Infectious Diseases
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- Rubeola (Measles)
- Also know as red or hard measles. Is best known for its typical skin rash. It is, however, a respiratory infection. Includes symptoms, treatment, prevention, incubation period, and duration.
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- NPR : Measles Outbreak Shows Even Vaccinated Are at Risk
- A measles outbreak in Boston shows how the global economy opens opportunities for contagious viruses. Disease detectives say a computer programmer from India brought the measles virus to Boston's tallest office tower. The outbreak reveals that millions of Americans in their 30s and 40s are vulnerable to measles, even though they were vaccinated years ago. [5:15 streaming audio broadcast] (June 21, 2006)
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- Medinfo: Mumps
- Information for patients on mumps, a virus infection which typically causes enlargement of the two salivary glands in the cheeks at the angle of the jaw.
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- MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Mumps
- Factsheet with cause, prevention, diagnosis, complications, symptoms, and treatment.
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- MedlinePlus: Mumps
- Facts about mumps for adults and children. Includes flowchart for neck swelling, prevention and screening information.
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- NPR : Search Is On for Source of Iowa Mumps Epidemic
- Two infected airline passengers may have helped spread mumps from Iowa to several other Midwestern states, health officials say. The outbreak is the largest in 18 years. [3:55 streaming audio broadcast] (April 13, 2006)
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- Nipah Virus Infection
- Detailed factsheet with information on the disease, its importance, distribution and transmission and the infections it causes in both humans and other animals. [PDF]
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- Nipah Virus Infection
- Factsheet on this emerging disease which can spread from its wildlife reservoir to pigs and humans where it causes an often fatal disease.
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- Nipah Virus Infection: Pathology and Pathogenesis of an Emerging Paramyxoviral Zoonosis
- Paper published in the American Journal of Pathology in 2002 about this previously unrecognized paramyxovirus infection.
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- BioMed Central :A summertime peak of "winter vomiting disease": Surveillance of noroviruses in England and Wales, 1995 to 2002
- Research article on the disease.
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- Norovirus
- Article from Wikipedia on this group of RNA viruses that cause outbreaks of epidemic non-bacterial gastroenteritis around the world.
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- MedlinePlus: Rabies
- National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases documents and links about Rabies.
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- Rabies Bulletin Europe
- Reports on the disease and surveillance information from the World Health Organization.