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TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL BOARD .............................................................................. iii COLLABORATORS AND OTHER PRIMARY REVIEWERS ................. v FOREWORD: GEORGES C. BENJAMIN, MD, FACP ........................... xviii FOREWORD: LEE JONG-WOOK .......................................................... xx PREFACE ................................................................................................. xxi USER’S GUIDE TO CCDM18 ................................................................ xxiii REPORTING OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES ............................... xxvi RESPONSE TO AN OUTBREAK REPORT ....................................... xxviii DELIBERATE USE OF BIOLOGICAL AGENTS TO CAUSE HARM AGENTS .......................................................................................... xxxii ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME ............................... 1 ACTINOMYCOSIS ................................................................................. 10 AMOEBIASIS ........................................................................................... 12 ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS ...................................................................... 16 ABDOMINAL ...................................................................................... 18 INTESTINAL ....................................................................................... 18 ANISAKIASIS .......................................................................................... 19 ANTHRAX .............................................................................................. 21 ARENAVIRAL HEMORRHAGIC FEVERS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE ..................................................................................... 27 ARTHROPOD-BORNE VIRAL DISEASES .............................................. 30 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................... 30 TABLE: DISEASES IN HUMANS CAUSED BY ARTHROPODBORNE VIRUSES ........................................................................ 31 ARTHROPOD-BORNE VIRAL ARTHRITIS AND RASH ...................... 36 ARTHROPOD-BORNE VIRAL ENCEPHALITIDES ............................... 39 I. MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRAL ENCEPHALITIDES ........................ 39 II. TICK-BORNE VIRAL ENCEPHALITIDES ................................... 43 ARTHROPOD-BORNE VIRAL FEVERS ................................................. 46 I. MOSQUITO-BORNE AND CULICOIDES-BORNE VIRAL FEVERS ..................................................................................... 46 I.A. VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS DISEASE ............................................................................ 46 I.B. OTHER MOSQUITO-BORNE AND CULICOIDES-BORNE FEVERS ............................................................................. 48 II. TICK-BORNE VIRAL FEVERS ..................................................... 51 III. PHLEBOTOMINE-BORNE VIRAL FEVERS ................................. 52 ARTHROPOD-BORNE VIRAL HEMORRHAGIC FEVERS .................. 55 I. MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASES ................................................. 55 II. TICK-BORNE DISEASES ..........................................