Select Sites on Diseases
- Diseases from the WHOHere you will find disease information including factsheets, travel alerts, and scientific reports.
- Centers for Disease ControlInformation about a variety of diseases.
- CDC Disease DirectoryDiseases which impact travel outside the US.
- CDC Travel NoticesThe CDC provides up-to-date travel alerts about disease hot spots and outbreaks, searchable by both country and disease.
- US State DepartmentYou can search by country. From each country's entry, you can learn about health risks and dangers.
- CIA Worldfactbook Global DiseasesThe CIA presents data by country.
Global Diseases News & Databases
- Power Library Consumer Health CompleteFrom the Power Library menu->Health/Sciences->Consumer Health Complete. Here you can search for fact sheets, reports, and recent news articles from magazines. From school only.
- SIRSID&PW needed from home. Sort by date for the most recent articles on epidemics in the news.
- Opposing ViewpointsID&PW needed from home. Search by disease. News stories, editorials, statistics and web pages. You may discover a vetted website devoted to the disease you are researching, such as the Zika Foundation.
