Other Pathogens of Interest
Overview; This section provides information about other diseases that
are periodically in the news. This section is provided
to educate you about these diseases.
Goals To enhance your knowledge about other important diseases
Readings and Links.
West
Nile
West Nile Overview
Prion Related Diseases (Transmissible
spongiform encephalopathies (TSE)
Prion-Related
Diseases
Overview
Overview from CDC
Specific Types
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
(BSE or Mad Cow) Information from CDC
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or Mad Cow) Information from USDA
Scrapie (sheep)
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (humans)
Chronic Wasting Disease (deer and elk)
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Information in Idaho
Detecting Prion Infections
Staphylococcus
Understanding Antimicrobial Resistance
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
MRSA and Locker rooms
Emerging Staph Strains Found to be Increasingly Deadly and Deceptive
(article)
Norwalk Virus
http://www.about-norwalk.com/
http://www.metrokc.gov/health/providers/epidemiology/health-alert-070103.pdf
http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/Topics/norovirus.htm
Legionellosis
(Legionnaires' Disease (LD) and Pontiac
Fever)
Overview
Tasks: Review these sites
There is no written requirement for this topic
