World Health Organization
World Health Organization: Malaria
An extensive overview of the Plasmodium parasite that cause malaria. Topics include distribution, causative agent, transmission and symptoms.
World Health Organization
World Health Organization: Can Tiny Bacteria Help Stop the Spread of Disease?
An innovative initiative is taking place in Brazil where researchers are employing mosquitos to help prevent the spread of deadly mosquito-spread diseases. Understand the study taking place.
PBS
Pbs Newshour: Week of 6 30 14: West African Ebola Outbreak Deadliest on Record
Learn about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and the work that the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders are doing in an attempt to curb infections.
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World Health Organization: Emergencies Preparedness, Response
This reference source provides directions for emergency preparedness and how to respond to emergencies.
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World Health Organization: Ghana
Learn about core health indicators in Ghana in this World Health Organization country profile, which includes demographic and health information both historic and current.
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World Health Organization: Ethiopia
Learn about health in Ethiopia via the World Health Organization's profile page on the country, which includes demographic information about core health indicators as well as general information.
World Health Organization
World Health Organization: Ethiopia
Learn about health in Ethiopia via the World Health Organization's profile page on the country, which includes demographic information about core health indicators as well as general information.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Stalking Sars: The Cdc at Work
This site goes through the who, what, where, and when of the CDC's investigation of the SARS virus. Includes an interactive map and timeline of the outbreak.
World Health Organization
World Health Organization: Tanzania
Learn about core health indicators in Tanzania in this country profile, which includes demographic and current health information.
Other
Operation Blessing Relief and Development Corporation
International relief and development organization that strives to combat hunger, deprivation and physical affliction for those in need.
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Jewish American Hall of Fame: Jonas Salk (1914 1995)
A short biography of Jonas Salk, one of the men to invent a polio vaccine.
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International Relief Teams
This international relief organization is "dedicated to organizing volunteer teams to provide medical and non-medical assistance to the victims of disaster and profound poverty worldwide".
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Addressing Health Mysteries
Describe the networks within the health care systems internationally, explore the impact of the SARS epidemic on world health and examine the effectiveness of the World Health Organization in communicable disease surveillance and response.
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World Health Organization: Cholera
A fact sheet describing the diarrhoeal disease, cholera. Learn about the causes, symptoms, and how the disease is treated.
World Health Organization
World Health Organization: Homepage
The World Health Organization promotes physical, social, and mental well being all over the world. This site links you to all types of information and is very resourceful on a large variety of subjects.
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World Health Organization: Desalination Guidelines Development for Drinking Water
World Health Organizational site provides a brief introduction into the desalination guidelines development for drinking water. Contains links to water sanitation and health as well as drinking water.
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World Health Organization: Ebola
The World Health Organization provides a brief description of the Ebola virus.
BBC
Bbc Newsround: Polio Disease Outbreak in Syria
Article reports on the confirmation from the World Health Organization of a polio outbreak in Syria.
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World Health Organization: Meningitis
Read an overview of the communicable illness meningitis. Includes a fact sheet on types of meningitis, methods of transmission and ways in which the disease is treated.