Online infectious diseases (ID) journals are an increasingly common Web phenomenon. We performed a study of practices in this evolving area that make these sites more usable and useful from the perspective of ID physicians. The Web sites of 18 journals pertaining to general ID and infection control and hospital epidemiology were evaluated for a set of 24 Web interface characteristics and online...

The large amount of disease acquired by travellers demonstrates that at present travel is not safe. Study of this disease, however, indicates that travel could be made safe by the application of relatively simple precautions. Groups of travellers particularly liable to develop illness include those on short-term business and holiday trips to the Tropics. Young persons undertaking low cost overl...

In this country cerebrospinal meningitis (fever) is an endemic disease found mainly in children and adolescents; local outbreaks occur, but they are rare and usually involve few individuals. The disease has, however, a marked predilection for war-time conditions; relatively extensive outbreaks occurred during the 1914-18 war, and again to an even greater extent during the 1939-45 war. These out...