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Aids.org
Available at: http://www.aids.org/
CDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Available at:
http//www.cdc.gov
Also at CDC:
SARS
Available at:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/
Avian Influenza
(Bird Flu)
Available at:
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/index.htm
Pandemic Flu
Available at:
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic/
CRS Report for Congress.
Pandemic Influenza: Domestic Preparedness Efforts.
November 10, 2005. Sarah A. Lister
Available at: https://www.hsdl.org/homesec/docs/crs/nps21-111605-03.pdf
Emedicine.
Articles on infectious diseases.
Available at: http://www.emedicine.com/med/INFECTIOUS_DISEASES.htm
Emerging
Infectious Diseases :
a
peer-reviewed Journal tracking and analyzing disease trends.
Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/index.htm (and)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/eid/index.htm
FDA.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Available at: http//www.fda.gov
SARS: http://www.fda.gov/cber/sars/sars.htm
Aids: http://www.fda.gov/oashi/aids/hiv.html
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.
Provides world
health news on HIV/AIDS, women's and children's health, infectious diseases
and emerging threats.
Available at: http://www.globalhealth.org/
Global
Health Reporting.org
Provides
journalists and others with the latest information on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis
and malaria.
Available at: http://www.globalhealthreporting.org/index.asp
Hawaii
Medical Library: Tropical Medicine.
Links to organizations, references and government resources.
Available at: http://hml.org/WWW/tropical.html
HIV
InSite
A project of the University
of California San Francisco (UCSF) AIDS Research Institute. Designed as a
gateway to in-depth information about particular aspects of HIV/AIDS, it
provides numerous links to many authoritative sources. Subjects are arranged
into "Key Topics" and the site may also be searched by key words. Many
items are provided in full text.
Available at: http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite
Johns
Hopkins Infectious Diseases.
Available at: http://hopkins-id.edu/
Mayo
Clinic.
Available at: http://www.mayoclinic.com/index.cfm
MedlinePlus.
A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the
National Institutes of Health.
Available at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov
Also:
For
SARS see: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/severeacuterespiratorysyndrome.html
For HIV see: http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/hiv.html
National
Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
Available
at: http://www.nfid.org/
National
Institutes of Health
The
National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the
U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for
conducting and supporting medical research.
The
National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza.
PDF:
Available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/nspi.pdf
HTML:
Available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/pandemic-influenza.html
Related materials are also available at:
Fact Sheet:
Safeguarding
America Against Pandemic Influenza
Available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051101.html
Navy Department Library:
Influenza
of 1918 (Spanish Flu) and the U.S. Navy
Available at:
www.history.navy.mil/library/online/influenza_main.htm
Pandemic
Flu
website.
The official U.S. government web site for information on pandemic flu and
avian influenza.
Available at:
http://www.pandemicflu.gov/
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
SARS
Reference.
A medical textbook that provides an overview of severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS).
Available at:
http://www.sarsreference.com/
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/
World
Health Organization : Infectious Diseases.
Available
at: http://www.who.int/topics/infectious_diseases/en/
Worldwatch
Institute State of the World 2005 - Containing Infectious Disease.
Available
at: http://www.worldwatch.org/features/security/tf/4
USAMRIID.
U.S. Army Medical
Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
Available at: http://www.usamriid.army.mil/index.htm
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America's
Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918.
Alfred
W. Crosby.
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003. 337p.
Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish
influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives, more people than
those perished in the fighting of the First World War. Yet, the Spanish flu
pandemic is largely forgotten today. In this vivid narrative, Alfred W. Crosby
recounts the course of the pandemic during the panic-stricken months of 1918
and 1919, measures its impact on American society, and probes the curious loss
of national memory of this cataclysmic event. In a new edition, with a new
preface discussing the recent outbreaks of diseases, including the Asian flu
and the SARS epidemic.
RA644.16
.C76 2003
Beyond
Sovereignty : Issues for a Global Agenda.
Maryann
K. Cusimano. New York : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000. 331p.
Takes
a fully revised, post-September 11th look at the pressing global issues that
sovereign nation-states cannot solve alone
including
terrorism, disease, refugees, nuclear smuggling, environmental problems, cyber
threats, international crime, and drug trafficking. Maryann Cusimano helps
readers put the events of September 11th into the larger context of
globalization, challenges to globalization, the rise of non-state actors and
trans-sovereign
problems, and the difficulties of managing cross-border problems in a world of
sovereign states. Throughout, the author argues that global issues go beyond
sovereign borders
and
therefore, that solutions must also go beyond sovereignty.
KZ4041
.B49 2000
Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic.
Marc Siegel.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2006.
202p.
The most important thing to know about the avian flu pandemic is that
it probably ain't coming, argues this brisk debunking of the latest medical
scare story. Siegel cites evidence that the death rate from avian flu could
be much lower than the reported estimate of 50% and it will probably not
mutate to be readily transmissible between humans. And unlike the 1918
Spanish flu pandemic, a new bird flu pandemic would face effective public
health measures and medical treatments. Revisiting the West Nile virus,
anthrax, SARS and bioterrorism panics, Siegel sees bird flu as the latest
"bug du jour" hyped by government and media alarmism. Meanwhile, he
complains, attention is diverted from far more deadly diseases like AIDS,
malaria and regular flu.
RA644 .I6 S534 2006
Bird Flu & Bio-Security : Is the World a Dead Duck?
Michael Richardson. Singapoe : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2005.
23p.
The deadly H5N1 strain of avian bird influenza has become endemic in East
Asia
since 2003, when it first spread to humans and caused deaths in Hong Kong.
By mid-November 2005, the virus had infected at least 125 people in Vietnam,
Thailand, Indonesia and Cambodia, killing about half of them. The biggest
risk for the Asia-Pacific region is the one that faces the world ads a
whole: if the H5N1 virus changes into a strain that can spread easily from
person to person and has a high infection and death rate, it will be
difficult, if not impossible, to stop. The consequences of such a pandemic
could be catastrophic.
RA644 .I6 R53 2005
The Bird Flu Preparedness Planner: What it is, How it Spreads, What You Can
Do.
Gratton Woodson.
Deerfield Beach, Fla. : Health Communications, c2005.
84p.
The Bird Flu is real. It's deadly. And it's spreading. Within the next
year it could threaten your home, your livelihood, your family and even your
life. It may not become the pandemic many experts now fear, but do you
really want to take the chance of being totally unprepared? This book is not
hype. It's not scare tactics. It's the facts: what avian influenza is and
what it can become from a physician who understands not only the bird flu,
but what you realistically can and should do to protect your loved ones.
Inside you'll find: A brief history of flu pandemics (like the 1918 flu).
The current state of the bird flu. Possible consequences of a flu epidemic.
How to prevent infection for you and your family. Your personal medical and
supply kit. What to do if someone is infected. There's no better preparation
than information. Before you make any decisions, get the facts from the
doctor who knows.
RA644 .I6 W64 2005
The Coming Plague : Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance.
Laurie Garrett. NY
: Farrar, Strauss and Girous, c1994.
750p.
In this gripping,
often harrowing study, the author probes the human impact on
the environment and takes us on a 50-year journey through the world's
battles with microbes, and examines the conditions that have culminated in
recurrent outbreaks of newly discovered diseases, epidemics of diseases
migrating to new areas, and mutated old diseases that are no longer curable.
RA651 .G37 1995 Reserves
Critical Issues in Global Health.
C. Everett Koop. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass, c2002, c2001.
472p.
Offers insight into the most important health issues facing our world's
population. These never before published essays explore the future of
international health and explain what will be required in order to provide
adequate health and medical care worldwide, especially for underdeveloped
countries.
RA441 .C75 2002 Reserves
East
Asia Imperilled : Transnational Challenges to Security.
Alan
Dupont.
Cambridge,
U.K.
:
Cambridge
University
Press, 2001.
336p.
Dupont argues that an emerging new class of non-military threats has the
potential to destabilize East Asia and reverse decades of hard-won economic
and social development. Transnational threats stem from overpopulation,
deforestation and pollution, global warming, unregulated population movements,
transnational crime and virulent new strains of infectious diseases.
GE160 .E18 D86 2001
The
Economics of Biological Invasions.
Charles Perrings. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar,
c2000. 249 p.
Preface: the Global Invasive Species Program (GISP) -- Economic factors
affecting vulnerability to biological invasions -- Infectious diseases
as invasives in human populations -- Risk reduction strategies against the
'explosive invader' -- The economics of an invading species: a
theoretical model and case study application -- Weed invasions of
Australian farming systems: from ecology to economics -- An introduced disease
in an invasive host: the ecology and economics of rabbit calicivirus disease (RCD)
in rabbits in Australia -- Invasive species in tropical rain forests: the
importance of existence values -- Economic consequences of alien infestation
of the Cape Floral Kingdom's fynbos vegetation -- The impact of invasive
species in African lakes -- Economic evaluation in classical biological
control /
QH353
.E36 2000
Environmental
Health: from Global to Local.
Howard Frumkin.
San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2005.
1108p.
Offers students a comprehensive introduction to environmental
health. It provides an overview of methods and paradigms used in this
exciting field, ranging from ecology to epidemiology, from toxicology to
environmental psychology, from genetics to ethics to religion. The authors
survey the major issues in contemporary environmental health, ranging from
global issues such as climate change and war to regional issues such as air,
water, transportation, and energy to local issues such as food safety, pest
control, and occupational health. The book includes a strong focus on the
real-world practice of environmental public health, offering chapters on
such applied topics as risk assessment, risk communication, health services,
regulations, and legal remedies. While "Environmental Health" is grounded in
the U.S. experience, it emphasizes global issues and perspectives on such
topics as economic development, population, urbanization, and sanitation.
RA565 .E482 2006
Environmental
Health in Central Asia: the Future and Present.
D. Fayzieva.
Boston: WITPress,
2004.
257p.
This book provides information on how environmental conditions in
Central Asia have been affected by anthropogenic activity and reviews
research carried out during the last decades on the impact of the
environment on the health of the region*s people. The contributors* aim is
to promote a better understanding of current environmental health problems
in the area and to prompt joint multidisciplinary research by local
scientists and their colleagues from other countries. Such research could
lift the veil on numerous environmental processes, which negatively or
positively influence health, and contribute to the development of effective
protective arrangements. Among the topics covered are hydrosphere and health
in the Aral Sea basin, occupational hygiene in industry and agriculture,
children's health, and pesticides.
RA566.5 .A783 E59 2004
Epidemic
Disease and Human Understanding : A Historical Analysis of Scientific and
Other Writings.
Charles De Paolo.
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., Inc.,
2006.
258p.
De Paolo (English, City U. of New York-Manhattan Community College)
explores the description of epidemics throughout recorded Western
literature. He begins with I Samuel 5-6, advances through classical Greece
and Rome, oddly misses the Middle Ages, and surfaces again in London in
1664-65. The final section looks at modern eyewitness reporting, language,
and imaginative writing, which includes a final chapter on the dynamics of
fear and the mechanisms of resistance.
RA649 .D47 2006
The Gathering Biological Warfare Storm.
Jim A. Davis & Barry R. Schneider.
Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. : USAF Counterproliferation Center, 2002.
313p.
A new threat is stalking nations, as terrorist organizations and rogue
states alike appear intent on acquiring and using the "poor man's nuclear
weapon": biological agents such as anthrax, smallpox, and plague. Attacks
against Americans during the past dozen years may be an indication of more
worrisome events to come. U.S. military forces in Japan were attacked in
April of 1990 with botulinum toxin by the Aum Shinrikyo cult. Hundreds in
Oregon were sickened with Salmonella after an attack in 1984. And small
amounts of anthrax resulted in wide spread panic and frequent evacuations
across country in the fall of 2001. In this book ten experts discuss in
detail the threats posed by bio-weapons and assess the current state of U.S.
biological defenses.
UG447.8 .G38 2002
Global
Health Challenges for Human Security.
Lincoln
Chen, et al. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, c2003. 310p.
The goals of health and human security are fundamentally valued in all
societies, yet the breadth of their interconnections are not properly
understood. This volume explores the evolving relationship between health and
security in today's interdependent world, and offers policy guidelines for
global health action. This volume underscores three basic principles. First,
recent developments in the changing security landscape present enormous
challenges for human security and global health. Second, although the
connections between health and security are long-standing, the current context
of new conflicts, pervasive poverty, and accelerating global flows has brought
the fields closer together. Finally, a human security approach dependent upon
individual and collective action can identify new strategies for meeting the
goals of global health and security.
RA441 .G567 2003
Global Health Leadership and Management.
William H. Foege.
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2005.
241p.
SARS; Mad Cow Disease; HIV/AIDS; obesity...such new
health challenges emerge each day around the world. What health leaders can
and must do to manage these looming public health crises is precisely the
subject of this book. An essential guide to improving world health by
enhancing health care management skills. This book distills valuable lessons
from a wide variety of successful health programs that have been implemented
around the world. Gives practical suggestions for enhancing and developing
the essential skills of leadership, management, communication, and project
planning for health care leaders. This book will assist health leaders to
work well within their communities and effectively plan, direct, implement,
and evaluate effective programs and activities.
RA441 .G5685 2005
The
Global Threat of New and Reemerging Infectious Diseases : Reconciling U.S.
National Security and Public Health Policy.
Jennifer
Brower and Peter Chalk.
Santa
Monica, Calif. : Rand, 2003. 146p.
This study offers an analysis of the security implications of the spread of
infectious diseases. The study examines the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in
South Africa, highlighting this particular crisis as a graphic example of the
devastating effects that infectious disease can have on virtually every aspect
of a state's functioning viability. It also makes a detailed analysis of the
United States, delineating the threat posed by specific diseases; assessing
the effectiveness of the existing public health infrastructure; and offering
specific actions that can be taken to improve the country's ability to meet
this emerging threat.
Also available at:
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1602/
RA643.5 .G564 2003
The
Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History.
John
M. Barry. New York : Viking, c2004. 546p.
No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great
influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals
infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as
troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled
ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed
in twenty years; it killed more people in a year than the plagues of the
Middle Ages killed in a century. Victims bled from the ears and nose, turned
blue from lack of oxygen, suffered aches that felt like bones being broken,
and died. In the United States, nearly seven times as many people died of
influenza as in the First World War.
RC150.4 .B37 2004
The Health of Nations : Infectious Disease, Environmental Change, and Their
Effects on National Security and Development.
Andrew
T. Price-Smith. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002. 220p.
The relationship among infectious disease, environmental change, international
prosperity, and political stability.
RA643 .P75 2002
The
Impact of HIV on Children in Thailand. Condensed
version.
Tim
Brown. [Bangkok]
Thailand : Program on AIDS, Thai Red Cross Society, 1996. 55p.
Prepared by the Program on AIDS, Thai Red Cross Society;
East-West Center, Program on Population & Save the Children (UK) ; funded
by Save the Children (United Kingdom).
RJ387.A25
B76 1996
The
Impact of HIV on Children in Thailand.
Tim
Brown.
Thailand : Program on AIDS, Thai Red Cross Society,
1995. 258p.
Prepared by the Program on AIDS, Thai Red Cross Society;
East-West Center, Program on Population & Save the Children (UK) ; funded
by Save the Children (United Kingdom).
RJ387.A25
B76 1995
Learning
from SARS : Preparing for the Next Disease Outbreak : Workshop Summary.
Knobler,
Stacey.
Washington,
DC : National Academies Press, c2004. 359p.
The emergece of a novel human coronavirus in late 2002 alarmed
populations across the globe. By the time this coronavirus receded from human
hosts in July 2003, nearly 10 percent of the 8000 individuals afected had died
of the disease now known as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Analysis
of this epidemic could lead to improvements in the global community's
preparedness for and response to future global outbreaks of infectious
disease.
RA644
.S17 L43 2004
The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu.
Mike Davis.
New York : New
Press, 2005
212p.
The 2003 avian flu outbreak in China killed more than 100 people
in just one week. Over one million chickens were slaughtered in an attempt
to contain the disease. A related virus strain triggered a Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 26 countries, leaving 916 deaths in
its wake. Davis explains the science behind the outbreaks, characteristics
of the various strains, how they spread from animals to humans, and the
mistakes and miscalculations of scientists, governments, and food industries
that nearly caused worldwide panic. He draws parallels to the 1918 influenza
pandemic that killed more than 50 million people worldwide. In his view, the
world's increasing demand for animal protein, burgeoning human and animal
populations, freedom of travel, and globalization of poultry production may
lead to another international pandemic. He stresses the need for cooperation
among producers, marketers, and governments to impose safeguards and
extensive vigilance to prevent such a catastrophe. Citing evidence drawn
from over 300 periodicals, newspapers, books, and government reports, this
important work reminds us that the politics of food safety is a global
issue.
RA644 .I6 D387 2005
Preparing
for Terrorism: Tools for Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical Response System
Program.
Frederick
J. Manning.
Washington,
DC : National Academies Press, c2002. 310p.
Reports on the expansion of the
experimental model of Metropolitan Medical Strike Team (MMST), established in
Washington, D.C. into a national program to respond to a mass-casualty
terrorism incident. Provided to allow the state and federal governments to
create preparedness and public health in order to protect Americans from
future biological, chemical, and radiological terrorist events. The report is
not indexed.
RA645.5
I54 2002
Preventive
Diplomacy : Stopping Wars Before They Start.
Kevin
M. Cahill.
New York : Routledge : Center for International Health and Cooperation,
2000. 330 p.
The suppression of war has been the primary objective of the UN for
almost fifty years, and stopping a war before it starts is easier than ending
a war already underway. History, however, has shown that military
interventions and economic sanctions often do more harm than good. In
"Preventive Diplomacy", Nobel prize winners, top officials, and
revered thinkers tackle these issues and explore the process of conflict
prevention from humanitarian, economic, and political perspectives. This
cross-disciplinary reader on global politics demonstrates that when new
insights and methodologies on public health are applied to the handling of
international disasters, the change in policy perspective is intriguing--even
hopeful. Includes a chapter on emerging infectious diseases as threats to
global security.
JZ6045
.P74 2000
The
SAF SARS Diaries.
Pointer
: Journal of the Singapore Armed Forces Supplement. May 2004. 36p.
Articles on SARS.
U1
.P62
2004
SARS:
a Case Study in Emerging Infections.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
133P.
The sudden appearance and rapid spread of Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome (SARS) in 2002 served to alert the world to the fact that emerging
infections are a global problem. The SARS epidemic tested
global preparedness for dealing with a new infectious agent and raised
important questions: how did we do, and what did we learn? This book uses the
SARS outbreak as a case study to enumerate the generic issues that must be
considered when planning the control of emerging infections. Emerging
infections are more than just a current biological fashion: the bitter
ongoing experience of AIDS and the looming threat of pandemic influenza
teach us that the control of infectious disease is a problem we have not yet
solved. Scientists from a broad range of disciplines - biologists,
physicians, and policy-makers - all need to prepare. But prepare for what?
RA644 .S17 S27 2005
Secret
Agents : the Menace of Emerging Infections.
Madeline
Drexler.
Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2002. 316p.
The most menacing bioterrorist is Mother Nature herself, declares
science journalist Drexler. She backs up her argument with stories of
infectious microorganisms from ancient plagues to HIV. Antibiotic-resistant
tuberculosis, newly recognized infectious agents like
Creutzfeldt-Jakob-causing prions, and predictions of a postantibiotic era
create a chilling story of a future in which surgery is no longer safe and
treatments for even the simplest infectious diseases are no longer available.
Drexler includes chapters on food-borne and insect-borne disease, the 1918 flu
pandemic, and bioterrorism. One of the most interesting chapters is on the
possible connection between infectious agents and chronic diseases like heart
disease and schizophrenia. Throughout, Drexler decries inadequate U.S.
support of public health planning, programs, and research.
RA653 .D74 2002
State
of the World, 2005 : Redefining Global Security.
WorldWatch Institute.
New
York, NY:
Norton,
2005.
237p.
Worldwatch reaffirms the importance of other, less-publicized threats
to global stability and security: the complex interactions between
environmental degradation, poverty, and inequity; growing human populations;
and the international proliferation of deadly weapons. Emphasizing the
opportunities for creating a less vulnerable, more secure world, State of the
World 2005 addresses a broad range of needed reforms, including those related
to governance, economics, ethics, and education. With easy-to-read charts and
tables.
HC59 .S733 2005
Strategic
Implications of HIV/AIDS.
Stefan
Elbe. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003. 78p.
Contents covers: Health, strategy and HIV/AIDS -- The impact of
HIV/AIDS on armed forces -- HIV/AIDS and peacekeeping operations -- HIV/AIDs
and political stability.
U162 .A3 NO. 357
World
At Risk : A Global Issues Sourcebook.
Washington
D.C.
:
CQ Press, 2002. 692 p.
Provides analyses of thirty issues that are of international importance. Among
the issues covered are biodiversity, international criminal justice,
terrorism, water, status of women, and world trade.
JZ1242.W67 2002
World
Epidemics: A Cultural Chronology of Disease from Prehistory to the Era of
SARS.
Mary Ellen Snodgrass. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland &
Co., c2003. 479p.
The chronological entries of this book provide a
record of the impact upon human culture of epidemic illness and death
throughout history. From the bone deposits suggesting yaws bacteria on a
femur from 498,000 B.C., to an outbreak of sudden acute respiratory syndrome
(SARS) in 2003, the work covers demographics, symptoms, community health,
nursing, study, prevention, treatment, and disease control since ancient
times. Enhancing the historical data are a map of resurgent vector-borne
diseases and comparative charts of types of infection, results of scourges,
and rough estimates of people affected by each event. A glossary clarifies
106 crucial terms. Appendix A lists diseases by both proper and informal
names, Latinate names of pathogens, dates and places of early outbreaks of
each disease, and the manner of their infection. Three additional appendices
present historic writings on disease. Two bibliographies (general resources;
specific diseases) of major works, histories of medicine, health journals,
and web sites on the history of contagion, and a generously cross-referenced
index complete the work.
REF RA649 .S65 2003
World
Resources : a Report by the World Resources Institute and the International
Institute for Environment and Development.
World Resources Institute. New York : Basic Books,
c1986-.
World Resources 1998-99 focuses on the critical issue of environmental
change and human health. Drawing on the latest scientific data, this section
explores how environmental conditions contribute to the current burden of
death and disease around the world and how that may change over the coming
decades. Looks at several critical trends that are changing the physical
environment and thereby have the potential to influence human health on such
topics as the intensification of agriculture, industrialization, and rising
energy use. As in previous volumes, World Resources also looks at the current
state of the environment as it relates to population and human well-being,
resources at risk, and consumption and waste. The book also contains the
latest core country data from 157 countries and new information on poverty,
inequality, and food security.
REF HC10 .W827 1998-99
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Videos/Dvd's:
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
(VHS)
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)
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U.S.
Department of State.
Electronic
Journals.
"Health
Systems for HIV/AIDS and Other Diseases" (December 2001); "AIDS:
The Threat to World Security" (July 2000); "Infectious
Diseases: The Global Fight"
(November 1996).
The
electronic resources listed on this page often feature articles on foreign
policy issues, including conflict resolution and peacekeeping.
Available at: http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/journals.htm
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Counterterrorism.
Focuses on the issues and controversies that pertain to counterterrorism/terrorism.
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