Infectious Diseases
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- About Pediatrics: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
- Learn about the symptoms and treatments of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which can classically include fever, headache, vomiting, and a characteristic rash that usually begins on a child's wrists and ankles.
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- MedicineNet: Leptospirosis
- Doctor produced consumer health information on leptospirosis, including symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.
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- MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Leptospirosis
- Features cause, symptoms, treatment, diagnosis, prevention, risk factors, and complications.
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- Connecticut Tick Control - Fighting Lyme Disease
- Information regarding tick control and the spread of tick-borne diseases.
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- FDA: Beware of Ticks and Lyme Disease
- Questions and answers about the effects, symptoms, diagnostic tests and treatment for Lyme disease.
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- Lyme Disease Audio Network
- The place to hear audio archives of news and public service announcements to help educate people about the seriousness of this disease.
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- Lyme Disease Info
- Covers the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tick borne infections. Advocacy details, books, and peer-reviewed medical literature are also linked.
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- Lyme Disease Resource Center
- Message boards and chat, newsletter, disease information, patient experiences and stories, directory of related sites, and books for sale.
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- Lyme Disease: A Patient's Guide
- Prepared as part of a cooperative agreement between the American College of Physicians and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Includes an introduction, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and a glossary.
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- Lyme Disease: General Information and FAQ
- Includes information on Ixodes dammini, the deer tick responsible for most cases of the disease, the symptoms in man and animals, the treatment and tick control.
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- MedlinePlus: Lyme Disease
- The National Institutes of Health provide information on transmission, screening, research, and treatment.
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- eMedTV's Lyme Disease Channel
- Providing medically reviewed information on LD, the early symptoms, treatment options and ways to prevent it. Includes tick removal
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- DermNet NZ: Tick-borne Relapsing Fever
- Provides information including clinical features, skin manifestations, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
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- MedicineNet: Yaws
- Factsheet on this bacterial disease including causes, symptoms, treatment, diagnosis, transmission and prevention.
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- MedlinePlus: Yaws
- Factsheet with causes, symptoms, exams and tests, treatment, outlook, possible complications and prevention.
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- WHO: Yaws
- Provides information on this chronic infection that affects mainly the skin, bone and cartilage, its symptoms, worldwide control and prevention.
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- Yaws: A Forgotten Disease
- Factsheet on this chronic infection including past control efforts, its possible eradication, its prevalence, symptoms and treatment.