Infectious Diseases

Disaster aftermath: The risk of epidemic diseases (CBC)

16 May 2008

Natural disaster can kill hundreds of thousands of people a year. But the aftermath can keep on claiming lives. Outbreaks of infectious diseases following hurricanes, cyclones, tsunamis and earthquakes are not uncommon in the developing world. They are rare in developed countries. Most post-disaster disease is spawned by poor sanitation, a lack of safe drinking water and contaminated food.

Statement of Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on HIV Vaccine ... (National Institutes of Health)

16 May 2008

Twenty-five years ago this month, researchers reported the isolation of the virus that causes AIDS. Since then, over 60 million people have been infected with HIV — an estimated 2.5 million in 2007 alone — numbers that remind us that the development of an HIV vaccine is an urgent humanitarian imperative.

Essay Examines Progress, Challenges In HIV/AIDS Research (Medical News Today)

16 May 2008

"25 Years of HIV," Nature: In the essay, Anthony Fauci, director of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, examines progress and challenges associated with HIV/AIDS research since the virus was isolated in 1983.