Infectious Diseases

Internet Resources:

Aids.org
The mission of AIDS.ORG is to help prevent HIV infections and to improve the lives of those affected by HIV and AIDS by providing education and facilitating the free and open exchange of knowledge at an easy-to-find centralized website.

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Avian Influenza
• Pandemic Flu
• SARS
• Swine Flu

Disaster Prepareness Capacity Map
The Disaster Preparedness Capacity Map identifies by country the diverse range of current NGO capacities that indicate the level of community preparedness or that could potentially be leveraged in a disaster. It identifies those capacities already on the ground as an indicator of the level of preparedness of communities as well as response capacities of NGOs – including health programs, disaster preparedness programs, food security programs, community outreach and media programs.

DoD Worldwide Influenza Surveillance Program
E-book by National Academies Press

Emedicine.
Articles on infectious diseases:

• Influenza 4/27/09
• Swine Influenza A (H1N1) Virus 4/28/09

• Aids
• Pandemic Influenza
• SARS
• Swine Flu

FBIIC / FSSCC Pandemic Flu Exercise of 2007
(Financial Banking Information Infrastructure Committee/Financial Services Sector Coordination Council)

Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council
Pandemic Influenza Preparedness, Response, And Recovery Guide for Critical Infrastructure And Key Resources.
This guide has has been completed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) (2006).
Available at: https://www.fsscc.org/reports/2006/CI_KR_Pandemic_Guide.pdf

Flu.gov
Flu.gov provides comprehensive government-wide information on seasonal, H1N1 (swine), H5N1 (bird) and pandemic influenza for the general public, health and emergency preparedness professionals, policy makers, government and business leaders, school systems, and local communities.

GEISWeb
Official web site of the U. S. Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System designed for the prevention of and response to infectious diseases threatening military personnel or present a risk to national security.
Available at: www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/

Global Health Council
On behalf of our members, partners and key stakeholders around the world, the Global Health Council promotes a comprehensive and evidence-based approach to ensure that global health remains a top priority within the broader development agenda.

Global Threat of New and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: Reconciling U.S. National Security and Public Health Policy
By: Jennifer Brower, Peter Chalk

Hawaii Medical Library: Tropical Medicine.

HIV InSite
Comprehensive, up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and policy from the University of California San Francisco.

Homeland Security Digital Library
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation’s premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. Also at HSDL:

• Pandemic Influenza
• Pandemic Influenza: Domestic Preparedness Efforts

Johns Hopkins Infectious Diseases

National Foundation for Infectious Diseases

National Institutes of Health

SARS Reference
A medical textbook that provides an overview of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
Available at: http://www.sarsreference.com/

U.S. Global Health Policy
Kaiser Foundation gateway for the latest data and information on the U.S. role in global health.

U.S. Preparations for Pandemic Influenza

Virtual Naval Hospital
Virtual Naval Hospital is a digital library of naval medicine and military medicine and humanitarian medicine.
Available at: http://www.vnh.org/

• Swine flu updates

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Videos/Dvd’s:

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Bioterror.
Boston, MA : [Distributed by] WGBH Boston Video, c2001. 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad, authors of the book Germs: biological weapons and America’s secret war, trace the history of “black biology” and investigate U.S. involvement in the development of biological weapons.
RC88.9 .T47 B56 2001 (VHS)

The Coming Plague.
Ned Judge. Largo, MD : CNN, c2001. 2 videocassettes (approx. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
The virus hunters is an expose on doctors who are faced with drug-resistant viruses and new strains of bacteria which are emerging. The price of passion talks about the impact of AIDS around the world-what is being done to help prevent and control AIDS and how new drugs and treatments can be rationed out. Revenge of the microbes discusses doctors around the world are dealing with infectious diseases that are resistant to traditional antibiotics such as penicillin. This hour of the program talks about the shrinking arsenal of drugs available to treat disease. A world out of balance discusses how changing political, social and economic environments affect the environment for disease. Asia-Pacific has only Part 3 – World out of balance!
RC111 .C6 1997 PT. 3

The Doomsday Flu.
Ned Judge. Largo, MD : CNN, c2001. 1 videodisc (approx. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
This DVD shows the effects of the worst epidemic in American history, the influenza of 1918.
RCA644 .I6 D6 1998

Ebola : The Plague Fighters.
South Burlington, VT : WGBH Video, 1996. 1 videocassette (approx. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
An investigation into the deadly Ebola virus and the 1995 outbreak of the disease in Kikwit, Zaire.
RC140 .E3 1996

Guns, Germs, and Steel.
[United States] : National Geographic, [2005]. 2 videodiscs (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
An epic detective story that offers a gripping expose on why the world is so unequal. Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Diamond dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns.
HM206 .G86 2005

A History of Bioterrorism: Biological Warfare and Terrorism.
[Washington, D.C.] : Dept. of Health and Human Services : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, c2003. 1 videocassette (26 min., 34 sec.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Short segments describe the Category A diseases which include: smallpox, anthrax, botulism, plague, tularemia, and viral hemorrhagic fevers. Discussion includes the history of these diseases, how they spread, and how this information can help prepare in the event these germs were used to intentionally infect people.
UG447.8 .M55 2003

Hot Zones.
Marilyn Weiner. Washington, D.C. : Screenscope, c2003. 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
This film “explores the link between environmental change and human health: are we winning the battle to prevent global outbreaks of infectious disease? Environmental change is fostering the tide of contagion which threatens to engulf us all–Container. Journeys to Kenya, Peru, Bangladesh, and the United States. Originally broadcast as a segment of the second season of the public television series, Journey to planet earth.
RA651 .H68 2003 (VHS)

Influenza 1918.
[Washington, D.C.] : PBS Home Video, c1998, 2005. 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in. ; 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. & b&w; 4 3/4 in.
In September 1918, soldiers stationed near Boston suddenly began to die. Doctors found the victims’ lungs filled with a strange blue fluid. They identified the cause as influenza, but it was unlike any strain ever seen, and medical science proved powerless against it. In desperation, people turned to folk remedies, while frantic officials closed all public places and everyone was required to wear masks. But the virus was unstoppable, relentless, devastatingly lethal. By the time the epidemic ran its course, over 600,000 people were dead, more than all U.S. combat deaths of the 20th century.
RC150.4 .A2 I54 2005 (DVD) ; RC150.4 .A2 I549 1998 (VHS)

Killer Flu.
[Alexandria, Va.] : Educational Broadcasting Co. : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2004, 2003. 1 videocassette (ca. 57 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. ; 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
The video discusses the 1918 flu pandemic, its deadly consequences, and the possibility that a similar strain could occur today.
RC150.4 .K555 2004 (VHS) ; RC150.4 .K55 2003 (DVD)

The Next Plague: Avian Flu.
[New York] : History Channel/A & E Television Networks : Distributed in the U.S. by New Video, c2005. 1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

The Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization say that we are long overdue for a deadly epidemic, and it isn’t a question of if but when. Here in the US the questions are already being asked. Are we ready? How can we prevent it? What will be the cost in lives? What measures are pharmaceutical companies taking to develop vaccines and a possible antidote. Examines the potential effects a large-scale epidemic would have on the United States and the rest of the world. If a nationwide quarantine is put into effect, who will enforce it–the National Guard? Also examines new evidence that the Great Epidemic of 1918 may have been an Avian Flu.
RA644 .N49 2005

Outbreak! The New Plagues.
[New York] : History Channel/A & E Television Networks : Distributed in the U.S. by New Video, c2002.  1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. and b&w; 4 3/4 in.
Examines the major epidemics of the 20th century, focusing on the flu epidemic of 1918, the polio epidemic, and AIDS.
RA653 .O97 2002 (DVD)

RX for Survival : A Global Health Challenge.
[Boston, MA] : WGBH Boston Video, c2005. 3 videodiscs (336 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Examines the most critical health threats facing the world today by portraying conditions in over twenty countries, examining why diseases that are curable still persist, the efforts to treat them, and the dangers of new “superbugs.”
RA441 .R9 2005 (DVD)

SARS and the New Plagues.
[S.l.] : History Channel : Dist. in the U.S. by New Video, c2003. 1 videocassette (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Discusses the recent severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreaks in China and Toronto in relation to other 20th century diseases, like AIDS, and the difficulty of preventing the spread of these plagues.
RC772 .V5 S373 2003 (VHS)

Smallpox: Deadly Virus.
A&E Television Network, c2000. 1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col.  ; 4 3/4 in.
Since 1977 smallpox has existed only in laboratory vials. This video examines the history of this disease and the current controversy over the planned destruction of the remaining virus specimens. Because immunization stopped nearly twenty years ago, the entire human population is vulnerable to the disease, yet some argue that the final step to destroy it should not be taken. Those who argue for its destruction fear that, if it is not eliminated, it could re-emerge as the deadliest of all biological weapons.
RA644 .S6 2000 (DVD)