Emergency Management Information Resources

New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
Home page includes “In Our Spotlight” box listing current topics. The site also provides listings of state “programs & services.” For information on communicable diseases, claick that heading then click “environmental health,” then click “communicable diseases” for related fact sheets. You may need an “Acrobat Reader” program to access info on this site.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Contains up-to-date information about nearly a hundred different diseases, includes fact sheets and images of infectious agents and links to other sources.

National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
Provides general information on infectious diseases and fact sheets, includes links to other sources.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Provides general information on food safety, info about National Food Safety Initiative, links to other sites.

Food Safety Fight BAC! Campaign
The web site of the Partnership for Food Safety Education, a coalition of industry government and consumer groups. It provides information geared to help reduce the incidence of food-borne illness, includes general information, educational artwork, a chart of least wanted food-born pathogens, prevention tips, and many links to other sites.

Association of State and Territorial Directors of Health Promotion and Public Health Education
Provides fact sheets on numerous infectious diseases, as well as sample press releases and sample emergency management information.