COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 Information Resources

Contains official government recommendations for international travel; provides disease risk maps and country-specific health warnings including immunization suggestions.

Covers principles of communicable disease identification and control, protection, epidemiology, major syndromes and pandemic planning.

Summarizes presentations from the 2019 workshop of the National Academies. Discussions included colliding epidemics, research on associations between infectious and noncommunicable diseases. Also examined convergence and the integration of health care delivery models.

Contains information on emerging and reemerging bacterial, viral, parasitic and fungal infectious diseases in the United States and globally.

Covers Background of the Field; Defining the Problem; Infrastructure; Solving Problems; and Practical Applications.

Summarizes presentations from 2018 workshops regarding lessons from influenza pandemics and other major outbreaks, including ensuring countries are ready for future pandemics.

Offers a global perspective on hand hygiene in developed and developing countries. Gives guidance at the individual and organizational levels for national and worldwide hygiene campaigns.

Covers infectious disease outbreaks framed in their geographic setting, such as H7N9 bird flu influenza, H1N1, Ebola and Zika. Guides health care workers towards diagnosis based on symptoms and travel history.

Assesses the value of clinical trials held during the 2014/2015 Ebola epidemic and recommends how trials could be improved during future international infectious disease events.

Examines elastomeric use on a routine basis and during an influenza pandemic or other large aerosol-transmissible outbreak, when demand for respiratory protective devices by health care personnel may be larger than supplies; also addresses issues regarding emergency stockpile management.