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United
States - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Guidelines and recommendations, case
counts, news and updates, fact sheets, international information, images, and
frequently asked questions.
Massachusetts
- Department of Public Health
Clinical alerts for Massachusetts,
case definition, statistics, guidelines, fact sheets, press releases, and related
links.
MEDLINEplus
News, general/overviews, diagnosis/systems,
pictures/diagrams, prevention/screening, specific conditions/aspects, genetics,
directories, law, policy, and organizations.
CIDRAP
(Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy) - University of Minnesota
News, selected readings, guidelines,
and related links.
CNN.com
- Special Report
Latest reports, video archives,
resources, features, and links.
New
England Journal of Medicine
Collection of articles and
updates.
New
York Times: Science Special
Collection of articles.
ProMED-mail
International Society for Infectious Diseases global electronic
reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases & toxins,open
to all sources.
Frequently
Asked Questions (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
General information - what
is it, symptoms, how long would it take to become sick, cause of SARS,
the outbreak, travel and quarantine. Prevention and control (CDC guidelines)
- personal, household, health care setting, travel and quarantine.
Expanded
Academic ASAP
Articles from more than
1,500 scholarly journals and general interest magazines in the humanities,
social sciences and general sciences, many in full text.
Health
Reference Center Academic
Citations, some full text
journal articles and health-related pamphlets, and entries from selected
reference publications relating to health and allied health.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic
Full text articles from
tens of thousands of periodicals, including business and medical periodicals;
international, national and college newspapers, etc.
Medline
or PubMed
(free to all)
Citations and abstracts for medical
journal articles and reports from the National Library of Medicine's comprehensive
database. PubMed, which is free, contains even more content than Medline.
NewsBank
Complete full-text content of local
and regional news in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Springfield
Republican, and Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
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