Communicable Disease Web Links

• General info / Oregon Health Services links
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / U.S. links
• Travelers' info / WHO and global links

General info / Oregon Health Services

• OHS gateway to other state and national health agencies and organizations
  
  
• Communicable disease press releases
• CD Summary, the bi-weekly epidemiology newsletter
• Oregon communicable disease statistics
  
  
• Foodborne disease information
• Sanitation/disinfection basics (PDF 113K)
• Prevention of communicable disease in schools: Oregon Dept. of Education guidelines (PDF 34pp)
  
  
• Compendium of measures to prevent disease and injury associated with animals in public settings, 2004 (PDF 18pp)
• Reducing the risk for transmission of enteric pathogens at venues where the public has contact with farm animals (PDF 54K)
• Manual for the surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases 3rd Edition, CDC, 2002

CDC / United States

• Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
  • Información en español por los Centros Para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades
  • Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
  • National Center for Infectious Diseases: Traveler's Health
  • National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
  
  
• HHS's global health web site: information on the department's work on health issues plus worldwide health statistics, reports and publications

World Health Organization (WHO) / International links

• WHO communicable disease surveillance and response
  
• WHO international travel and health
  
• Health Canada traveler's medicine