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<H1>Accessing ProMED archives</H1>

<p>To search the ProMED database, send a message to
getweb@usa.healthnet.org.  The body of the message should contain the
line:

<p><code>SEARCH PROMED keyword1 keyword2 ...</code>

<p>Where "keyword1 keyword2 ..." is a list of one or more keywords
which you expect the documents you're searching for to contain.

<p>For example, to search for articles on yellow fever in ghana,
send a message:

<p><code>SEARCH PROMED yellow fever ghana</code>

<p>You will get back a list of messages which have text matching
one or more keywords:

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<pre>90%  promed-mail 9612: PRO/AH/EDR> Yellow fever - Ghana[3]
78%  promed-mail 9611: Yellow fever, imported - USA from Brazil[4]

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[3] http://www.healthnet.org/programs/promed-hma/9612/0010.html
[4] http://www.healthnet.org/programs/promed-hma/9611/0040.html<pre>
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<p>To access the message titled "Yellow fever - Ghana", look at the
end of the message for an index of hypertext links and choose the link
for 3.  Then send another message to getweb@usa.healthnet.org:

<p>GET http://www.healthnet.org/programs/promed-hma/9611/0040.html

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