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Definition: An infectious disease is a clinically evident disease of humans or animals that damages or injures the host so as to impair host function, and results from the presence and activity of one or more pathogenic microbial agents, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions. Transmission of an infectious disease may occur through several pathways; including through contact with infected individuals, by water, food, airborne inhalation, or through vector-borne spread. Source: Wikipedia
HIV AIDS Information
A large set of scientific dictionaries with important HIV AIDS Information featuring terms, phrases and acronyms related to AIDS, with a complete detail of the disease and its symptoms.
Addressing Infectious Disease Threats
Infectious diseases are human illnesses caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi and other microbes. They may be spread by direct contact with an ...
Emerging infectious diseases: disease information: NCID: CDC
Plan describes how CDC and its international partners can collaborate to prevent the emergence and spread of infectious diseases.
EMedicine-Infectious Diseases
Directory of full length articles on various diseases.
Global Health Council - Infectious Diseases
Infectious Disease information
Infectious Disease- Wikipedia
Informational Site
Infectious Disease Society of America
Includes information about the IDSA, a career center, newsroom, practice guidelines, and journals and publications.
Medline Plus
Articles about infectious disease and infectious disease links
Merck Manual-Infectious Disease
Specific and general clinical information on infectious diseases and their treatment.
National Center for Infectious Disease
Homepage for the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases. Source for infectious disease information,
programs, organizational information.
World Health Organization
United Nation's Agency to stop the spread of infectious diseases.
Causes
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Person to person. The most common way for infectious disease to spread is through the direct transfer of bacteria, viruses or other germs from one person to another. This can occur when an individual with the bacterium or virus touches, coughs on or kisses someone who isn't infected. These germs can also spread through the exchange of body fluids from sexual contact or a blood transfusion." Source: VaccinePlace
Common Causes of Infectious Diseases
Common Causes of Infectious Diseases.
Common Infectious Diseases Worldwide — FactMonster.com
The following is a list of the most common infectious diseases throughout the ...
Mayo Clinic-Infectious Diseases
Information on the spreading of diseases
Statistics
"Before the chickenpox vaccine was introduced in 1995, there were about 4 million cases of chickenpox. With vaccination, the frequency of new cases has decreased in all age groups, especially in children ages one to four years.
Source: George Washington University MFA
CDC
Statistics from the Center for Disease Control
Dykes Library - Online Medical Reference System (OMRS), Morbidity ...
Statistics - Morbidity: Infectious Diseases ...
Infectious Diseases
The following statistics are the latest available from the National Center for Health Statistics
NationMaster.com
Statistics on infectious diseases by country
Statistics of Infectious Disease - George Washington University MFA
Statistics relating to infectious disease
Statistics from the Influenza Pandemic
The massive mortality due to the influenza epidemic in October of 1918 in Kansas. The epidemic of the virulent influenza virus hit Kansas in 1918 leading to ...
WHO 
A guide to statistical information at WHO
Spread
"The most common way for infectious disease to spread is through the direct transfer of bacteria, viruses or other germs from one person to another. This can occur when an individual with the bacterium or virus touches, coughs on or kisses someone who isn't infected. These germs can also spread through the exchange of body fluids from sexual contact or a blood transfusion." Source:
CNN.com.
Environment and health: New insights into spread of infectious ...
Environment and health: New insights into spread of infectious diseases. Scientists have offered the world another good reason to protect the environment. ...
Infectious diseases: How they spread, how to stop them - CNN.com
Use CNN.com's Health Library to find information on family health, men's health, women's health, children's health, seniors' health, fitness & nutrition, ...
Infectious Diseases and How They Are Spread
Chart showing how diseases are spread.
How does an infectious disease spread?
An infectious disease is any disease caused by germs that can be spread from one person to another. Germs include viruses, bacteria and protozoa. ...
Infectious diseases: How they spread, how to stop them ...
Infectious diseases spread in many ways, but you can minimize your risk of infection from the Mayo Clinic
Reducing the Spread of Infectious Disease
Infectious diseases can make life miserable for everyone involved in child care: children, parents, caregivers and centre staff. We can't prevent all infections, but we can control their spreading.
WHO Report on Infectious Diseases Chapter 9 text
Many factors aid the spread of infectious diseases. Key points:. Key determinants of health often lie outside the control of the health sector ...
Pandemics
A pandemic (from Greek παν pan all + δήμος demos people) is an epidemic that spreads through human populations across a large region (for example a continent), or even worldwide. Source: Wikipedia
Ask the Epidemiologist: Questions About the Flu
The last two influenza pandemics, in 1957 and 1968, were caused by the mixing ... Epidemiologists are concerned about pandemics because the increased amount ..
BBC NEWS | Health | Past pandemics that ravaged Europe
With experts warning of a possible bird flu pandemic, the BBC News website looks at some of the worst diseases to hit Europe.
CDC National Vaccine Program Office: Pandemic Influenza
Includes information on past pandemics, flu defense tactics, and pandemic planning guides.
Epidemics
Experts argue that preparations against avian flu have to continue, even if the virus’s failure to mutate into a pandemic strain has given the world more ...
Ethics & Pandemics
Exploring ethical issues that arise in influenza pandemic planning and response, focusing on issues of social justice.
MMC Knowledge Center - Global Pandemics
Our latest thinking about pandemics and avian flu
The Next Influenza Pandemic
During the past century, indisputable pandemics of influenza occurred in 1918, 1957 and 1968, with significant morbidity and mortality in both high risk and ...
Pandemic Flu
One-stop access to US Government avian and pandemic flu information.
Pandemic, Flu (Influenza), NIAID, NIH
Research efforts to understand past pandemics and fight future ones.
Pandemic - Wikipedia
Information Site
Predictions for future human influenza pandemics.
Will there be another human influenza pandemic? The certainty is that there will be, and the probability is that the virus will emerge from Eurasian aquatic ...
Timeline of Human Flu Pandemics, NIAID, NIH
Pandemics through the ages
WHO | Pandemic preparedness
An influenza pandemic occurs when a new influenza virus appears against which the human population has no immunity, resulting in several, .