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- Biodefense Threat
Analysis Center: Pathobiologics International - An international reference
point for biosecurity.
- Reportable Diseases Overview: CDC - USDA - OIE: As
per requests for clarification regarding Animal Disease Reporting, 30
July 2004
- FMD Vaccine Production - U.S. PCR Objective: HRI proposes
purchase of approx. 100 million doses of FMD Vaccine, covering the
full range of serotypes, that could be accessible to USDA (or any U.N.
member country) in the event of a large scale outbreak. See also:
OIE International Conference on the Control of Infectious
Animal Diseases by Vaccination: Conclusions and Recommendations, April
13-16, 2004.
- U.S. Agricultural and Food Security, Who Will Provide
the Leadership?: Horn, Breeze, Centaur Science Group, Washington DC,
2003.
- Biodefense: Education resources target medical and veterinary
professionals worldwide: (HRI) - Humanitarian Resource Institute develops
continuing education courses on both foreign animal and zoonotic
diseases.
- EHPNET: Humanitarian Resource Institute Emerging Infectious
Disease Network: Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), an online
publication by the Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences (NIEHS), Volume 112, Number 1, January 2004..
- FAO/WHO/OIE Conference on Veterinary Public Health and
Control of Zoonoses in Developing Countries: Summary of Comments and
Discussions.
Also In The News
Emerging Infectious Disease Sites
Announcements
- Continuing Education Resource Directory Provides Access
to Continuing Medical and Veterinary Education, Online Courses and Lectures.
- Biosecurity Reference Library: Guidelines,
Risk Assessment, and Biosecurity Presentations.
- Legal
Resource Center Biodefense Reference Library: Topics, Legislation, Regulations
and Policy.
- Bioinformatics: Pathobiological Diagnostics: Analytical
tools to enhance diagnosis, containment, control and rapid vaccine development.
- National Library
of Medicine launches website on biological warfare. The website offers
information including incubation period, duration of illness, symptoms,
means of transmission, treatment, and prognosis for a comprehensive list
of biological warfare agents.
Foreign Animal Diseases
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General Information
- Association for Infection Control
Practitioners
- CDC Health Alerts,
Advisories, and Updates: Public Health Emergency Preparedness &
Response.
- Centers for Disease
Control (CDC): Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal
- CDC: Special Issues, Dispatches, Commentary, Letters, Book
Review, News & Notes
- CDC: National Center for
Infectious Diseases
- CDC Travel Health
National Center for Infectious Diseases.
- Global Emerging Infections System
- Global Outbreak
Alert & Response Network: World Health
Organization.
- International
Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) ISTM advocates and facilitates
education, service, and research activities in the field of travel medicine.
This includes: preventive and curative medicine within many specialties
such as tropical medicine, infectious diseases, high altitude physiology,
travel related obstetrics, psychiatry, occupational health, military and
migration medicine, and environmental health.
- GlobalHealth.gov:
Site developed U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to be a portal
of global health information for policymakers, researchers, doctors, and
the general public.
- Ministries
of Health and National surveillance Institutes around the world
- National Library
of Medicine: Biological Warfare. The website offers information
including incubation period, duration of illness, symptoms, means of transmission,
treatment, and prognosis for a comprehensive list of biological warfare
agents.
- Textbook of
Military Medicine: Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare,
Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army.
- U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
- United States Geological Survey
- World Health Organization:
Communicable Disease Surveilance and Response (CSR)
- World Health Organization (WHO):
Weekly Epidemiological Record
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