AIDS+and+the+Bubonic+Plague

Visit the databases and websites below to find information about AIDS and the Bubonic Plague. Having trouble finding the information you need? Please visit the IMC and speak with Mrs. O'Keefe, or send along an email message to joanneokeefe@salemk12.org requesting help - she will be happy to assist you!

This resource provides a wealth of information about HIV and AIDS, including information about diagnosis & tests, symptoms and types, treatment and care, living with & management of AIDS, and more. Be sure to view the slideshow [|"History of HIV and AIDS"].

This outstanding full-text reference collection includes the //**Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine**//, //**UXL Encyclopedia of Diseases and Disorders**//, //**UXL Encyclopedia of Science**//, //**American Men & Women of Science**//, and much more. (**Please note**: you will have to log in with a Password to use this resource. An overview of this collection, as well as each of the other databases and collections for which we have paid a user fee, is available in the IMC. This "**Full-Text Resources Available to the CMS Research Community**" guide also includes any passwords or other information you will need to log into a particular database.)

These terrific collections offer full-text articles from many magazines, including //**Current Health 2**//, //**Current Science**//, //**Discover**//, //**Popular Science**//, //**Scholastic SuperScience**//, //**Science News**//, //**Science News for Kids**//, //**Science World**//, and more. (**Please note**: You will need a User ID & Password to log in to these databases.)
 * [|Health Source: Consumer Edition] **, [|Middle Search Plus] and **[|MasterFILE Premier]**

[|AIDSinfo], from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Visit this site to learn about updated treatment guidelines, research studies on drugs, vaccines and new treatments, and other information. This resource is also available in Spanish, at [|infoSIDA]

[|AIDS, Sex and Teens: What's the Big Deal About HIV and AIDS?]

[|What is AIDS? - HIV Symptoms - AIDS Symptoms]

[|AIDS: from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] This detailed article includes information about the cause, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and history of the disease. Be sure to check out the **External Links**, listed at the end of the entry.

[|Black Death, from BBC: British History in-depth]

[|The Black Death: Ron Wild examines the worldwide devastation of populations caused by the bubonic plague]

[|Eyewitness to History: The Black Death, 1348]

[|History of Epidemics and Plagues]

[|The Black Death: Bubonic Plague - World History]

[|Bubonic Plague: from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]


 * From the Fiction Shelf**

//**The Heaven Shop**//, by [|Deborah Ellis](author of The Breadwinner) From //**Booklist**// Review: Grades 5-8. "Like Allan Stratton's //**Chanda's Secrets**//, but for a younger audience, this is a poignant story of a child caught up in the AIDS crisis in southern Africa...." read this review in full and others at [|Novelist Plus]

//**Chanda's Secrets**//, by [|Allan Stratton] From //**School Library Journal**// Review: *Starred Review" / Gr. 8 Up. "Chanda, 16, remembers the good times, when she lived with both parents on a cattle post in sub-Saharan Africa and even later on when her family moved to Bonang. Her family's troubles began after her father was killed in the diamond mines....Although Chanda lives in a world in which illness and death have become commonplace, it is not one in which AIDS can be mentioned...." read this review in full and others at [|Novelist Plus]

//**The Cure**//, by [|Sonia Levitin] A sixteen-year-old boy living in 2407 collides with the past when he finds himself in Strasbourg in 1348 confronting the anti-Semitism that sweeps through Europe during the Black Plague.

Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hameln of rats.
 * //Breath//**, by [|Donna Jo Napoli][[image:Breath.jpg width="146" height="210" align="right" link="http://www.donnajonapoli.com/biography.html"]]

//**King of Shadows**//, by [|Susan Cooper] From //**Library Journal**// Review: Grades 5-8. "Orphan Nat Field is chosen as part of an American theater group to perform at the new Globe Theatre in London. Nat's big role will be Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. However, his debut is pushed 400 years into the past when he is put to bed with a high fever and wakes up in Elizabethan England...." read this review in full and others at [|Novelist Plus].