Communicable Diseases
SEARCH TIP: Besides "communicable diseases" you may also want to use the term "infectious diseases" or the name of a specific disease when searching for books or online information.
Web Links
Medline Plus
An encyclopedia of diseases from the National Library of Medicine.
Mayo Clinic
Encyclopedia of diseases and conditions from the Mayo Clinic.
Teen Health and Wellness
Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers, the inaugural database from Rosen Publishing Online, provides students with comprehensive curricular support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more. To find communicable diseases, click on "Diseases, Infections, and Conditions" in the left toolbar. Then, scroll down to "Infections and Viruses" for specific topics. To access this database from home, you have to use the special "Uni High only" login name and password you were given in class.
Librarians' Index to the Internet
Click on "Diseases & Conditions" under "Health," then click on "Infectious Diseases" in the left toolbar to get to a directory of evaluated and described Web sites on specific infectious diseases. Librarians' Index is a high-quality web sites chosen by public librarians and organized into categories. You can also search the main page (Lii.org) on a general topic like communicable diseases, or on a specific disease.
Epidemic! The World of Infectious Diseases
This is an archived exhibition from the American Museum of Natural History. It is also the title of a book in the Uni High collection (call number 614.4 Ep438 ).
Books
General call numbers: 614s, 616s, some 615s (located in the nonfiction section of the library!)
Some reference books:
Human Diseases and Conditions (three vols. R Q.616.003 H88)
Sick!: Diseases and Disorders, Injuries and Infections (four vols. R 616.003 Si126)
Human Diseases and Conditions (Supp.2: Infectious Diseases R 616.9 H88)
The Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases (R 616.903 T847e 2003)
Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases (R 616.903 T847e)