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Core Concepts in Health Brief, 9/e

Paul M. Insel, Stanford University, School of Medicine
Walton T. Roth, Stanford University, School of Medicine

Immunity and Infection

Vital Statistics

Table 13-1 (See p. 299 in your text.)
Top Infectious Diseases Worldwide

The World Health Organization's annual http://www.who.int/whr World Health Report tracks deaths from many causes, including infectious diseases.

For information from the CDC, visit the Web sites for the http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/osr/index.htm National Center For Infectious Diseases' Surveillance Resources, the http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/distrnds.html Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Disease Trends, and/or the http://www.cdc.gov/nchs National Center for Health Statistics.

Figure 13-4 (See p. 310 in your text.)
Routes of HIV transmission among adults

Information on the transmission of HIV/AIDS in the United States is available from regularly updated CDC HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report. Statistics on the worldwide epidemic are available from UNAIDS.

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