Common Communicable
Diseases
Common Communicable
Diseases
Mononucleosis,
includes signs and symptoms, description of the virus, tests, prevention,
incubation period, duration, treatment.
http://kidshealth.org/teen/infections/common/mononucleosis.html
What is mono?
What causes mono? What are the symptoms/ How is it treated?
http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/infectious-mononucleosis-topic-overview
Mononucleosis - MayoClinic.com
28 Jun 2008 ... Mononucleosis Comprehensive overview covers symptoms and
treatment of kissing disease in adults and children.
www.mayoclinic.com/health/mononucleosis/DS00352
Mononucleosis -
The Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/ebv.htm
Hepatitis
The alphabet soup of Hepatitis: A,
B, C, D and E. What they are, how they are transmitted and treated.
http://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/
Hepatitis Teens Health
http://kidshealth.org/teen/infections/stds/hepatitis.html
Hepatitis A - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/hepatitisa1.shtml
Hepatitis A familydoctor.org
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/infections/hepatitis/897.html
Hepatitis - The Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/index.htm
Hepatitis B World
Health
Hepatitis B is a potentially life-threatening liver infection caused by the
hepatitis B virus. It is a major global health problem and the most serious type
...
www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs204/en/
Hepatitis B - MayoClinic.com
Hepatitis B Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, vaccine prevention of this
sometimes chronic liver disease.
www.mayoclinic.com/health/hepatitis-b/DS00398
Hepatitis B familydoctor.org
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/infections/hepatitis/032.html
What I need to know about Hepatitis C
National Inst. of Health.
Explains the prevention, causes, symptoms, modes of transmission, and treatment
of hepatitis C.
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/hepc_ez/
Hepatitis C -- familydoctor.org
Information about hepatitis C from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/infections/hepatitis/071.html
Tuberculosis
(TB)
Tuberculosis (TB)
Teens Health
http://kidshealth.org/teen/infections/bacterial_viral/tuberculosis.html
Tuberculosis
World Health
Tuberculosis is a contagious disease. Like the common cold, it spreads through
the air. Only people who are sick with TB in their lungs are infectious. ...
www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs104/en/
Tuberculosis - MayoClinic.com
Tuberculosis Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment, prevention of
this common infectious disease.
www.mayoclinic.com/health/tuberculosis/DS00372
Tuberculosis -
The Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/tb/
Strep
Throat
Strep Throat Teens Health
http://kidshealth.org/teen/infections/bacterial_viral/strep_throat.html
Strep Throat - What is Strep Throat? -
WebMD
Is it strep? Learn about diagnosing strep throat symptoms in children and adults
, and how antibiotics are used for treatment.
www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/strep-throat-topic-overview
Strep throat - MayoClinic.com
Strep throat Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes and treatment in
children and adults.
www.mayoclinic.com/health/strep-throat/DS00260
Strep throat
-
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/getsmart/antibiotic-use/URI/sore-throat.html
For further
consideration:
Healthy Pets
Healthy People
Pets are wonderful companions, but they can pass diseases to people. This site
tells how to safely enjoy pets. It has information about people at risk
(pregnant women, people with compromised immune systems), guidelines for animals
in institutional settings, and a glossary. Additional resources include
articles, brochures, posters, information hotlines, and links to other Web
sites. Browsable by animal or disease. From the National Center for Infectious
Diseases.
http://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/
Global Health
Program
Website of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's project concerning diseases
and conditions that cause widespread illness and death in developing countries.
The program focuses on developing effective and affordable vaccines and
medicines. Provides background information on malaria, HIV/AIDS, respiratory
illnesses, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/global-health/Pages/overview.aspx
The Most
Dangerous Woman in America
Companion to a Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS) NOVA program about "Typhoid
Mary" (Mary Mallon), "a cook who was quarantined for life against her will in
the early 1900s" because she was a carrier of typhoid fever. The site features a
historical analysis, a letter from Mary asking for her release, and a chronology
of quarantine. Also includes an interactive epidemiology feature, program
transcript, teacher's guide, bibliography, and links to related sites.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/typhoid/
News, background information, and other resources relating to the
eradication of this paralysis-causing infectious disease "caused by a virus ...
[that] can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three." Includes
fact sheets, vaccine information, polio status data, and strategic documents and
status reports on efforts to eliminate polio in countries such as Nigeria and
Afghanistan. From the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a joint effort of
groups including the World Health Organization (WHO).
http://www.polioeradication.org/