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News Sources
- Africa CDCAfrica CDC strengthens the capacity and capability of Africa’s public health institutions as well as partnerships to detect and respond quickly and effectively to disease threats and outbreaks, based on data-driven interventions and programmes.
- CDC Disease DirectoryInformation about specific diseases in specific regions.
- Measles outbreak in Congo-Kinshasa (2019)Search for "measles congo" in PressReader for the latest news coverage of the measles outbreak in Congo.
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1941 - 1996 This link opens in a new windowNews for such epidemics as cholera in Kenya, 1974; typhus in North Africa, 1942; Small pox in Ethiopia, 1961; Meningitis in Niger, 1961; yellow fever, whooping cough and leukemia in Chad in 1987; measles in Liberia, 1987; meningitis in Eritrea, 1988; etc.
Use these brief reports to check what the local news outlets reported around those dates. - Newspaper Source This link opens in a new windowThis database provides selected full text coverage for 245 newspapers, newswires and other sources. This collection includes cover-to-cover full text for and selected full text from hundreds of regional newspapers. International newspaper coverage includes cover-to-cover full text for The Times (London), The Toronto Star, The Australian, and more. Newswire coverage includes AP Online (Associated Press), Asia Pulse, Canadian Press Wire, World Stream Newswires and more.
Posters
The library has many posters, with some that are digitized. Search the catalog for the full array.
- Digitized AIDS posters from different countries in Africa in a variety of languages. Search for keyword "AIDS".
- Malaria posters
Photographs
Vernon McKay Photographs - photos of people and events involving several diseases.
A photograph from Winterton Collection of East African Photographs showing a victim of smallpox epidemic in Kenya of 1899-1900. See also Smallpox in Kenya, 1880–1920 article (requires login); In the heart of savagedom; reminiscences of life and adventure during a quarter of a century of pioneering missionary labours in the wilds of east Equatorial Africa a novel .
Photographs of sleeping sickness patients from the Winterton Collection of East African Photographs. Search for "sleeping sickness"
Read Sleeping Sickness Epidemics and Colonial Responses in East and Central Africa, 1900–1940 article.
Community Initiatives
- Dikembe Mutombo Ebola PSACongolese Dikembe Mutombo (and retired sports star and philanthropist), worked with CDC to film a public service announcement (PSA) for Ebola to help communicate with the Congolese people.