THE BLACK DEATH and the MIDDLE AGES
The Middle Ages A
compendium of information and links to information about the medieval
period with a special section on the Black Death.
Decameron
Web: The Plague From an web site about late medieval life
and society based on Boccaccio's Decameron, an introduction to the plague drawn from medieval sources.
NetSERF
Science & Technology: Medicine From a gateway to everything
medieval, the section on medicine and health.
PLAGUE and INFECTIOUS DISEASE
CDC Plague
Information Everything you might want to know about the plague
including diagnosis, control, surveillance, and more from the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
History of
Epidemics and Plagues An brief introduction to infectious diseases
throughout history from a University of Hartford professor.
Epidemic:
The World of Infectious Disease Based on an exhibition at
the American Museum of Natural History, learn how ecology, evolution, and culture
produce conditions in which disease-causing microbes can thrive.
National Center for Infectious
Diseases This division of the CDC specializes in infectious
disease and provides links for learning more about the many types
of such diseases.
WHO Epidemic and Pandemic
Alert & Response The World Health Organization has a special
division concerned with epidemic and pandemic disease on an international
basis.
CDC Anthrax
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention tracks many
agents of infectious disease including anthrax and provides information
on exposure, treatment, and control.
HIV InSite Developed
by the University of California San Francisco, HIV InSite is a
gateway to in-depth information about HIV/AIDS including medical
research, prevention, statistics, and social & policy issues.
PandemicFlu.gov One-stop
access to U.S. Government avian(bird) and pandemic flu information
from the Department of Health and Human Services
BIOTERRORISM
Plague
as a Biological Weapon This article from the journal of the
American Medical Association, JAMA, outlines how health care professionals
should respond in the event of the use of plague as a biological
weapon. (NOTE: access is restricted to those with
a UT Net ID and password)
CDC Emergency Preparedness and
Response The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
is concerned with all threats to public health, including bioterrorism.
Center for Biosecurity
Affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh, the Center works
to affect policy and practice in ways that lessen the illness,
death, and disruption that would follow large-scale epidemics,
whether they occur naturally or result from the use of a biological
weapon. Has lots of links to news, articles, and other sites.
Further
Threat of Terror: Bioterrorism The Cato Institute, a Washington
D.C.think-tank, has produced several articles and studies as well
as media briefings and forums on bioterrorism. Videos and the
full-text of articles are available here.
Center
for Infectious Disease Research and Policy/CIDRAP The priority programs of CIDRAP at the University of
Minnesota include infectious disease response, agricultural and
food biosecurity, and food safety. Explore their links to information
in all these areas.
