Alamos Influenza Sequence Data Base

Infectious Disease Bulletins

• UK Public Health Service (England & Wales)
• Dutch National Bulletin (Netherlands, in Dutch, weekly)
• Epidemiologisches Bulletin (Germany, in German, weekly)
• EuroSurveillance (Monthly - English, French, Spanish, Portuguese)
• EuroSurveillance (Europe - Weekly)
• Instituto Superiore di Sanita (Italy, in Italian, quarterly)
• National Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Infectious Disease Surveillance Center of Japan (Japanese & English, monthly)
• Animal Disease Information (OIE - Global Weekly)
• WHO Weekly Epidemiology Report (Weekly)
• Infectious Disease News (commercial)
• Disease Weekly (commercial)
• US State Department Travel Alerts
• International Red Cross (Travel Alerts)
• UK Guide for Avoiding Food Borne Diseases

Journals

• Journal of Infectious Disease University of Chicago monthly
• Emerging Infectious Diseases (US - Quarterly)

Electron Micrography Galleries

• The Big Picture Book of Viruses
• Bacteria - Gram Positive, Gram Negative
• Parasitic Agents
• Fungal Agents

Other Infectious Disease Resources

• Centre for Complex Infectious Diseases
• Diseases Tracked by WHO
• EPIDEMIC! American Museum of Natural History Online Exhibit
• Infectious Diseases Info at Johns Hopkins University
• Viral Information for Medicos Software & Manual
• Waterborne Disease Occurrence" US Environmental Protection Agency
• Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC)
• The Microbiology Network
• Medical Geography Page
• "Bugs in the News"
• Emerging Infections Information Network at Yale University
• Pasteur Institute
• New Drugs for Infectious Disease
• WWW Virtual Library: Epidemiology, University of California at San Francisco
• Zoonotic Diseases and UCSB Animal Care Council at the University of California, Santa Barbara

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