Links by Chapter

Introduction. SARS, the Newest Killer

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - SARS
• World Health Organization
  • SARS
  • Cumulative Number of Reported Probable Cases of SARS
• Government of Canada SARS web site
• Institute of Medicine (IOM) report - Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response

1: The Case of Jeannie Brown

• NYC - Department of Health and Mental Hygine
  • Streptococcal Infections (Invasive Group A Strep)
  • West Nile Virus
• CDC
  • Foodborne Illnesses
  • Group A Streptococcal (GAS) Disease
  • Influenza (Flu)
  • Lyme Disease
  • West Nile Virus
  • Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWRs)
• Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA)
• CIA National Intelligence Council Report - The Global Infectious Disease Threat and Its Implications for the United States
• Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

2. The Bioterrroism Challenge: Meeting the Threat

• U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)
• John Hopkins School of Public Health
  • Biological Agents
  • Botulism
  • Smallpox
  • Tularemia
  • Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies
    • Dark Winter - "a FICTIONAL scenario depicting a covert smallpox attack"
    • Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
    • Tularemia
    • Smallpox
• CDC
  • Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response
  • Smallpox
  • Smallpox Response Plan and Guidelines
  • Monkeypox
• NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
• American Public Health Association
• Acambis - producer of vaccines
• Cepheid - devices to detect infectious disease agents

3. Our Ailing Pathogen Alert System: Germs from Abroad

• National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL)
• CDC -
  • Cholera
  • Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)
  • Malaria
  • West Nile Virus
  • MMWR Dec 2002 - Intrauterine West Nile Virus Infection -- New York
• NYC - Bureau of Communicable Disease

4. Mad Cow and Chronic Wasting Disease: The Strange Horrors of Prions

• CDC - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
• WHO - BSE
• The UK Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit
• National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center

5. E. Coli Gone Bad: Runaway Bacterial Evolution

• USDA
• Food Safety and Inspection Service
• CDC - Foodborne Illnesses
• CSPI - Food Safety
• STOP - Safe Tables Our Priority

6. Bacterial Resistance: The Dangers of Antibiotics and Hospitals

• Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics
• CDC - Vancomycin-Intermediate/Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
• CSPI - Antibiotic Resistance Project
• Viral Prescription Pad [PDF] (also in )

7. The Next Flu Pandemic: Rapidly Mutating Viruses

• CDC - Influenza (Flu)

8. TB Again: The Fight-Then-Forget Cycle

• The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria
• WHO - TB Fact Sheet #104

9. Ticking Time Bombs: Chronic Diseases Combining Forces

• CDC -
  • Hepatitis A
  • Hepatitis B
  • Hepatitis C
  • Hepatitis D
  • Hepatitis E
  • Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV)
  • HIV/AIDS

10. What We Must Do

• CIA National Intelligence Council Report - The Global Infectious Disease Threat and Its Implications for the United States