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Norovirus
Learn about norovirus illness, its symptoms, how it spreads, and ways to help prevent it. Check out sections targeted for food handlers, healthcare providers, public health professionals, and laboratorians. Keep up-to-date on surveillance trends and outbreaks of norovirus illness. Access scientific articles, guidelines, factsheets, podcasts, and other educational resources.
http://www.cdc.gov/norovirus/

Causes of Foodborne Illness
A FDA fact sheet about parasites and foodborne illness, specificially,Giardia duodenalis or intestinalis, Cryptosporidium parvum, Cyclospora cayetanensis, Toxoplasma gondii, Trichinella spiralis, and Taenia saginata/Taenia solium (Tapeworms).
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/factsheets/parasites_and_foodborne_illness/index.asp

An online community of naturalists who enjoy learning about and sharing their observations of insects, spiders, and other related creatures. BugGuide.net provides identification, images and information for insects, spiders and their kin found in the U.S. and Canada.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/15740

CDC offers an alphabetical list of disease-specific help. 
http://www.cdc.gov/az/

Lab Tests Online, is a public resource on clinical lab testing from the laboratory professionals who do the testing.  It is peer-reviewed, non-commercial, and patient-centered site. It can serve as a quick reference tool or as a resource for keeping up with advances in laboratory science.
http://labtestsonline.org/map/aindex

Dr. Paul Schreckenberger's 12 Disc Procedure for Beta-Lactamase Resistance in Gram Negative Bacilli have been posted.

Packing and Shipping Infectious Substances
ASM's Sentinel Laboratory Guidelines for Suspected Agents of Bioterrorism and Emerging Infectious Diseases for Packing and Shipping Infectious Substances were revised July 15, 2011 by author Larry Gray, Ph.D., D(ABMM). The 2011 International Air Transport Association (IATA) revisions are shown in RED and the author’s revisions and clarifications are in BLUE.  ASM Sentinel Laboratory Guidelines offer clinical microbiology laboratories standardized, practical methods to aid microbiologists in ruling out critical agents that may be used in a bioterrorist event or associated with an emerging infectious disease.

Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR) Manual
A global reference for shipping dangerous goods by air and the only reference recognized by the world's airlines.
http://www.iata.org/publications/dgr/Pages/manuals.aspx

Biosecurity, Biosafety, Biocontainment, and Biorisk Management: get to know the S3.

Clinical Laboratory Bioterrorism Readiness Plan
ASM's Sentinel Laboratory Guidelines for Suspected Agents of Bioterrorism, the Clinical Laboratory Bioterrorism Readiness Plan, provides a model for laboratories to use for developing a bioterrorism (BT) preparedness plan. The components of this template can be used to develop a readiness plan to meet the needs of the institution.

CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response Website
This is CDC's primary source of information and resources for preparing for and responding to public health emergencies.
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/