General Sources of Information

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
CDC Information about Influenza Season in the Wake of Chiron (05 October 2004)
CDC Update: Investigation of Bioterrorism-Related Anthrax
and Interim Guidelines for Clinical Evaluation
of Persons with Possible Anthrax (MMWR, 02 November 2001).
Recognition of Illness Associated with the Intentional Release of a Biologic Agent
(CDC guidance for health-care providers and public health personnel;
MMWR, 19 October 2001).
CDC Bioterrorism homepage

World Health Organization (WHO)

Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy

First National Symposium on Medical and Public Health Response to Bioterrorism (1999) (Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1999).

USAMRIID: Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

U.S. Department of Defense Counterproliferation and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs.

USAMRICD: Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense.

International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID).

ProMED-mail.

CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service

IDLinx.com: Daily infectious disease news and links.

Institute for OneWorld Health.

ANSER Institute for Homeland Security.

Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project (Stimson Center)

Antibiotics Guide from Johns Hopkins.

The WHO's Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (CSR), including news releases from Disease Outbreak News [Note: Formerly, the WHO's "Emerging and Other Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control (EMC)"].

United States Postal Service "suspicious parcel" press release (October 2001).

SatelLife

Epidemic! -- On the Trail of Killer Diseases. This is a multi-media website directed toward the general public, produced by the Discovery Channel and the American Museum of Natural History.

National Cent er for Infectious Diseases, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases

Pan American Health Organization

National Foundation for Infectious Diseases

HIP: Hospital Infections Program

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

CDC, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases

Karolinska Institutet: Bacterial Infections and Mycoses

Johns Hopkins Infectious Diseases

University of Wisconsin Institute for Molecular Virology

All the Virology on the WWW

Food safety and the Food & Drug Administration's "Bad Bug Book" of foodborne pathogens.

Childhood infections: General descriptions for parents, from the Nemours Foundation.

Medicins Sans Frontieres and Doctors Without Borders USA

Awarded the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize

Medical NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) Information Server

Detection an d characterization of biological pathogens, from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

"The Yellow Book" (Health Information for International Travel, 2001?2002; .pdf file)

Journals and Newsletters (Full content)

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Weekly Epidemiological Record

MMWR

Eurosurveillance Weekly/Monthly

The Double Helix

Medscape Infectious Diseases (free registration required to access content pages)

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Individual Papers/Books

The Jordan Report 20th Anniversary:
Accelerated Development of Vaccines (2002).

Anthrax as a Biological Weapon: Medical and Public Health Management (JAMA, a 1999 report highlighted on the JAMA homepage, October 2001).

Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare: A textbook offered online by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense.

The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Treatment: Section 13 - "Infectious Disorders".

The World Health Report -- 1999, from the WHO.

MMWR Summary of Notifiable Diseases, United States, 1997.

The State of the World's Children 1998, from UNICEF.

From the CDC:
[1] Addressing Emerging Infectious Disease Threats: A Prevention Strategy for the United States.
[2] Preventing Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Strategy for the 21st Century.

Emerging and Re-emerging Viruses: An Essay by Alison Jacobson, University of Cape Town, Department of Microbiology.

Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogenicity, from the University of Wisconsin's Department of Bacteriology.

Global Surveillance of Communicable Diseases by David L. Heymann and Guenael R. Rodier.

Infectious Diseases of the Central Nervous System by Gary Baumbach, M.D.

Health Problems of Refugees by Lani Kay Ackerman, M.D. (Medscape, which requires free registration to access content pages).

Accelerated Development of Vaccines (The Jordan Report for 1998).

Cities and Emerging or Re-emerging Diseases in the XXIst Century, a WHO essay.

Guidelines for Infection Control in Health Care Personnel, 1998.

Guideline for Handwashing, 1985
and
Operation Clean Hands [NOTE: Not available online at this time].

Introduction to the Bacteria.

World Health Report 1998: Life in the 21st Century, a WHO document.

Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook (4th edition, 2001)
by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

1998 Guidelines for the Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Disease, from the CDC.

Specific Diseases

AIDS/HIV
CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse
immunet: aids.org
HIV/AIDS Surveillance
CDC Revised Recommendations for HIV Screening of Pregnant Women (November 2001).
Johns Hopkins AIDS Service
Clinical Care Options for HIV
Critical Path AIDS Project
Aegis
Improving HIV Therapy
by John G. Bartlett and Richard D. Moore (July 1998).
Cerebral Infections in AIDS: Coccidioidomycosis, Histoplasmosis, and Other Fungal Infections
by Michael J.G. Harrison, DM and Justin C. McArthur, MPH (1998).
neuroAIDS
The 6th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
(February 1999).
"Surviving AIDS" (PBS, February 1999).
HIVline: The Clinician's Educational Resource

Amoebic Meningoencephalitis
Meningoencephalitis (Primary Amoebic)

Anthrax
Anthrax special issue (Emerging Infectious Diseases, October 2002).
Anthrax (Chapter 22 of Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare; .pdf file).
CDC Update: Investigation of Bioterrorism-Related Anthrax and Interim Guidelines for Exposure Management and Antimicrobial Therapy.
Anthrax: CDC Disease Information Sheet.
Anthrax: CDC Documentation and Updates.
CDC Basic Lab Protocols for the Presumptive Identification of Bacillus anthracis (.pdf file).
Guidelines for the Surveillance and Control of Anthrax in Humans and Animals from the WHO.
Anthrax Vaccination Program.
World Anthrax Data Site.
Children and Anthrax: A Fact Sheet for Clinicians
Bioport [Corporate].
Cipro for Inhalation Anthrax (from the FDA).
Cipro (from Bayer)

Antibiotic-resistant Infectious Diseases
Antimicrobial Resistance
The Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance
by Stuart Levy (March 1998).
Consultation on the Emergence of Drug Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
Vancomycin Intermediate-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VISA)
Recommendations for Preventing the Spread of Vancomycin Resistance
Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci: Approach to Treatment and Control
by Reina M. Flores and colleagues (January/February 1996).
Cubist Pharmaceuticals [Corporate].

Arboviral Encephalitis (includes West Nile Virus)
CDC West Nile Current Case Count
"What's Going on with the West Nile Virus"
from Cornell University's Environmental Risk Assessment Program
Spotlight on Arboviral Encephalitides
Viruses Transmitted by Mosquitoes: Eastern Equine Encephalitis by Jerome Goddard, Ph.D. (1996).
Spotlight on Japanese Encephalitis
" CDC answers your questions about West Nile encephalitis"
W est Nile virus

Aspergillosis
Aspergillus Web Site

Avian Influenza
Avian Influenza from the WHO

Babesiosis (Babesia microti)
Babesiosis

Bacterial Meningitis
Bacterial Meningitis from the CDC
"Killer Disease on Campus "
(PBS's NOVA episode, 03 September 2002).
Group B Streptococcal Disease
Chloramphenicol Resistance in Meningococci
(Editorial, New England Journal of Medicine, September 1998)
Meningococcal Meningitis---Update

Botulism (Clostridium botulinum)
Botulism (Clostridium botulinum)

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
The UK Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surv eillance Unit
The BSC Inquiry
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

Chagas Disease
Chagas Disease Elimination

Cholera
Cholera and Epidemic Dysentery
Cholera in 1997 (from Weekly Epidemiological Record, 03 July 1998).

Chronic Wasting Disease
Chronic Wasting Disease factsheet.
Chronic Wasting Disease and Wisconsin Deer.
Chronic Wasting Disease.

Cryptosporidium
Cryptosporidiosis
Cryptosporidiosis
Cryptosporidium Enteritis

Dengue Fever
CDC Dengue Fever Homepage

Dracunculiasis
Dracunculiasis Eradication
The Carter Center: Eradicating Guinea Worm Disease

Ebola
Marburg and Ebola Viruses

Escherichia Coli
Escherichia Coli 0157:H7

Hantavirus
Hantaviruses, with Emphasis o n Four Corners Hantavirus by Brian Hjelle, M.D.

Heliobacter pylori
Heliobacter pylori: Facts for Health Care Providers from the CDC
The Search for Vaccines Against Heliobacter pylori
by Thomas P. Monath, M.D., et al. (August 1998; Medscape).

Hepatitis
NCID Hepatitis Branch
The Hepatitis Place
Hepatitis
Hepatitis C: The Silent Epidemic
by Vicki Sandvik (October 1998).
Hepatitis C Fact Sheet

Histoplasmosis (Histoplasma capsulatum)
Histoplasmosis

Influenza
CDC Influenza Prevention and Control
Flu Facts for Everyone:
General information from the CDC National Immunization Program
FDA Influenza Vaccine Information
Flu
flunet (deadlink as of 14 October 2004)
Influenza 1918
(PBS American Experience, 1998)

Lassa Fever
Lassa Fever

Legionellosis
Legionellosis: Legionnaires' Disease and Pontiac Fever

Leishmaniasis
Leishmaniasis Co ntrol
Current Approaches to Leishmaniasis
by Maria Lee, M.D. and Holly Gilbert, M.D. (January 1999).

Leptospirosis
Leptospirosis

Lyme Disease (Borrelia b urgdorferi)
Spotlight on Lyme Disease

Malaria
"Roll Back Malaria"
"Pocket Guide to Malaria Prevention and Control"
from the Navy Medical Department.
Proteases of Malaria Parasites: New Targets for Chemotherapy by Philip J. Rosenthal (January/March 1998).
Genetic Code of Chromosome of
Malaria Parasite Deciphered
(NIH News Release, November 1998).

Meningococcal Meningitis
[see Bacterial Meningitis]

Nipah Virus
Nipah Virus

Pertussis (Bordetella pertussis)
Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
Pertussis Infection in Adults by Seth W. Wright, M.D. (August 1998).

Plague
Plague

Rabies
Rabies (WHO)
Rabies (CDC)
RABNET

Rickettsial Diseases
Rickettsial Diseases

Rotavirus
Rotavirus Online

Rubella, Congenital
Congenital Rubella

Schistosomiasis
Schistosomiasis Control

Smallpox
CDC "FAQs About Smallpox"
WHO Fact Sheet on Smallpox.
Smallpox: An Online Exhibit.
Smallpox: The Triumph over the Most Terrible of the Ministers of Death, by Nicolau Barquet, M.D., and Pere Domingo, M.D. (1997, Annals of Internal Medicine, 127, 635-642.)
Lessons Learned from the Eradication of Smallpox
Smallpox as a Biological Weapon: Medical and Public Health Management (JAMA, 1999).

Streptococcus, Group A (GAS)
Group A Streptococcus

Toxins, Aquatic

About Pfiesteria Piscicida
Pfiesteria Piscicida Page
Human Illness Associated with Harmful Algae

Tuberculosis
Core Curriculum on Tuberculosis: What the Clinician Should Know: 4th edition (2000)
CDC Division of Tuberculosis Elimination.
Tuberculosis and Air Travel: Guidelines for Prevention and Control.
The Tuberculosis Reference Guide
Antituberculosis Drug Resistance Worldwide
(from Weekly Epidemiological Record, 14 August 1998).
Stanford Center for Tuberculosis Research
Tuberculosis Elimination Revisited (1999)
Tuberculosis Meningitis in Pediatric Patients by Donald L. Janner, M.D. (1995).
The People's Plague: Tuberculosis in America,
the transcript from a PBS documentary film. [NOTE: No longer available online.]

Vibrio vulnificus
Vibrio vulnificus

Yellow Fever
Yellow Fever in Africa