• 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.

• Reportable Diseases in Michigan: 2012 - quick reference guide 
A Guide for Physicians, Health Care Providers and Laboratories

• Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite!
Resources for identifying and preventing bed bug infestations, and how to choose the right pest control options

• Leptospirosis in Dogs 
A bacterial disease in dogs that may affect humans

• Leptospirosis in Michigan 
Preliminary Investigation

• Map of Counties in Michigan with Leptospirosis 
2011 Diagnosed Cases

• EHD in Michigan Deer
Link to DNR Disease Manual on Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease

• Wanted Dead - Feral Swine Poster 
Feral swine carry diseases that affect humans and livestock

• Canine Brucellosis Flyer
An concern in Michigan puppies

• Compendium of Measures to Prevent Disease Associated with Animals in Public Settings, 2009 

• Information about Type E Botulism in Michigan's Wildlife
Documents about collection and/or disposal of dead birds, information for property owners, and waterfowl hunting.

• 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.

• Feral Swine in the U.S. 
brochure

• EEE in Michigan Horses

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

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

• 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 

• Canine brucellosis information sheet 

• 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

• 2010 Psittacosis Compendium 

• Anthrax is most common in agricultural regions

• Canine Brucellosis Flyer

• Disease Risks Associated with Feral Swine 

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

• Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS)

• Health Order Finding IMMINENT DANGER To the Public Health 

• MDCH Issues Order Stopping Sale of Rodents 

• Minimizing Risk for Human LCMV Infection Associated with Rodents

• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - LCMV 

• Prairie dogs and the plague