Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases

摘要

This curriculum supplement brings into the classroom new information about some of the exciting medical discoveries being made at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their effects on public health. This set is being distributed to teachers around the country free of charge by the NIH to improve science literacy and to foster student inter est in science. These tools may be copied for classroom use, but may not be sold. This set was developed at the request of NIH Director Harold Varmus, M.D., as part of a major new initiative to create a curriculum supplement series (for grades kindergarten through 12) that complies with the National Science Education Standards. This set is part of a continuing series being developed by the NIH Office of Science Education (OSE) in cooperation with NIH institutes with wide-ranging medical and scientific expertise. Three new supplements are planned per year. The curriculum supplements use up-to-date, accurate scientific data and case studies (not contrived).