• Emerging Infectious Diseases
This Web site is primarily devoted to recent and emerging Zoonotic diseases, that is diseases that may be transmitted between animals and humans. According to the Executive Director of the Consortium for Conservation Medicine, there are approximately 1,400 known microbes that cause illness in humans, and 61 percent can be linked to animals.

• Diseases reportable by law in Michigan - a quick reference guide 
A Guide for Physicians, Health Care Providers and Laboratories

• 8th Annual Michigan Communicable Disease Conference 
Providing Michigan's public health community with the latest knowledge on communicable disease diagnosis, reporting, epidemiology, and lab test interpretation. May, 2008.

• Compendium of Veterinary Standard Precautions 
Infection control measures vary from practice to practice and are often insufficient to prevent zoonotic disease transmission. The Veterinary Standard Precautions (VSP) in this compendium are designed to prevent transmission of zoonotic pathogens from animal patients to veterinary personnel in private practice.

• Additional Counties with Feral Swine

• Feral Swine in the U.S. 
brochure

• Michigan Counties that Allow the Shooting of Feral Swine
Map of counties where at least one animal has been reported

• Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite! 
MDCH Bedbugs Factsheet

• EEE in MI deer - map 

• EEE in Michigan Horses

• DNR Officials Confirm Two Cases of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) in Kent County Deer
DNR press release: Sept. 22, 2005

• EEE: Addressing hunters' concerns 
Information from MDNR Wildlife Bureau

• DNR Officials confirm three additional cases of EEE
DNR Press Release Oct. 5, 2005

• Michigan Mosquito Manual 
Including a history of EEE in Michigan.

• Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE)
Centers for Disease Control Fact Sheet

• EEE Surveillance Maps

• NWHC-Eastern Equine Encephalitis 
National Wildlife Health Center-Field Manual of Wildlife Diseases- General Field Procedures and Diseases of Birds: EEE facts sheet for birds/game birds(needs Adobe Acrobat, 700 KB)

• EEE in a Georgia Free-ranging White-tailed Deer 

• Reconstruction of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Virus
CDC researchers and their colleagues have successfully reconstructed the influenza virus that caused the 1918-19 flu pandemic, which killed as many as 50 million people worldwide.

• BSE

• BSE Federal Response Plan 

• Exotic Newcastle Disease

• FDA BSE Emergency Response Plan Summary

• Foot and Mouth Disease

• Giant African Land Snails

• Japanese Encephalitis

• Leptospirosis

• Monkeypox

• Q fever

• Rinderpest

• SARS - MI Dept Community Health info

• SARS - WHO

• Swine vesicular disease

• Canine brucellosis information sheet 

• 2006 Psittacosis Compendium 

• Anthrax is most common in agricultural regions

• Minimizing Risk for Human LCMV Infection Associated with Rodents

• Cover Letter for 2006 Psittacosis Compendium 

• Disease Risks Associated with Feral Swine 

• Drug-resistant Salmonella newport infections linked with eating ground beef

• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - LCMV 

• Health Order Finding IMMINENT DANGER To the Public Health 

• Prairie dogs and the plague

• MDCH Issues Order Stopping Sale of Rodents 

• Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS)