What You Need To Know About Infectious Disease
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About a quarter of deaths worldwide–many of them children–are caused by infectious organisms. The World Health Organization reports that new infectious diseases are continuing to emerge and familiar ones are appearing in new locations around the globe. What You Need to Know About Infectious Disease provides an overview of infectious disease, drawing on reports of the Institute of Medicine.
Read the report: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/13006/what-you-need-to-know-about-infectious-disease
Thank you to the Marian Koshland Science Museum
http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/
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This video takes a look at how infectious diseases are transmitted and a look at the different tools we have to control them. We take a quick look at how we can use behavior change, vaccines, surveillance, environmental changes, infection control and medication to control the spread of infectious diseases
This video was created by Ranil Appuhamy
Voiceover – James Clark
For more information about infectious diseases, have a look at these websites:
http://www.who.int/topics/infectious_diseases/en/
https://www.cdc.gov/diseasesconditions/
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/
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