Communicable Disease

Non-CDC Links

• The SARS Commission Report, Volumes 1-5, The Honourable Mr. Justice Archie Campbell, December 2006. This report chronicles the investigation of how SARS came to Ontario, how the virus spread, and how it was dealt with.
  http://www.sarscommission.ca/report/index.html
  (Posted: 04/17/2007)
  
  
• The Normative Framework for the Reporting and Management of Infectious Diseases: International Compendium, version July 2005, was prepared for the Public Health Agency of Canada. This document lists infectious diseases legislation from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the World Health Organization in four tables.
  http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/php-psp/pdf/international_compendium.pdf
  (Posted: 04/17/2007)
  
  
• New Hampshire.  Order for Medical Treatment.  Prepared by the New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General in 2003 as part of the state's emergency preparedness activities.  It can be used by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services to compel individuals suspected of having a contagious disease to undergo medical treatment to render them non-contagious.
  (PDF file).  (Word file).
  (Posted: 12/09/2003 3:00 PM)
  
  
• New Hampshire.  Order for Medical Examination and Specimen Collection.  Prepared by the New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General in 2003 as part of the state's emergency preparedness activities.  It can be used by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services to order an individual suspected of being infected with a contagious disease to undergo a medical examination, including production of such specimens as determined necessary by medical personnel to determine the presence of a communicable disease.
    (PDF file).  (Word file).
  (Posted: 12/09/2003 3:00 PM)