Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Travelers' Health: Disease Directory
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information on over 40 diseases that travelers might need to be prepared for. Information includes description of disease, risk for travelers, preventive measures and treatment.
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: What's Your Beef?
Concerned about where your beef comes from? This article discusses concerns about safe, and healthy beef. International trade and the methods used in raising the staple are included in article.
US Geological Survey
National Wildlife Health Center: Chronic Wasting Disease
NWHC offers a brief history of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), followed by consideration of what the recent spread of the disease to relatively densely populated white-tailed deer in the US Midwest may mean.
US Food and Drug Administration
Fda/bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
Overview and background information on BSE in the U.K. Also includes steps taken in the U.S. to reduce risks.