Disease+Links

Disease Links

 * ** Starting Point Resources **
 * [|World Health Organization]
 * [|Center of Disease Control]
 * [|National Institute of Health]
 * [|Health map -global disease alerts]
 * [|Pictures of select pathogens]


 * Statistical Resources **
 * If you can’t find data elsewhere, especially for world data:
 * [|WHO sources]
 * [|PDF files on different global diseases] (cholera, African sleeping sickness, dengue, meningococcal disease)
 * This links to publications that give info, especially gives current and future outlook. (Dengue, TB, Syphilis, Malaria, leprosy, tyrpanasomiasis)
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Gale Virtual Reference Library: Medicine: This will take you to our ebook references- this would count as a "print"source as it is really an actual book online. **Our library** has many excellent books being held on reserve for you that would be good for your print source. || ** Resources by Disease **
 * Prints resources:**
 * African Sleeping Sickness
 * [|African Sleeping Sickness]
 * Lots of Info here: [|African trypanosomiasis]
 * Data: [|www.who.int] (do search, choose the WHO report on global surveillance, under table of contents choose Tables, then choose the PDF file)
 * This gives data through 1998. [|www.who.int/ctd/html/trypanoepidat.html]
 * Dracunculiasis
 * __http://www.who.int/topics/dracunculiasis/en/__
 * Malaria:
 * This will give you data through 1997. Look for totals columns.
 * [|www.who.int/docstore/wer/pdf/1999/wer7432.pdf]
 * [|World Malaria Report]
 * Mad Cow:
 * [|PBS News Hour]
 * Dengue Fever:
 * WHO Dengue - http://www.who.int/topics/dengue/en/
 * []
 * [|www.paho.org/English/AD/DPC/CD/dengue_history.htm]
 * Data: []
 * Leprosy/ Hansen's disease:
 * []
 * [|http://www.who.int/lep/resources/wer/en/index. html]
 * pick the first and last records to get a range of data
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 * gives new cases detected for several years- choose the new case pdf
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 * Cholera:
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 * For this one, choose the document at the bottom that has global surveillance. The annual summaries will also give you more recent years to add to that. USE FOR DATA and use the annual summaries to get more years to date.
 * Diphtheria:
 * [|WHO site]
 * Tuberculosis:
 * []
 * Choose the regional summary in the Excel format. Use totals. ||