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Infection dissection
POSTED 1 NOV 2000

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Paper
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health, Laurie Garrett, Hyperion, 2000.

Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in the United States, Joshua Lederberg, et al, eds., Institute of Medicine, 1992.

Epidemic! The World of Infectious Disease, Rob DeSalle, ed., The New Press, 1999.

The Hot Zone [Ebola outbreak], Richard Preston, Anchor Books, New York, 1995.

Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues, Frank Ryan, Little, Brown, 1997.

Climate Change and Human Health, World Health Organization, 1996.

Special Section: Malaria Research, Science, 20 October, 2000, pp. 428-41 (policy, African research, vaccines, drugs, genome sequencing, mosquito engineering).

Electronic
All the Virology on the WWW.

Centers for Disease Control's Division of Parasitic Diseases

How Ebola attacks

Pretty (not!) parasite pictures

This Lyme disease site is no lemon.

The crusade to stop bushmeat

For global statistics on HIV/AIDS, check out UNAIDS.

Epidemic!: The World of Infectious Disease

Fervid for the facts about Ebola?

From the folks who award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine... parasitic diseases!

Our emerging and infectious credits.

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