Infectious Disease Project – web resources!

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Infectious Disease Project – web resources!

May 2, 2010 at 5:04 pm · Filed under Biology (purple), Biology (red)

You assignment is to surf the Internet and find good sources of information about infectious diseases for your upcoming project. As you surf, think about what disease you would like to research. You don’t have to decide yet but this will help you get started in the process. Remember to always verify that your web sources are legitimate.

Assignment: Find one good source, paste it into a comment, and tell why you think it is a good site.

Use these sites to help you get started…
http://www.who.int/topics/infectious_diseases/factsheets/en/index.html http://www.medicinenet.com/infectious_disease/focus.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/ncpdcid/index.html
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/list-of-common-infectious-diseases.html
http://health.nih.gov/topic/InfectiousDiseasesGeneral
http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/topics/emerging/list.htm
http://www.hpa.org.uk/webw/HPAweb&Page&HPAwebAutoListName/Page/1153846673347?p=1153846673347
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/infectiousdiseases.html
http://www.webmd.com/news/20080220/new-infectious-diseases-on-the-rise

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Josiah Henderson wrote @ May 3, 2010 at 11:40 am

http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/uvahealth/adult_infectious/common.cfm

This site is good becasue it has a list of the most common infectous diseases. If you click on one, it tells you the simptoms, causes, and cures of the disease and talks a little bit about each one.

Jonas Damion wrote @ May 3, 2010 at 4:44 pm

http://www.who.int/topics/infectious_diseases/factsheets/en/index.html

I like this website because it lists a ton of infectious diseases, the symptoms of each one, their backgrounds, how you can get them, how to avoid getting them, and if you’re unfortunate, how to treat one.

Jillian wrote @ May 3, 2010 at 6:52 pm

http://emedicine.medscape.com/infectious_diseases
^This is a good website because it has a very long list of infectious diseases. For each disease it gives you a very detailed backround, why it is caused, the mortality rate, and the frequency.

Maria M wrote @ May 3, 2010 at 7:38 pm

http://www.dhpe.org/pubs_infectious.asp
i thought this was a good website because it gave good explanations about different iffectious diseases and what they were.

Michael wrote @ May 3, 2010 at 8:22 pm

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/infectiousdiseases.html
I think this is a good site because it says what the main types of diseases are. It also shows research and statistics on infectious Diseases.

Owen wrote @ May 3, 2010 at 8:32 pm

http://www.webmd.com/news/20080220/new-infectious-diseases-on-the-rise

I liked this site because it had alot of stats about spreading of disease and it showed lots of disease hotspot all over the world.

Max Maurer wrote @ May 3, 2010 at 8:34 pm

http://www.fas.org/promed/about/table2.html
Here is a website about pathogenic microbes that cause infectious disease. This website includes the names of each microorganism, the type of disease it is(virus, bacteria, or parasite), the disease it causes, and what year it was discovered

Noah wrote @ May 4, 2010 at 7:33 am

I like this website because it alphabetize all the types of infectious disease so you could pick one and learn about its cause, treatments ect….

Weston Nolan wrote @ May 4, 2010 at 10:16 am

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/index.html

I like this website because it shows you all about the disease and how it is spread and what you can do to stop it. Also it shows you things like the history of the disease and many useful facts about it to also keep away from it.

natesmith45 wrote @ May 4, 2010 at 10:24 am

The links are looking good so far!
-Mr. Smith

JD Dyke wrote @ May 4, 2010 at 10:32 am

What i like about website is that it lists all of the diseases and re emerging diseases.

Bryce Tetreault wrote @ May 4, 2010 at 10:34 am

I like this website because it has a list of all the infecitous diseases and are categorized by what type of disease they are (bacteria, virus, fungi). This site would make it very easy to pick a disease for a project.

Joseph Dancoes wrote @ May 4, 2010 at 6:32 pm

The Mayo Clinic has a good site because you can look up a disease and find its symptoms, cause, treatment, and prevention.

wes bright wrote @ May 4, 2010 at 6:57 pm

http://www.symptoms101.com/med/archives//infectious_disease/
This website is good because it has what the disease is and the symptoms of the disease.

Lisette wrote @ May 4, 2010 at 7:26 pm

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/infectiousdiseases.html

This is a good website, because they get their information from news articles, and they talk about certin conditions.

Michaela Weeks wrote @ May 4, 2010 at 7:59 pm

I thought that this was a good site because it included a lot of differend diseases. Also, I liked the fact that the website gave a backround disscription of the disease.

Alex Kral wrote @ May 5, 2010 at 9:02 pm

I thought this was a good web site because it gave a goo explanation of what and infectious disease was and how you can acquire one.

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