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| Infectious
Disease Information |
| Emerging
Infectious Diseases
Infectious
diseases are a continuing danger everyone. Some diseases have been
effectively controlled with the help of modern technology. Yet new
diseases—such as SARS and West Nile virus infection—are
constantly appearing. Others, such as malaria, tuberculosis, and
bacterial pneumonias, are now appearing in forms that are resistant
to drug treatments.
NCID
offers a great deal of emerging infectious disease information:
scan the list below.
Topics
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Protecting
the Nation’s Health in an Era of Globalization: CDC’s Global Infectious
Disease Strategy
Plan describes how CDC and its international partners can collaborate
to prevent the emergence and spread of infectious diseases.
International
Emerging Infections Program
Series of centers of excellence that integrate disease surveillance, applied
research, prevention, and control activities.
ICEID:
International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases
2004 conference
information; archived 2002 information and presentations
Preventing Emerging
Infectious Diseases: A Strategy for the 21st Century: Overview of the
Updated CDC Plan
 Adobe
Acrobat Reader version (214 KB) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Report (MMWR). September 11, 1998;47:1-14.
Antimicrobial Resistance
Site. Discusses how misuse of antimicrobial drugs is resulting in the
reappearance of many forms of infectious diseases that were formerly well
controlled. General and technical information, educational materials,
links.
Get
Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work
National campaign to reduce antimicrobial resistance through promotion
of more appropriate antibiotic use.
Emerging
Infectious Diseases (EID)
A
bimonthly journal published by NCID. Multiple
issues also available in Adobe Acrobat Reader version
APEC
Emerging Infections Network
Data, courses, forum, other resources. Specialized to Pacific Rim. Collaborative
effort of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community
Medicine and CDC and located on APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation)
Web site.
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NOTE:
CDC is not a hospital or clinical facility; we do not see patients and
are unable to diagnose your illness, provide treatment, prescribe medication,
or refer you to specialists.
If
you have a medical emergency, contacting CDC is not the proper way to
get immediate help. Instead, please contact your health care provider
or go to the nearest emergency room. If you are a health care provider,
please contact your state epidemiologist or local health department.
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