Looking at this page at the end of March 2005 I realise it's very out of date. Sorry about that! Much of it is still useful, but please don't tell me about dead links - I'm sure there are lots of them.
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These have been banned by the HPA - no independent websites by HPA employees about their work; everything must go on the official HPA website.
 | The Health Protection Agency's Home Page - the UK's site. See also the UK's Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research (CAMR): http://www.coppettswood.demon.co.uk/camrhome.htm. |
| Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health (SCIEH) |
| European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) |
| WHO disease outbreak site. |
| National Disease Surveillance Centre of Ireland. EPI-INSIGHT is a monthly report on infectious disease in Ireland. "The purpose is to improve the health of the Irish population by providing the best information on infectious disease. It aims to publish timely data for use locally, regionally and nationally. The publication is targeted at those with an interest in the diagnosis, surveillance, control and prevention of infectious disease, everywhere. It will also be available to download from the NDSC website." |
| Institut De Veille Sanitaire (IDVS) - the French site, and a splendid example of a site that gets useful and up-to-date information swiftly and efficiently onto the world-wide web. This site is multi-lingual. It includes general health data, as well as communicble disease data. The Institut De Veille Sanitaire has succeeded the Réseau National de Santé Publique (RNSP). |
| Robert Koch-Institut, Germany's central communicable disease surveillance centre. Theit Epidemiologisches Bulletin (weekly, only in German) is available at http://www.rki.de/INFEKT/EPIBULL/EPI.HTM. |
| The most comprehensive epidemiological information in Italy is managed by the Istituto Superiore di Sanita. It publishes the Bollettino Epidemiologico Nazionale (BEN), Italy's national public health bulletin. BEN is designed to disseminate, clearly and promptly, the results of national surveillance systems coordinated by the ISS and epidemiological studies done by local and regional health units throughout the country. It will cover both infectious and non-infectious disease topics of local and national interest. |
| Netherlands. The (monthly) Dutch National Bulletin on Communicable Diseases is available (in Dutch with English abstracts) on: http://www.isis.rivm.nl/inf_bul/home_bul.html. |
| Spain's bulletins are available at http://cne.isciii.es/bes/bes.htm. |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Home site , and its National Centre for Infectious Diseases page - The US' site. It has a page on emergency planning for emerging diseases. You can download EpiInfo from the CDC here. |
| Health Canada, and also CHICA (Community and Hospital Infection Control Association) - Canada, which is a "national, multi- disciplinary, voluntary association of professionals. CHICA - Canada is committed to improving the health of Canadians by promoting excellence in the practice of infection prevention and control by employing evidence based practice and application of epidemiological principles. This is accomplished through education, communication, standards, research and consumer awareness. Please feel free to communicate. Check our links, publications, committees and upcoming events. http://www.chica.org/". [Includes useful guidance - VRE in nursing homes and residential settings; infection control...] |
| National Centre for Disease Control/Communicable Diseases Network Australia New Zealand/Australian Department of Health and Family Services |
| Senegal's Bulletin Epidemiologique is issued by Service national des grandes endemies. Contact: epidemio@telecomplus.sn. |
| The WHO website has a links page that is worth visiting: http://www-nt.who.int/whosis/statistics/national_sites/national_sites.cfm. It has sites for dozens of countries -- but most of them are not epidemiological bulletins. |
| For links to other sites, including USA state health departments, CDC has a links page: http://www.cdc.gov/other.htm. Another is http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/international/, with an index of many national bulletins, including those in ex-Soviet countries. Unfortunately, this has mostly not been updated since 1997 or early 1998. |
| The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists has a great website. This site is US based, but the criteria for membership are not US only, and UK public health/communicable disease contol workers could also join. |
| Japan's Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Disease, Japan. In Japanese & English. Includes monthly IASR - Infectious Agents Surveillance Reports, plus Isolation & Detection Reports of Viruses and Bacteria, by Month, with wonderful graphs of weekly & monthly trends over the last 10 years for 21 infectious diseases. |
| For immunisation about different countries vaccination schedules (and apparently the UK information is not - or was not, when I wrote this - quite correct - don't know about elsewhere) see the WHO site http://www.who.int/gpv-surv/intro.html. Or go to Travel information on this web site |
| "The CSTE has a website - address: www.cste.org. This might serve as a model for a UK communicable disease site. |
| Association of Medical Microbiologists (UK). |
WHO web sites relevant to infectious disease surveillance and control:
| Antimicrobial resistance information bank |
| Buruli ulcer |
| Eradication/elimination programmes |
| Filariasis |
| Geographical information systems |
| Health topics |
| Infectious diseases |
| Influenza network (FluNet) |
| Integrated management of childhood illnesses |
| International travel and health |
| Intestinal parasites |
| Leprosy |
| Malaria |
| Newsletter (Action against infection) |
| Outbreaks |
| Poliomyelitis |
| Rabies network (RABNET) |
| Report on infectious diseases |
| Salmonella surveillance network |
| Surveillance and response |
| Tropical disease research |
| Tuberculosis: http://www.who.int/gtb/ and http://www.stoptb.org/ |
| Vaccines |
| Weekly Epidemiological Record |
| WHO pesticide evaluation scheme (WHOPES) |
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| WHO Antimicrobial resistance information bank |
| Tison and Tice's page have a lot on this. They are collecting antibiograms: contact them on Alan Tice (alantice@idlinks.com), David Tison (DTison@multicare.com). Paul Axelsen of the University of Pennsylvania was asked to review this antibiogram exchange, and his comments follow: "The difficulties of comparing antibiotic susceptibility patterns at different institutions are legion, and scientific inquiry into this area requires more information about testing methods, criteria, and the population represented than is generally available. Nevertheless, this site does provide a useful and informal way for people to view so-called "standardized" antibiograms from diverse sources. With sufficient interest, and more contributions, perhaps the publishers of this site will make it possible to query the accumulated information as a database and obtain corresponding information from different laboratories on the same page. |
| European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARSS). "To obtain more comparable and reliable data, the European Commission has funded EARSS. This system, in which all EU Member States participate, is coordinated by the RIVM (National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, the Netherlands). EARSS is an international network of national surveillance systems, which aims to aggregate comparable and reliable antimicrobial resistance data for public health purposes in Europe. Taking into account laboratory methods as well as epidemiological principles, EARSS will act as an early warning system, analyse regional differences, assess risk factors, and provide electronic feedback." |
| The UK's Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre has a fact sheet on antibiotic resistance: http://www.phls.co.uk/advice/WFHantib.htm. |
| CDR Weekly (Vol 10, No 2, 14/1/2000 - available via the PHLS
web site) included the following: . "A template intended to help microbiologists, prescribing advisers, and general practitioners in their discussions with colleagues on the development of antibiotic guidance for their primary care groups has been posted on the PHLS website <http://www.phls.co.uk/advice/Antibiotic%20guidance.pdf>. The template aims to advise on the commonest infections seen in general practice, and is based on several documents on antibiotic prescribing developed by general practitioners in consultation with prescribing advisers and microbiologists. Its design enables the antibiotics and advice to be changed to suit local circumstances – for example, to reflect laboratory resistance data. "The template’s content and format have been agreed by the Department of Health Clinical Prescribing Subgroup of the Interdepartmental Steering Group on Resistance to Antibiotics and other Antimicrobial Agents. The guidance is based on advice on PRODIGY, the computer support system for general practice <http://www.schin.ncl.ac.uk/prodigy/guidance>, the Cochrane Library (ISSN 1464-780X <http://www.update-software.com/cochrane.htm>), articles in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, the Standing Medical Advisory Committee’s report Path of Least Resistance, and other guidance for the United Kingdom available from peer reviewed journals – for example, on sexually transmitted infections <http://www.sextransinf.com>. The template’s content is called ‘guidance’ rather than ‘guidelines’, as systematic reviews of evidence are not available for all topics. The guidance is not comprehensive (impossible in a four page document). Further details may be obtained from the websites and references quoted. |
| "The path of least resistance", the report of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee Sub-Group on Antimicrobial Resistance, which received a lot of well-deserved publicity recently - a synopsis can be viewed, or the full report can be downloaded, from http://www.doh.gov.uk/smac1.htm. |
| David Paul Fidler reported on 1 Mar 2000 that on 28 Feb 2000, the Center of International Development at Harvard University sponsored an International Workshop on Antibiotic Resistance: Global Policies and Options. The Workshop Agenda and jump links to the texts of some of the papers presented can be found by following the link. |
| World Health Organisation (WHO) fact sheet on antimicrobial resistance: http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact194.html (or the WHO page on their response to resistance: http://www.who.int/emc/amr.html). |
| US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fact sheet on antibiotic resistance: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/antibioticresistance/. |
| The Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics' Patient Information (presumably a US pressure group) page seems to provide accurate information, (opinion based on my brief inspection of it): http://www.healthsci.tufts.edu/apua/patient.htm. |
| Hospital infections paper from UK govt. |
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| UK vaccination and immunisation co-ordinators mailing list. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Department of Health's (formerly Health Promotion England's) excellent immunisation web site, including "MMR: the facts". | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Great Ormond Street Hospital website - written by David Elliman and Helen Bedford. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Health Scotland Immunisation Website (formerly Health Education Board for Scotland), where there is an excellent MMR discussion pack, available in several different languages. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| The "Green Book". (More properly: Immunisation against infectious disease.1996 HMSO. This is the "bible" for immunisation policy in the UK. Unfortunately a new edition is well overdue - one has been promised "within the next 6 months" since about 1997! | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Vaccine Update" is now available on line at http://www.pasa.nhs.uk/pharma/ (formerly only available to NHS-web users, now generally available). | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| The PHLS "pink book" on the use of immunoglobulin can be downloaded at www.phls.co.uk/advice/ImmunoglobulinHandbook.pdf. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Statement of fees & allowances for GPs (the "Red Book"). (Note that NHS version, http://www.nhs.uk/redbook, is no longer available, since the introduction of a new contract; but for some issues - including e.g. vaccination - the new contract refers back to the original red book, which is still available at the link given, http://www.redbook.i12.com/Index.htm. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| WHO vaccination site, and information on different countries vaccination uptake, vaccine preventable disease rates, and vaccination schedules is available from http://www.who.int/countries/en/. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Brighton Collaboration is an international voluntary collaboration to facilitate the development, evaluation, and dissemination of high quality information about the safety of human vaccines. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/cur-cont.htm - good site from John Hopkins University | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| For immunisation about different countries vaccination schedules (and apparently the UK information is not - or was not, when I wrote this - quite correct - don't know about elsewhere) see the WHO site http://www.who.int/gpv-surv/intro.html. You could also try http://www.who.int/vaccines-surveillance/alpha.htm. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Vaccines for life" site from Sanofi Pasteur MSD (formerly Aventis Pasteur MSD). | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| The US CDC publishes a lot of useful information on vaccination, including its "Vaccine Information Statements", which are available from : www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/VIS/ or www.immunize.org/vis/. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Information on why and when to receive vaccinations against infectious diseases is being offered on the Web site of the National Network for Immunization Information, a nonprofit group that is sponsored by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Nurses Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. The Web site's portal for parents, located at www.immunizationinfo.org/parents/index.cfm, offers suggestions for vaccinations for adults, as well as downloadable schedules for childhood vaccinations, a guide to evaluating health information found on other Web sites, and a state-by-state list of required shots. The Web site also includes material for health care professionals who work with vaccines and legislative testimony that supports immunizing children." This web site has some excellent resources, including links to http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/pict001.htm, a gallery of pictures of people with vaccine-preventable diseases. The MMR FAQ seemed excellent, too. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Another good web site, for professionals and the public, is the American Academy of Pediatrics site | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| The US "Immunization Action Coalition". | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| http://www.ciap.cpha.ca/resource/Parents/pg1.htm | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| http://www.skeptics.com.au/journal/anti-immune.htm | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| http://www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/immunise/information.htm | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| http://childrensvaccine.org/ (lots of useful documents within) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| http://www.quackwatch.com/index.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| MMR links include:
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| The Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care pamphlets "Immunization: myths and realities; responding to arguments against immunisation" and "Understanding childhood immunizations" can be downloaded in PDF format (or ordered) from the following web-site: http://www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/immunise/publications.htm. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Information - Immunisation (Western Australia) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| European Vaccine Manufacturers produce vaccine information. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| National Immunization Program (US) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Vaccine Page. Includes "Vaccine links for practitioners" (which was referred to at the Eurosurveillance Weekly web site). | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Canadian National Report on Immunization, 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Australian Skeptics Home Page and www.quackwatch.com are both dedicated to debunking myths, including those from the anti-vaccine lobby. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| ANIMAL VIRUS INFORMATION SYSTEM | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries Association's European Vaccine Manufacturers page, which includes information on vaccines. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| The DNA Vaccine Web | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vaccines, vaccination, Thailand, index | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anti-immunisation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sites specifically related to Edward Jenner and Smallpox (there are many of them) include: Jenner/Gillray URLs http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frank_promise.html (which has a copy of Gillray's picture "The Cow-Pock or the wonderful effects of the new inoculation"; http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/nathist/jenner2.html; http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/humss/bioethic/jenner.htm; http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/15oct97/smallpox.htm; http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/15oct97/smallpox.htm; http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/tech/medicine/EdwardJennerAndVaccination/Chap1.html. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| LIST OF ANTI-VACCINE WEBSITES |
(Some antivaccination lobbyists - including many of the spokespersons for antivaccination issues that regularly appear in the UK media - seem to be quite content, knowing that they are not accountable in the way that medical professionals, civil servants and even journalists are, to state as fact things which are far from the truth, but which they would like people to believe, on the principle that they just know that all vaccination is evil, and anything that will put anybody off any vaccination is therefore justifiable. Of course, they like to include as many true facts as possible, to give credence to the misinformation. Visitors to the following websites should therefore be cautious in interpreting what they find there. They should also remember that a great deal of profit has been made by people who provide e.g. "alternatives" to MMR vaccine.)
| www.ctanet.fr/vaccination-information - Ligue nationale pour la liberté des vaccination / French National League for Liberty inVaccination |
| JABS (Justice, Awareness & Basic Support). JABS seem to manage to get a representative onto every news report on vaccination. They are skilled media operators, managing to put across information without often being challenged. They have the liberty, not being professionals who might have to justify what they say, to say what they would like to believe, or what they would like others to believe, based on their gut feeling that all vaccination |
| www.multimania.com/revahb/sommaire.htm - French; created in 1997 |
| www.immunisation.co.uk, which seems to include a variety of information and links, some to reputable websites, others to more questionable ones. It used to redirect you to http://www.van.org.uk/index.htm - which is now the so-called "Vaccine Information Service", which sets out to "inform" people about alleged hazards of vaccination, where they can obtain single-component vaccines, and so forth. It now appears rather out of date, however... |
| http://www.whale.to/vaccines.html - antivaccine site |
| http://thinktwice.com/global.htm – Thinktwice Global Vaccine Institute (describes itself as offering the "world’s largest selection of uncensored information on childhood shots and other immunizations"). Their warning/disclaimer says they are not health practitioners and neither recommend nor discourage vaccines. All website information is taken from other (primary) sources to which the website refers for further details. |
| www.909shot.com - National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) – "founded in 1982, its aim is to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public education; describes itself as a national, non-profit educational organization, & the oldest & largest organization advocating reformation of the mass vaccination system & responsible for launching the vaccine safety movement in America in the early 1980’s". |
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| All the Virology on the WWW. David M. Sander writes: "This comprehensive page lists all the WWW sites that contain information about Virology, Epidemiology and Public Health, General Virology, Specific Viruses, Microbiology, AIDS, Emerging Viruses, Vaccines, Gene Therapy, Biological Warfare, Taxonomy, Virology and Microbiology News, Academic Departments, Virology Institutes, Genomic data, research labs and other Health Related Sites in addition to web sites regarding Science Jobs, Scientific Meetings, Government Agencies, Journals, Scientific Societies, Patent and Legal Resources, Scientific Companies, and much, much more. All the Virology on the WWW also contains On-line Virology Course Notes, a Virology Bookshop, and a catalog of viral images - The Big Picture Book of Viruses. This site is maintained and updated often. Any submissions, additions or corrections that you might have would be very much appreciated, and can be made using the following form: <http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/garryfavwebadd.html>. With your assistance, this Web Site will continue to be the best resource of its kind on the web. For those of you who maintain your own web pages, please send me your address or use our site submission form and I will gladly add it to the list. |
| For more information on the West Nile virus: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/arbor/arboinfo.htm; http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r990924.htm. USGS National Wildlife Health Center: http://www.umesc.usgs.gov/nwhchome.html, http://www.usgs.gov. |
| There is also "An excellent and heavily referenced review of West Nile virus" by Zdenek Hubalek, who had reported a few West Nile virus infections in the Czech Republic earlier this year (1999) in Emerging Infectious Diseases. |
| BBC web site on history of smallpox. |
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| UK Consultants in Communicable Disease Control mailing list. for CsCDC, trainees, infection control nurses, environmental health officers, and anybody sharing the interests of CsCDC. |
| Vaccination and immunisation - UK practitioners' email list. |
| Mailbase' Com-Dis list - see http://www.mailbase.ac.uk for more information. |
| List for UK CsCDC |
| UK's Infection Control Nurses Association web site ought to be mentioned here somewhere. |
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| ProMED |
| Daily Virology News. "Retroscreen Virology and All the Virology on the WWW are
launching a new FREE OF CHARGE service for those interested in virology. We have arranged
for a virology-related email newsfeed from over 300 international news sources including
the New York Times and BBC online..." Register at the Retroscreen Website or at All the Virology on the WWW to receive these email updates. |
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See also the virology and specific disease sections.
Canada's Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Office of Biosafety Material Safety Data Sheets - these look to be an excellent resource: detailed information on a wide range of pathogens, in alphabetical order.
CHICA - Canada (Community and Hospital Infection Control Association) "is a national, multi- disciplinary, voluntary association of professionals. CHICA - Canada is committed to improving the health of Canadians by promoting excellence in the practice of infection prevention and control by employing evidence based practice and application of epidemiological principles. This is accomplished through education, communication, standards, research and consumer awareness. Please feel free to communicate. Check our links, publications, committees and upcoming events." [Includes useful guidance - VRE in nursing homes and residential settings; infection control...]
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| http://www.wiredforhealth.gov.uk/ includes the schools poster re exclusion of children with communicable diseases. Supposedly also includes a paper/literature review about the evidence-base (such as it is) for this. |
| Surrey policies for schools. |
| www.microbe.org - microbiology for children with Sam Sleuth detecting the microbes... Includes stuff on handwashing. |
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| West Surrey Health Promotion Service' Sexual health site for young people (or here). |
| Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases: "Promoting Sexual Health and High-quality HIV/STD Care through Professional and Public Education" |
| http://OnHealth.com/ch1/index.asp - good site for lay people (but American) |
| http://pslgroup.com/DOCGUIDE.HTM
(for doctors. Evidence of strong drug company input. "... but its greatest strength
is its list of links to newsgroups, support groups related to STDs, and a host of other
related sites.") |
| http://plannedparenthood.org/MAIN.HTM - US site re contraception, sexual health, etc. Good content (but American). |
| http://www.grin.net/~sycamore/std/index.html - from Boston - excellent stuff, aimed at young people, but good for others too. |
| http://www.sexhealth.org/infocenter/ |
| Society of Health Advisers in Sexually Transmitted Diseases |
| Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases "Promoting Sexual Health and High-quality HIV/STD Care through Professional and Public Education" |
| Sexually transmitted infections journal: |
| Communicable disease and public health (journal) |
| UK leaflet on HIV testing in pregnancy. |
| AIDS Education Global Information System - self-proclaimed largest website on AIDS & HIV, updated hourly. |
| The body - comprehensive HIV resource, with free "ask the expert" service |
| HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service (ATIS) www.hivatis.org - current US treatment guidelines |
| Paedatric European Network for Treatment of AIDS (PENTA) www.ctu.mrc.ac.uk/penta |
| Medscape HIV/AIDS page |
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| OUTBREAK, which started life as the Ebola Page, has a mission to bring information on agents of serious disease, such as Ebola virus, to the general public. It tries to make this information both scientifically accurate and easily understandable. Given the developing situation in the Middle East, we feel now may be a good time to add some information on a number of other agents to the site. These are agents which have been used, or may be used, in chemical and biological warfare, or in terrorist attacks. You will remember the episode in 1995 when a Japanese cult released sarin gas in the Tokyo subway. On the new pages you will find information on sarin, VX gas, anthrax, botulinum toxin and other chemical and biological agents you may have been hearing about. They give short summary details on the agent, symptoms, prevention and treatment. We hope you will find these useful as background to what you may be hearing on the international news. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A GIS Front End to ProMED! David C. Roberts (droberts@mitretek.org) writes: "In response to an increased concern about infectious diseases and the effects of human activities on human health, Mitretek Systems has created a web application that allows the user to view biological events reported through the ProMED newsfeed through a geographic information systems (GIS) interface. Events are displayed by location on a map. By clicking on a displayed dot on the map, an information function allows the user to retrieve ProMED posts linked to the corresponding location on the map. The application can be accessed at http://sonoran.mitretek.org/gismsr/bioevents/. The current version of the application is limited to documents from ProMED, and covers only diseases and other biological events with specific locations occurring in the United States. The current data set goes back to September 1998 but includes a few older postings as well. If only the state is identified, the capital of the state is shown as the location. It is hoped that this application will prove to be of value to members of the public health and national security communities in identifying and tracking disease processes over space and time. Other applications of this technology are envisioned that would provide near-real-time tracking of events. Mitretek Systems is a nonprofit company that works in the public interest through the application of science and technology. Feedback or inquiries are welcome." ProMED
moderator JW adds: First, you have to find a taskbar on the left with an index of diseases and their colored dots, and a toolbar at the top. Next, maximize the screen, otherwise you dont see the box on the bottom that appears when you click on a dot, which contains the hot link to the ProMED post. (There are some links to other sources, e.g. Plaguescape, as well). Then I suggest that you use the magnifying glass marked + from the top toolbar to draw a box round the 48 contiguous states & enlarge it to fill the screen. Next, untick all the boxes in the left-hand taskbar to clear all the dots. Then click the Hantavirus box on the left & 2 brown dots appear on the map, one on the CA/NV border & the other in AZ. Click on the dot in AZ and a box appears at the bottom of the screen with some relevant info & a hot link to our post on "Hantavirus from old bones," in which a certain Mod.CHC tells about finding dried rodent bones in the Arizona desert. Theres also a pull-down query menu. Mod.CHC wites: "I was able to query 'Ballina' and got all the listings on the Australian bat lyssavirus. Which is pretty remarkabls since the map only shows the USA!" |
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| My other Environment related site links. |
| Department of Health emergency planning links |
| The Emergency Planning Society "is the UK's foremost professional body for all those with an involvement with any form of crisis, emergency or disaster planning and management. We draw our members - there are about 850 - from a wide range of backgrounds, including local government, industry, the utilities, the emergency services, volunteers, educational establishments, the legal profession and independent consultants. The Society produces independent advice and guidance for its members and for others through a series of sub groups. Their areas of interest include Business Continuity, oil pollution, evacuation and welfare, Year 2000, nuclear and other hazardous sites and Civil Protection in Europe. Much of that information is now available from this site." |
| The Chemical Incident Response Service which we use in Surrey (and which covers a large part of the UK) is part of the medical toxicology unit at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust. The site includes Acrobat versions of their excellent checklists. |
| Birmingham's Chemical Hazard Management Research Centre.They have recently published guidance on IPPC for HAs. |
| The NHS'excellent "planning for major incidents" NHS web site (or here if you have access to the NHSWeb). |
| LOCATORplus includes useful links. |
| Toxbase (toxicology data) |
| CANUTEC's Home Page (re non-communicable hazards) |
| Arsenic contamination in drinking water is emerging as a serious public health problem in Bangladesh (from Dr. Abul Kalam Azad, Dhaka, Bangladesh.) |
| Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. Air and Environmental Quality. http://www.environment.detr.gov.uk/airq/aqinfo.htm. Also Ceefax pp410-417, teletext p106, and Freephone 0800 556677. |
| ATSDR - ATSDR's Home Page. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry has a vast amount of data, questionnaires and data collection instruments, etc. Brilliant site! |
| Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP) reports, including 13/1/98 report on the quanitification of the health effects of air pollution. |
| Right to Know site (US) - includes Toxic Release Inventory (as does the EPA's website) |
| The US "The National Symposium on Medical and Public Health Response to Bioterrorism". The symposium was televised, and large portions of the symposium can be downloaded and viewed with Realplayer at http://www.hopkins-biodefense.org/. |
| Indoor Air Quality List iaq@onelist.com. The list owner writes: 'The IAQ List is a moderated forum to discuss issues and concerns regarding "Indoor Air Quality". A variety of compounds, elements & conditions can pollute & contaminate the indoor air quality of a home, office or building from molds and bioaerosols to combustion by-products like carbon monoxide, soot, PAHs & VOCs - many can cause serious health concerns and, in some cases, extensive property damage. This list addresses the identification and mitigation of contaminants. The IAQ Listserve subscribers consist of highly qualified individuals in IAQ consulting, environmental health, toxicology, science & research, H/VAC engineering , industrial hygiene, risk management, recovery & restoration, insurance, medicine & law. The posts are usually not so numerous to be burdensome; however, when subscribing, the "Digest" option is provided if you prefer to receive posts in one e-mail. There is no advertising involved or permitted on the list - only a growing group of professionals interested in addressing IAQ concerns & solutions. To Subscribe go to: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/iaq. If you don't have internet access send a blank message to: iaq-subscribe@onelist.com This list features a different useful &/or interesting IAQ related web site each week in the trailers at the end of each post. If you have or know of a site that should be considered - contact me privately with the URL at RKFABF@aol.com > C. Flanders IAQ List Manager/Moderator rkfabf@aol.com. The IAQ List now sponsors an interactive bulletin board for sharing Job Listings & Openings in the IAQ & Related Fields. Feel free to post any openings for which you are seeking qualified candidates. If you are a qualified IAQ professional or a professional in a related field who is seeking new employment feel free to leave a post. GO TO: The IAQ Job Line Bulletin Board at http://disc.server.com/Indices/39418.html. You can join this list by going to the following web page: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/iaq. |
| Relating to other communicable disease issues, there is a presentation about glutaraldehyde (widely used for disinfection): http://www.metrex.com/bioshare%20datasheets/bioshare.htm. |
| Following the scare about dioxins and PCBs in Belgian meat and eggs in Spring/Summer
1999, you may be interested in the following web sites: "Dr. M. Vadivale has set up an excellent website summarizing the dioxin situation in Europe and the impact worldwide as well as providing good links for further information on dioxin in general. The site gives excellent links to government websites, news wire service websites, and government agency website: http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/2188/dioxin.html. IARC announcements, and the IARC Monographs main page. |
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| Public Health Laboratory Service' "deliberate release" pages. |
| www.medact.org ("we highlight the health impacts of violent conflict, poverty and environmental degradation, and with others act to eradicate them") |
| Federal emergency management agency |
| Medical NBC Information Server" – has US Army textbooks, including Medical Management Of Radiological Casualties (MMRC), Medical Management of Biological Casualties (MMBC), and Medical Management of Chemical Casualties (MMCC) handbooks. |
| Biodefense Reference Library: "In response to increased US and Inernational threats involving biological weapons of mass destruction, a Biodefense Reference Library has been added to the Humanitarian Resource Institute web site. "Included on this site is an Academic Discussion Platform (password protected) for private dialogue, discussion and sensitive information associated with biodefense issues." |
| http://biotech.law.umkc.edu/blaw/Bioterror.htm - Terrorism and Bioterrorism Resources from the (US) "Center for Public Health Law" at http://biotech.law.umkc.edu/cphl/index.htm |
| There are a series of very good factsheets on the CDC Atlanta bioterrorism site: www.bt.cdc.gov (click on "agents" at the top of the left hand column) |
| (US) Association of State and Territorial Directors of Health Promotion and Public Health Education "Model Emergency Response Communications Plan For Infectious Disease Outbreaks and Bioterrorist Events", which can be downloaded via http://www.astdhpphe.org/bioterr/publication_order_form.htm |
| Link to a useful US Army Manual on Medical Management of Biological Casualties (their "Blue Book", which can be downloaded in a variety of formats via www.usamriid.army.mil/education/instruct.html. |
| Similarly, link to US Army Handbook on Medical Management of Chemical Casualties (MMCC) (their "Red Book" via http://ccc.apgea.army.mil (click on "reference materials", listed under "Training materials" in links at left of page), or directly via http://ccc.apgea.army.mil/Documents/RedHandbook/mmccthirdeditionjul2000.pdf (beware – it is large!) |
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| EPI Info is free software, made available from the WHO, for epidemiology and outbreak management/analysis. A Year 2000 compliant version is now available - version 6.04. |
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| Travax, travel advice: www.travax.scot.nhs.uk. (Needs a password, or can be accessed cia doctors.net, by members. Anybody with a GMC registration number can become a member of doctors.net.) |
| National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC) (which is funded by the Department of Health). |
| The UK "Yellow book" on travel advice can be downloaded (free) via the Stationery Office or from www.official-documents.co.uk/document/doh/hinfo/index.htm. |
| US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention travel and international health advice. (You can download the CDC "Yellow Book" from here.) |
| The January 2000 update of the World Health Organization's International Travel and Health is available on WHO's website (WHO International travel and health. Vaccination requirements and health advice - situation as on 1 January 2000. Geneva, WHO: 2000. ). The first chapter, printed on yellow paper, lists vaccination requirements by country with epidemiological information about malaria and recommended prophylaxis. The next chapter advises travellers on protecting their health abroad. A table of vaccinations recommended and advised by WHO gives information about the vaccines, lower age limits for their administration, and the time required for protection to develop and its duration. Also included is advice on immunization for HIV infected people and on the risk of tuberculosis transmission during air travel. International Travel and Health (ISBN 92 4 1 580259) is available in English and French. (SwFr17/US$15.30, in developing countries Sw.Fr11.90) from Marketing and Dissemination, WHO, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland; fax: +44 22 791 4857; email: <bookorders@who.ch>. See also the WHO site: International travel and health. |
| Tropical medicine web sites: see also www.malaria.org; www.who.int/tdr/; www.who.int/ctd/; www.who.int/ith/english/; www.mahidol.ac.th/mahidol/tm/h-tromed.htm; www.astmh.org; www.tropmed.tulane.edu; www.rstmh.org; www.liv.ac.uk/lsrm/ihd98-ehc.html#eu. |
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| Bugs in the News! This site contains information on a wide range of micro-organisms, and also about how they can be identified. There is a page on how PCR (polymerase chain reaction) can be used to identify e.g. meningococci. The American tone may jar some European readers, but the information contained seems excellent and useful |
| Many national communicable disease reports/bulletins are available in Acrobat's .PDF format. They include the UK's CDR Weekly, and the USA's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) MMWR. Eurosurveillance Weekly and Eurosurveillance Monthly can both be accessed via the web, and they include a longer list of European Union and other bulletins, together with contact addresses, phone/fax numbers, and (where available) web sites. |
| Communicable disease and public health (journal): www.phls.co.uk/publications/CDPHind.htm |
| Eurosurveillance. |
| The Eurosurveillance Weekly website, "the fastest with authoritative news on communicable diseases in Europe". |
| The International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, published jointly by the International Society of Chemotherapy and Elsevier Science, is now available full text online. To register for the complimentary table-of-contents service by email, go to: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/contentsdirect. |
| Journal of Hospital Infection. From Stephen P. Barrett of Imperial College (Feb 1998). The UK Hospital Infection Society (HIS), Publisher of the Journal of Hospital Infection, is going live on the Web. You can visit the HIS web site at http://www.his.org.uk which also gives details of the 4th. International Conference in Edinburgh next September. An electronic discussion group has also been set up which will be open to anyone with an interest in nosocomial infection. To subscribe, email majordomo@his.org.uk with the request 'subscribe his-l' (without the quotes). |
| Trends in microbiology (possibly available only to BioMednet subscribers. |
| Vaccine |
| WHO's Weekly Epidemiological Record |
| From Stephen P. Barrett of Imperial College (Feb 1998). The UK Hospital Infection Society (HIS), Publisher of the Journal of Hospital Infection, is going live on the Web. You can visit the HIS web site at http://www.his.org.uk which also gives details of the 4th. International Conference in Edinburgh next September. An electronic discussion group has also been set up which will be open to anyone with an interest in nosocomial infection. To subscribe, email majordomo@his.org.uk with the request 'subscribe his-l' (without the quotes). |
See also the list of medical journals and publishers on my main medical links web page. . (Or here.)
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| Public Health Inspector/EHO Web Page. |
| The Food Standards Agency website was launched on 3/4/2000. Food issues are now the responsibility of the Food Standards Agency. |
| Health, Environment & Work, a newly relaunched website from the University of Edinburgh, Department of Public Health Sciences. It is primarily an academic site containing hundreds of pages, dealing mainly with Occupational and Environmental Health. It includes open learning tutorials, and other educational resources from the University of Edinburgh's teaching programmes in these areas, as well as a search facility and up-to-date links to hundreds of other related sites worldwide. |
| "This list will be of interest to all practitioners of occupational and environmental medicine and occupational health. Its aim is to promote discussion about current issues and to foster a global approach to research and teaching." For information about joining the list: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/occenvmed/join.html |
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| Association of Medical Microbiologists "Facts About" leaflets: http://www.amm.co.uk/html/publications.htm. | ||||
| The APIC Resource Line has developed a fact sheet on human bites that may be a useful resource when dealing with this issue. This fact sheet is available on the APIC web site in the Resource Center at http://www.apic.org/html/resc/humanbit.pdf. | ||||
| 'The International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene(IFH) has a very interesting web site
that includes "Guidelines for Prevention of Infection and Cross-Infection in the
Domestic Environment." The topic of home hygiene in the prevention of community-based
infection is one that is underappreciated. Therefore the IFH was founded by scientists who
have been investigating this area and advocating for increased awareness and research. I
am sure subscribers to APIClist will be interested in these on-line guidelines, the
mission of IFH, and other information provided at this site. Kudos to the IFH for
providing a very useful resource. The URL for this site is: http://www.ifh-homehygiene.org In a related matter, the January 1999 issue of the electronic section of the journal Pediatrics features an investigation of the sources of _Salmonella spp_ in the domestic environment of children with infection due to this organism. For additional details visit the following URL: http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/103/1/e1 Schutze GE, Sikes JD, Stefanove R, Cave MD. The home environment and salmonellosis in children. ePediatrics 1999;103(1):e1. | ||||
| Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center recently had a consensus symposium on home hygiene. They produced a consensus document on the subject of home hygienet. Or should the URL be this one? | ||||
| Illustrations of handwashing: try http://www.lifeart.com: just type in 'washing hands' in the box. Try also http://www.barrysclipart.com/. | ||||
| Infection Control for Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers in the African Health Care Setting - from CDC | ||||
| The NSTC Committee on International Science, Engineering, and Technology (CISET) Working Group on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases web site. | ||||
| Bugs in the News! This site contains information on a wide range of micro-organisms, and also about how they can be identified. There is a page on how PCR (polymerase chain reaction) can be used to identify e.g. meningococci. The American tone may jar some European readers, but the information contained seems excellent and useful. | ||||
| Australian Centre for International & Tropical Health & Nutrition covers infectious disease issues such as malaria. They keep sending me invititations to their annual conferences (I can't think how I got on their mailing list), which look excellent - but rather expensive when you add in travel from the UK. | ||||
| APIC-CDC Bioterrorism Readiness Plan: A Template for Healthcare Facilities. J F English (no relation) wrote in April 1999: "Bioterrorism Readiness Plan: A Template for Healthcare Facilities" is available! The product of this APIC-CDC partnership is now on APIC's website (www.apic.org) and soon will appear on CDC's website (www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/) to be downloaded free of charge for use by any healthcare facility. The format is easily adapted to suit individual needs of institutions, a "cookie cutter" approach to creating specific bioterrorism readiness plans. APIC National Office is already mailing out templates on floppy discs &/or printouts to those individuals and institutions who have ordered them via the www.APIC.org website. | ||||
| Site about glutaraldehyde. | ||||
| The (?US') Intravenous Nurses Society. | ||||
| Two internet sites recently listed on Promed mail that may be of interest:
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| British Lyme Disease Foundation |
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| There is an excellent resource on malaria at www.rph.wa.gov.au/labs/haem/malaria/index.html. From the Royal Perth Hospital in Australia this site has excellent teaching materials on malaria. But I haven't checked if it is consistent with UK guidelines. |
| UK Guidelines are published in CDPH (Bradley DJ, Bannister B, on behalf of the Advisory Committee on Malaria Prevention for UK Travellers. Guidelines for malaria prevention in travellers from the United Kingdom for 2001. Commun Dis Public Health 2001; 4: 84-101) and at http://www.phls.co.uk/publications/cdph/issues/CDPHvol4/No2/malaria_guidelinesp.pdf. |
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| Meningitis research foundation. I have found the MRF to be extremely helpful in outbreaks, and for people who feel that they or their friends or family might be at risk of meningococcal disease. They run and excellent 24-hour, nurse-run, freephone (within the UK) help-line - 080 8800 3344. |
| The National Meningitis Trust also have a web site and email address. Their 24-hour, nurse-run help-line is (as from October 1998): 0845 6000 800. They have an excellent resource pack for professionals. |
| Surrey Health Protection Unit's meninigitis and meningococcal disease guidance |
| PHLS meningococcal infection fact sheet. |
| The meningococcal disease protocol for Brunel University has been posted on their web site: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/admin/services/meningitis/. |
| Information about the Meningococcal group C vaccination campaign (UK, 1999 - 2000). (Or here.) |
| US information on meningococcal disease is available on the CDC website, http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo and the American College Health Association. The US CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has modified its guidelines for use of the polysaccharide meningococcal vaccine for "college freshmen": see http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/meningococcal_college.htm and http://www.nfid.org/publications/ and "The Changing Epidemiology of Meningococcal Disease in the U.S. with an Emphasis on College Health Issues". |
| www.medinfo.co.uk/conditions/meningitis.html |
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| DoH guidance issued to interpret the NICE guidance states that we will be told "when flu is circulating" (para 7 of the DoH implementation guidance - available at www.doh.gov.uk/zanamivirguidance/), with the information "cascaded through REs and Flu Co-ordinators each Thursday and on the web at www.doh.gov.uk/flu/". More detailed information on the guidance is available at the NICE web site. |
| UK Flu activity data from CDSC and from the RCGP spotter practices. The latter also has information on flu vaccine uptake. |
| WHO Influenza Surveillance Country Information Report. |
| EuroGROG Bulletin. |
| European Influenza Surveillance Scheme. |
| Each year from October through May, weekly updates of summaries of U.S. influenza surveillance data are available from the following CDC Internet site: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/flu/weekly.htm. |
| There is lot of information on a flu pandemic plan at http://www.cdc.gov/od/nvpo/pandemicflu.htm. |
| Hillingdon's pandemic flu [pre-]plan - (under documents). |
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| Of particular note is the link to the UK's BSE enquiry. |
| Another excellent link is the Institute of Food Science & Technology, which has excellent links to BSE-related issues, as well as to other food issues. |
| Martin Hugh-Jones recommendes the Portuguese Web Site for BSE: "This is really a most admirable site and very nicely done. Well worth a visit." |
| Mad Cow has many excellent links (and possibly some silly ones): |
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I have posted information about head lice, including guidance for schools, here.
| The International Surveillance Network for the enteric infections - Salmonella and VTEC 0157 (Enter-NET) has just launched its own internet website. The site is intended to provide a first point of contact for those wishing to find out more about Enter-NET, browse the quarterly reports, and view associated information. The website can be accessed by pointing your browser to: http://www.enter-net.org.uk. For more information contact Chris Walker (email), or via snailmail at PHLS Communicable Disease, Surveillance Centre, England. See also WHO's Salmonella surveillance network. | ||||||
| FDA-CFSAN Introduction to Foodborne Pathogens. | ||||||
| The UK's Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST) web site. "IFST has today [12/9/97] published a new Update of its Position Statement on BSE. It intends to publish more new Position Statements and updates, on various topics, in the coming months. ... The full texts on all new and existing Position Statements can be accessed at and, if desired downloaded from, the IFST Web site." J Ralph Blanchfield, MBE, Food Science, Food Technology & Food Law Consultant, Chair, IFST External Affairs, Web Editor, Institute of Food Science & Technology.) | ||||||
| www.FoodSafety.gov: 'a "gateway" web site designed to help the public find government food safety information more readily on the web. The site provides links to food safety-related web sites from federal, state and local government agencies. "www.FoodSafety.gov" is one of the initiatives of the May 1997 National Food Safety Initiative Report to the President. This site was developed by FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) in consultation with USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS). | ||||||
| http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html - the "bad bug book" on line (and more regularly updated). Fact sheets on many bugs and toxins. Proper name: U.S. Food & Drug Administration Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition. Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook. | ||||||
| US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. | ||||||
| WHO EHEC MEETING REPORT. Alan Reilly, via ProMED, reported on 3/7/97 that the World Health Organisation recently organised a consultation meeting on the Prevention and Control of Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC). The consultation was attended by leading experts from 14 countries with a view to sharing experiences and lessons learned regarding contamination of the food supply with EHEC strains and to exchange information on current approaches to the prevention and control of infections and outbreaks caused by E. coli O157 and other EHEC. The report of the consultation is available on the WHO Home Page under the Programme on Food Safety and Food Aid http://www.who.ch./programmes/fsf, or from reillya@who.ch. | ||||||
| The following WHO reports are available at http://www.who.it/programmes/food_safety.htm#Activities.
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| The web pages of the WHO/EURO Food Safety Programme have been updated with the following
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| www.foodlink.org.uk - Food Safety site (n.b. food safety week 1999 started on 7/6/99). | ||||||
| "Information concerning proper, humane, non-human animal control, a key factor in the decrease or elimination of zoonotic transmission, is not the easiest thing to find when members of the public or healthcare professionals in human medicine are faced with a zoonosis. In order to facilitate the exchange of this type of information, ... will create a links page" - see "Zoonoses & Infections Web Site for the General Public" at www.zoonotics.com. | ||||||
| The UK Food Standards Agency's draft report on its BSE control review is now available at www.bsereview.org.uk in either Word or pdf format. On that page is a link to: www.bsereview.org.uk/templates/register/register.cfm where one can register to receive updates, FSA BSE digests etc. There is also a link to www.bsereview.org.uk/data/your_say.htm which enables one to comment to FSA on the draft report. | ||||||
| Marco Jermini, Food Safety Regional Advisor, World Health
Organization Regional Office for Europe writes: "I am please to notify you that
some pages of the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health (ECEH) Rome Division have
been updated and that new ones have been added.In
particular:
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| Denis Green in Perth, Western Australia (email legion@q-net.net.au
or mg@multiline.com.au) says he has two web
sites: http://www.q-net.net.au/~legion and http://www.multiline.com.au/~mg. "The
first site covers nearly everything when it comes to Legionnaires Disease, it is full of
information on the subject, from the first outbreak to the last outbreak, the causes the
and the cures, and so on, it has graphics, pictures and maps and lots of links to other
sites on the subject. "My second site covers Air-conditioning, Legionnaires Disease, and how to kill Legionella, which is really a simple exercise to do. Legionnaires Disease is a preventable Disease, it is also the only Disease that private enterprise can make lots of money out of, there is that many different types of gadgets out there, that there should never be another outbreak, or another death from the disease, yet people still die. "I maintain my site on LD for my own benefit, if it helps people that are looking for information on the subject that's all well and good." |
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Leukaemia research fund. This site has quite a lot of useful information, including details on a handbook on investigating small clusters of diseases, which is of wider use than just for leukaemia.
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| "The following web site has a tremendous amount of information regarding recommendations for rabies prevention in humans. It has information regarding various types of vaccines and recommendations regarding revaccination and titer levels. Web address is: <http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056176.htm>." |
| Not perhaps medical sites, but relevant to the control of communicable disease, specifically rabies. A green paper (government discussion document, produced to stimulate discussion prior to introducing legislation - cf. a white paper, which is describes planned legislation) is to be produced in the UK, concerning possible changes to the UK's quarantine laws. According to a post to the ProMED listserver 'The text of the pre-Green Paper review can be viewed by following the link from QUAFF web page,or directly on the Passports for Pets web page.' According to the ProMED moderator, 'The first site contains information on import regulations for the UK. It is a good enough "surfing" site that you can quickly link to information on not only import regulations from other European (and non European) countries. A real nugget snatched from the surf is Stu MacDiarmid's case study/risk assessment of importing rabies to New Zealand, which is a very early example of the genre. We will see decision making concerning animal and public health increasingly influenced by the results of quantitative risk analysis. The second site is also informative but, like the former, for those who really want in depth coverage of this question.' |
| Rabies was officially eliminated in Switzerland in 1999. The Swiss Veterinary Service website and the Swiss Rabies Centre, University of Berne, provide more information on this... |
| WHO Rabies network (RABNET) |
| Rabies web site. Has information about a rabies listserver. More information from H. TSIANG, Head Rabies Unit, Pasteur Institute, France. |
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| Martin Hugh-Jones (Coordinator, WHO Anthrax Working Group) wrote (on 15 Oct 1998): "With the help of my admirable colleague Ms. Kathleen Harrington, aided by her husband Dudley, we have constructed a website for anthrax reports, utilising OIE, FAO, and private & public information. It can be found at: http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/whocc/, and then hit the "Anthrax" button. So far, the national data reports are limited to the Americas. The rest of the world will be provided as we go along. Europe is scheduled to be next. If you have any comments, please let us have them. This website is under construction and I am sure there will be a number of things we could do better." |
| A free e-learning program for the general public on anthrax from APIC and CertiLearn, their e-learning partner. To access this free public health education program on anthrax, log on to www.apicelearn.org and click on demo. "The purpose of this public service program is to help people learn about anthrax, what to do and what not to do to protect self and family, how to design a family emergency plan, and how to talk with children about anthrax. This program offers related hyperlinks and references, a glossary, and frequently asked questions" |
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| PHLS TB web site |
| WHO TB sites: http://www.who.int/gtb/, http://www.stoptb.org; |
| The CDC Core Curriculum on Tuberculosis, Fourth Edition, 2000 states,"The reaction to the Mantoux test should be read by a trained health care worker 48-72 hours after the injection. Patients should never be allowed to read their own tuberculin skin test results. If a patient fails to show up for the scheduled reading, a positive reading may still be measurable up to 1 week after testing. However, if a patient who fails to return in 72 hours has a negative test, tuberculin testing should be repeated." (You can get copies of the core curriculum from the CDC web-site and can also download a set of slides from http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb.) |
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| Comprehensive information on leptospirosis/Weil's disease is available on http://www.eng.livjm.ac.uk/weils/. |
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| "A special supplement to the Journal of Infectious Diseases on Ebola was published in February 1999. The supplement is a concise source of available information which also identifies remaining gaps in knowledge and puts Ebola epidemics into an understandable public health context. The supplement may be accessed on-line: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JID/journal/contents/v179nS1.html. |
| "Infection Control for Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers in the African Health Care Setting." When this manual is available online, the actual URL will be http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/vhfmanual.htm. |
| The Regional Office of the WHO for the South East Asian region have made their guidelines for treatment of Dengue Fever and dengue haemorrhagic fever in small hospitals available over the web. It's in acrobat format, about 400k to download, 38 pages. |
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| The new hep B leaflet for infected mothers and a new leaflet for midwives are now available and have been sent to health authorities. The leaflet is available on the web at www.doh.gov.uk/hepatitisb. |
| There is a range of excellent material on viral hepatitis available at the US' National Center for Infectious Disases. The materials include fact sheets on the various forms of hepatitis, and tutorials for health professionals. The only down-side to this information is that it is very US-related, and the risks and policies are different there. |
| Clinical guidelines on the management of hepatitis C (compiled on behalf of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the British Society of Gastroenterology by J C L Booth, J O'Grady, J Neuberger) |
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| Information about RSV: http://www.healthanswers.com/database/ami/converted/001564.html. |
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| Detailed information on hantavirus and precautions to take. |
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