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Chancroid from the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)... 

Isolation Control The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the World Health Organization, have produced a manual, Infection Control for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers in the African Health Care Setting. The manual is available at the CDC Web site http //www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/vhfmanual.htm and can be downloaded. Factors covered in this lengthy manual are include ... 

For more information about the prevalence of diabetes, see URLs by the International Diabetes Federation at www.idf.org the World Health Organization at www.who.int the Center for Disease Control at www.cdc. gov/diabetes and the American Diabetes Association at www.diabetes. org. 

The World Health Organization (WHO) has a network of 110 centers worldwide that monitor influenza activity and ensure virus isolates and information are sent to the WHO for strain identification and action. Each... 

Biosafety procedures When working with chemicals, suitable protective wear, such as lab coat and disposable gloves, are advised. When human serum specimens are involved, experiments must be conducted in accordance to the standard biosafety procedures as instructed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). 

Current predictions suggest that the twin epidemics of obesity and diabetes worldwide will result in an increase in CVD rates, which have sharply declined over the past 30 years, after the introduction of effective lipid-lowering and antihypertensive therapies. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that in 2002, deaths from CVD outnumbered deaths from the major communicable diseases (AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria) by 3 to 1 (2). By 2015, an estimated 20 million people will die annually from CVD. Therefore, with the advent of the new millennium, there is a sense of urgency to address the burden of chronic cardiometabolic diseases worldwide. The information on the prevalence and etiology of cardiometabolic diseases, which is cited in this section was obtained from the WHO and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) websites (2-6). 

The AACT was a charter member of the World Federation of Associations of Clinical Toxicology Centers and Poison Control Centers sponsored by the World Health Organization. The Academy supports the efforts of other toxicology organizations worldwide. 

Three years after smallpox eradication, in 1980, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that aU countries cease smallpox vaccination. In addition, WHO recommended that all laboratories destroy stocks of the virus or transfer them to either of two WHO reference laboratories, the Institute of Virus Preparations in Moscow, Russia, or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States. However, there may have been stocks of virus elsewhere (26,27). Although the WHO Advisory Committee on Variola Virus research recommend eradication of aU smallpox stocks by June 30,2002, the WHO Health Assembly has delayed this each year because of concerns that stocks of virus are needed for continued study (28). 

Sources Twenty-two Internet sites containing health and medical information. Some of these sites are American College of Physicians Online, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, New England Journal of Medicine, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Journal of the American Medical Association, PubMed, Merck, Mayo Clinic, Food and Drug Administration, World Health Organization, WebMD, and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 

The World Health Organization (WHO) has a network of 110 centers worldwide that monitor influenza activity and ensure virus isolates and information are sent to WHO for strain identification and action. Each February (for the Northern Hemisphere winter) and September (for the Southern hemisphere winter) the WHO provides advanced recommendations for the composition of the influenza vaccine to be manufactured. For the November 2002 - April 2003 season, the February 2002 recommendation was ... 

Worldwide, the prevalence of diabetes is increasing, with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention referring to the condition as. . the epidemic of our times . According to the World Health Organization, the present number of diabetics worldwide is 135 million, and this is expected to increase to 300 million by 2025. 

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