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West
Nile Virus | ::
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Learn
more about West Nile virus
prevention. Here are three ways
you can reduce your risk:
• Avoid
Mosquito Bites
• Mosquito-Proof Your
Home
• Help Your Community
Avian
Influenza (Bird Flu) | ::
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These
webpages provide background
information about avian influenza,
including recent outbreaks,
the viruses, and the risk to
human health.
::
Avain
Flu Pandemic—Are We Prepared? by Dr. Feldman |  268kb
::
Pandemic
Influenza Fact Sheet | 116kb
::
Preparing
for Pandemic Influenza | 88kb
Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS) | ::
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Information
for specific groups and settings.
Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy
and
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob
Disease
(Mad Cow Disease) | ::
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Since
1996, evidence has been increasing
for a causal relationship between
ongoing outbreaks in Europe
of a disease in cattle, called
bovine spongiform encephalopathy
(BSE, or "mad
cow disease"),
and a disease in humans, called
variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
(vCJD). Both disorders are invariably
fatal brain diseases with unusually
long incubation periods measured
in years, and are caused by
an unconventional transmissible
agent.
On
December 23, 2003, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
announced a presumptive diagnosis
of bovine spongiform encephalopathy
(BSE, or "mad
cow" disease)
in an adult Holstein cow from
Washington State. The diagnosis
was confirmed by an international
reference laboratory in Weybridge,
England, on December 25. Preliminary
trace-back based on an ear-tag
identification number suggests
that the BSE-infected cow was
imported into the United States
from Canada in August 2001.
Monkey
Pox | ::
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Monkeypox
is a rare viral disease that
occurs mostly in central and
western Africa. It is called “monkeypox” because
it was first found in 1958 in
laboratory monkeys. Blood tests
of animals in Africa later found
that other types of animals
probably had monkeypox. Scientists
also recovered the virus that
causes monkeypox from an African
squirrel. These types of squirrels
might be the common host for
the disease. Rats, mice, and
rabbits can get monkeypox, too.
Monkeypox was reported in humans
for the first time in 1970. |
