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National Center for Infectious Diseases, U.S.Focus on DCs
This site summarizes the surveillance, research, prevention efforts, and training resources of the Center that is committed to the prevention and control of traditional, new, and re-emerging infectious diseases around the world. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/index.htm


Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network Focus on DCs
PPHSN is a voluntary network of countries/territories and organisations for public health surveillance and response. It focuses on six epidemic communicable diseases: dengue, measles, influenza, leptospirosis, cholera, and typhoid. The site describes the organization’s activities particularly the email listserv (PacNet), laboratory network (LabNet) and response network (EpiNet). .http://www.spc.int/phs/PPHSN/


PubMed – Free Fulltext Articles on Disease Surveillance (17000+) new
This PubMed search will identify all disease surveillance related free fulltext ejournal articles within the database. Within the search results, there are links to the fulltext material. By repeating this search periodically, you will find new fulltext articles that are added to the PubMed database weekly. ‘Health Links’ contains similar searches for most subpages listed in the ‘Specific Health Resources’ table of contents. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=%22loattrfree%20full%20text%22%5Bsb%5D%20AND%20%28%22disease%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20disease%5BText%20Word%5D%29%20AND%20%28%22epidemiology%22%5BSubheading%5D%20OR%20%28%22epidemiology%22%5BTIAB%5D%20NOT%20Medline%5BSB%5D%29%20OR%20%22epidemiology%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20surveillance%5BText%20Word%5D%29


World Health Organization: Communicable Disease Surveillance and ResponseFocus on DCs
Organized by disease, this site provides information on each disease: impact, history, geographic distribution and surveillance, and news of outbreaks plus links to other relevant sites. It is available in pdf format in French and Spanish. http://www.who.int/emc/diseases/index.html


World Health Organization: Disease Outbreak News Focus on DCs
This site reports disease outbreaks that have been submitted to the WHO's Communicable Disease Surveillance and Control Committee. It is a tool to strengthen national and international capacity in the surveillance and control of communicable diseases. http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/

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