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American Red Cross

• Heat Waves

How to keep your family safe in extreme heat conditions. (http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/0,1082,0_586_,00.html)

CDC

• Lyme Disease Home Page

This site offers useful information on Lyme Disease including identification of ticks, high risk areas, prevention and treatment. (http://cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/index.htm)

• West Nile Virus:  What You Need to Know

This CDC fact sheet provides useful information on West Nile virus including symptoms, how it spreads, and treatment. (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/wnv_factsheet.htm)

• What Everyone Should Know About SARS

Information about SARS, questions, and answers, prevention and quarantine to prevent spread of disease. (http://www.cdc.goc/ncidod/sars/basics.htm)

New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services

• Communicable Disease Service

Alphabetical listings of links to communicable diseases. (http://www.state.nj.us/health/cd)

Missouri State Health

• Prevention and Heat-Related Illness

Offers guide to heat strokes and other heat-illnesses. ((http://www.health.state.mo.us/ColdandHeat/HEATILL.html)