Essential Health Links: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases/Infectious Diseases, Viral


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All the Virology in the World
Ebola Virus Page
Global Polio Eradication Initiative
Hepatitis Information Network (HEPNET)
PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Viral Diseases
SARS Reference
Smallpox and its Eradication
WHO: Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever
WHO: Influenza

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All the Virology in the World
This gateway site contains a comprehensive table of contents with links to web sites, and a large collection of virus images, diagrams and tutorials for teaching. Maintained by Tulane University, U.S. http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/garryfavweb.html 

Ebola Virus Page  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The Ebola Virus Page provides links to information on new outbreaks of Ebola and general information on the disease. The site is maintained by the Microbiology Department, University of Capetown, South Africa. http://www.mcb.uct.ac.za/ebola/ebopage.htm
Global Polio Eradication Initiative   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This extensive site is supported by WHO, Rotary International, CDC and UNICEF. It features a wealth of general and epidemiological information on polio and its eradication. The site also contains press releases, fact sheets, individual country profiles, full text documents (some also in French), photographs, videos, and a meeting agenda. http://www.polioeradication.org
Hepatitis Information Network (HEPNET)
HEPNET contains a series of category links with updates on patient care issues, serology, new clinical papers and news releases plus links to other hepatitis sites. http://www.hepnet.com/
PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Viral Diseases (64000+)
This PubMed search will identify all viral 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. Essential 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%28%22virus%20diseases%22%5BTIAB%5D%20NOT%20Medline%5BSB%5D%29%20OR%20%22virus%20diseases%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20Viral%20Diseases%5BText%20Word%5D%29
SARS Reference
 This site is a medical textbook that provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of severe acute respiratory syndrome. It is edited by Bernd Sebastian Kamps and Christian Hoffmann and is updated every month. http://sarsreference.com/
Smallpox and its Eradication  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This is the full-text edition of the extensive monograph covering all aspects of smallpox, written by F. Fenner et al. and published by WHO in 1988. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/smallpox/9241561106.pdf
WHO: Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site is maintained by the WHO's Communicable Disease Surveillance & Response (CSR) department. Apart from general information (fact sheets, WHO manuals) and disease outbreak updates on Ebola, it contains a number of videos (RealPlayer), which are also presented as photo series. http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/
WHO: Influenza   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site is maintained by the WHO�s Communicable Disease Surveillance & Response (CSR) department. Its features include general information (fact sheets), disease outbreak updates on Influenza (including avian influenza), surveillance activities (global agenda), vaccine recommendations, a calendar of meetings and training activities and many full-text WHO documents. http://www.who.int/csr/disease/influenza/

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Updated: 29 January 2008