Perspective

• The Economic Impact of a Bioterrorist Attack: Are Prevention and Postattack Intervention Programs Justifiable? A.F. Kaufmann, M.I. Meltzer, G.P. Schmid

Synopses

• Hantaviruses: A Global Disease Problem, C. Schmaljohn and B. Hjelle
• Japanese Spotted Fever: Report of 31 Cases and Review of the Literature,* F. Mahara
  This article is also available in Japanese
• Polycystic Kidney Disease: An Unrecognized Emerging Infectious Disease? M.A. Miller-Hjelle, J.T. Hjelle, M. Jones, W.R. Mayberry, M.A. Dombrink-Kurtzman, S.W. Peterson, D.M. Nowak, and F.S. Darras
• Borna Disease, C.G.Hatalski,A.J.Lewis,and W.I. Lipkin
• The Rickettsia: an Emerging Group of Pathogens in Fish, J.L. Fryer and M.J. Mauel
• Rhodococcus equi and Arcanobacterium haemolyticum: Two "Coryneform"Bacteria Increasingly Recognized as Agents of Human Infection, R. Linder
• Is Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Transmitted in Blood? M.N. Ricketts, N.R. Cashman, E.E. Stratton, S. ElSaadany

Dispatches

• A New Tick-borne Encephalitis-like Virus Infecting New England Deer Ticks, Ixodes dammini, S.R. Telford III, P.M. Armstrong, P. Katavolos, I. Foppa, A.S.O. Garcia, M.L. Wilson, A. Spielman
• An Unusual Hantavirus Outbreak in Southern Argentina: Person-to-Person Transmission? R.M. Wells, S.S. Estani, Z.E. Yadon, D. Enria, P. Padula, N. Pini, J.N. Mills, C.J. Peters, E.L. Segura, and the Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Study Group for Patagonia
• Pertussis in the Netherlands: an Outbreak Despite High Levels of Immunization with Whole-Cell Vaccine, H.E. de Melker, M.A.E. Conyn-van Spaendonck, H.C. Rümke, J.K. van Wijngaarden, F.R. Mooi, and J.F.P. Schellekens
• Invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b Disease in Elderly Nursing Home Residents: Two Related Cases, T.C. Heath, M.C. Hewitt, B. Jalaludin, C. Roberts, A.G. Capon, P. Jelfs, and G.L. Gilbert
• Seroepidemiologic Studies of Hantavirus Infection Among Wild Rodents in California, M. Jay, M.S. Ascher, B.B. Chomel, M. Madon, D. Sesline, B.A. Enge, B. Hjelle, T.G. Ksiazek, P. E. Rollin, P.H. Kass, and K. Reilly
• Gestational Psittacosis in a Montana Sheep Rancher, D.M. Jorgensen
• Lack of Serologic Evidence for an Association between Cache Valley Virus Infection and Anencephaly and Other Neural Tube Defects in Texas, J.F. Edwards and K. Hendricks
• Rabies Postexposure Prophylaxis Survey Kentucky, M. Auslander and C. Kaelin

Commentary

• Biologic Terrorism Responding to the Threat, P.K. Russell

From the 1st International Conference on Emerging Zoonoses
The articles in this section were originally presented at the 1st International Conference on Emerging Zoonoses, Jerusalem, Israel, November 24-28, 1996. The conference was cosponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Israel Center for Disease Control.

• The Hantaviruses of Europe: from the Bedside to the Bench, J. Clement, P. Heyman, P. McKenna, P. Colson, and T. Avsic-Zupanc
• Brucellosis: an Overview, M.J. Corbel
• Global Aspects of Emerging and Potential Zoonoses: a WHO Perspective, F.-X. Meslin
• Epidemiology of Emerging Zoonoses in Israel, A. Shimshony
• Electronic Media and Emerging Zoonoses, S.A. Berger

Letters

• The Reemergence of Aedes aegypti in Arizona, D.M. Engelthaler, T.M. Fink, C.E. Levy and M.J. Leslie
• Treatment of Exudative Pharyngitis, P.D. Ellner
• Reply to P.D. Ellner, H.S. Izurieta, P.M. Strebel, T. Youngblood, D.G. Hollis, and T. Popovic

News and Notes

• Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Pathogenic Microorganisms
• Simian Virus 40 (SV40)
• Foodborne Pathogens: Implications and Control
• Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Pacific Rim
• Emerging Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
• Hantavirus Conference
• International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory Fellowship Program
• Emerging Infections: Clinical and Pathologic Update II
• Rabies Conference
• Erratum

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