HEALTH AND DISEASE   General Resources Specific Diseases General Resources: Infectious Disease Online Reference Collections World Hunger and Malnutrition Birth Defects   General Resources Center for Disease Control Medical and Public Health Law Site The Internet Pathology Lab Emerging Infectious Diseases United Nations World Health Organization OneWorld Online Medicine and Global Survival Center for Disease Control SatelLife International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies World Health Reports U.N. Development Programme Center for Disease Control International Network for Interfaith Health Practices Disease Control Services Global Health Network ReliefWeb The Coming Plague discussion of antiobiotic resistant germs. The rest of the site advocates nutrition as a way to protect yourself. The Whole Brain Atlas This is a very interesting interactive site which teaches brain structure, funciton, effects of aging on the brain, and other topics. Return to top of page Health Guides/Reference Sources on the Web OnHealth.com JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association New England Journal of Medicine On-line Merck Publications Travel Health Online Has lots of information of specific diseases. Return to top of page  Birth Defects Association of Birth Defect Children, Inc. - Your Birth Defects Information Source BORN SOLDIERS : BIRTH DEFECTS FROM SERVICE IN THE GULF? Welcome to the March of Dimes Home Page The Murdoch Institute. The National Birth Defect Registry Genetic/Birth Defects Return to top of page World Hunger and Malnutrition PHYS Nutrition magazine Impact of the U.S Embargo on Health and Nutrition in Cuba AHEAD,Inc. The Hunger Project The World Bank Group Poverty and Malnutrition in Latin America Intervention Programs CNN - Floods bring disaster, malnutrition to China - Aug. 5,1996 SAMOA MALNUTRITION CASES ON THE RISE Targeting Malnutrition - Isotopic Tools for Evaluating Nutrition Child malnutrition in central/south Iraq North Korea Famine Crisis Korea - A Slow, Silent Famine Famine in North Korea North Korea: Silence and Starvation Famine in Southern Sudan Return to top of page General Resources: Infectious Disease Department of Human Services Infectious Disease News Infectious Disease WebLink Infectious Diseases Society of America International Society for Infectious Diseases National Center for Infectious Disease Outbreak FAS Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases Return to top of page Specific Diseases We've made no attempt to list all the diseases which threaten the world here, but here are some of the ones which appear most in the current news and some of the best links on the WWW. Start with Travel Health Online, as it has information on many of the dieseases below. AIDS-HIV The People's Plague: Home Page index The Body: An AIDS and HIV Information Resource HIV HIVpositive.com JAMA HIV/AIDS Information Center Harvard AIDS Institute AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition Discussion of "Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola" Alzheimers Alzheimer Page Bubonic Plague Plague Plague in California Wildlife and Man Cancer Cancer Front Page Heart Disease Women face heart disease epidemic Heart Attack Dengue Fever FAQ about Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Ebola Discussion of "Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola" Influenza Influenza: A to B Leprosy Leprosy Info Blessed Damien Society LEPRA (The British Leprosy Relief Association) Forum on Leporosy American Leprosy Missions Malaria Malaria Database National Malaria Research Programme in South Africa Malaria Frames Polio Ending polio - now or never? Polio and the era of fear Polio eradication national immunization days Polio Information Center Online (PICO) Jonas Salk, M.D. Biography Tropical Diseases (General) WHO Division of Control of Tropical Diseases Typhoid Typhoid Cholera (Vibrio cholerae) Cholera Yellow Fever Outbreak - Yellow Fever Return to the Global Issues Home Page Go to GC&SU Home Page