News and Resources about Pandemic Influenza - Event Date: August 18 2009 - October 18 2009

H1N1 Resources

• Alltop - Swine Flu News
  
• Australian Department of Health: H1N1 Influenza 09 Outbreak
  
• Business Continuity — The Pandemic Threat
  
• CDC: H1N1 Website
  
• CDC: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  
• CIDRAP: Pandemic Influenza
  
• CIDRAP: Swine Influenza
  
• Department of Health | Republic of the Philippines
  
• Dr. Vincent Racaniello's virology blog
  
• EuroFlu: The WHO European Influenza Network
  
• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
  
• Farming Pathogens: Disease in a world of our own making
  
• Fergus On Flu (BBC)
  
• Flu Threat (Australia)
  
• FluSurvey (UK)
  
• Folha Online: Gripe Suína (Brasil)
  
• Google News: Swine Flu (sorted by date)
  
• H1N1 Flu Virus (Human Swine Flu) - Public Health Agency of Canada
  
• H1N1 Influenza Center | New England Journal of Medicine
  
• H2P: Humanitarian Pandemic Preparedness
  
• Health Protection Agency (UK): Swine Influenza
  
• Higher Education H1N1 Google Map
  
• Human/Swine A/H1N1 Influenza Origins and Evolution (Wiki)
  
• Influenza A(H1N1)(PAHO)(English/Español)
  
• Influenza A(H1N1)(Swine Flu): A Global Outbreak (Supercourse)
  
• INFLUENZA PANDÉMICA | PANDEMIC INFLUENZA
  
• influweb.it (Italia)
  
• La Gripe A (H1N1) en Argentina
  
• New England Journal of Medicine: H1N1 Influenza Center
  
• New Zealand: Media updates - Influenza A (H1N1)
  
• News and facts about flu from the Singapore Government
  
• NewsNow: Swine Flu
  
• NIMR World Influenza Centre: London
  
• Pan American Health Organization: Influenza A/H1N1
  
• Pandemic Flu & Homeless Services‎
  
• Pandemic Influenza: A Guide to Recent Institute of Medicine Studies and Workshops
  
• Pandemic preparedness (Peter Osborn)
  
• PandemItalia: Informazione
  
• Seismo Blog (Deutsche)
  
• Silobreaker: Swine Flu
  
• Swine Flu (UK)
  
• Swine Flu - Google Blog Search
  
• Swine Flu: Nature News
  
• Swine influenza: DynaMed Summary
  
• The Lancet.com: H1N1 Flu Resource Centre
  
• The Swine. Influenza in Mexico City
  
• WHO: Influenza A(H1N1)
  
• Wikipedia: 2009 swine flu outbreak
  
• World Tackles Influenza A(H1N1) (China)
  

H5N1 News Gatherers

• C-Health
  
• Cempaka Health & Welfare (Indonesia)
  
• Google Flu Trends
  
• Google Health avian influenza
  
• Google Health Bird Flu (sorted by date)
  
• Google Health h5n1
  
• HealthMap | Global disease alert map
  
• NewsNow: Bird Flu
  
• OIE avian flu updates
  
• Pandemic Flu and You
  
• Reuters AlertNet - Bird Flu
  
• Silobreaker: Bird Flu
  
• Worldwide Fight Against Bird Flu (China)
  

H5N1/H1N1 Hot Zone Sources

• ABC News: Swine Flu (Australia)
  
• ABS-CBN News Online (Philippines)
  
• Al Masry Al Youm (Egypt)
  
• AllAfrica.com: Health and Medicine
  
• ANTARA - Indonesian News
  
• Arab News
  
• Bangkok Post
  
• Bidang Komunikasi Komnas FBPI (Indonesia)
  
• Buenos Aires Herald
  
• China Daily
  
• Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  
• Daily Star (Bangladesh)
  
• Egypt News
  
• eKantipur.com (Nepal)
  
• FAO Media Partnership’s Weblog
  
• Globe and Mail (Canada)
  
• Hindustan Times
  
• Hong Kong Government News
  
• Hong Kong Government: Fight Against Pandemic
  
• Indian Express
  
• Jakarta Globe
  
• Jakarta Post
  
• Japan Times
  
• Komnas FBPI (Indonesia)
  
• Mass Communications Organization of Thailand
  
• Metro TV Online (Bahasa Indonesia)
  
• Ministry of Health, Indonesia
  
• Momento 24 (Argentina)
  
• Myanmar Times
  
• New Age (Bangladesh)
  
• New York Times
  
• News in English, Kidon Media-Link
  
• Onlinenewspapers.com
  
• People's Daily Online (China)
  
• SAIDR: Strengthening Avian Influenza Detection and Response in Egypt
  
• Secretaría de Salud (México) en español
  
• Thanh Nien Daily (Vietnam)
  
• The Australian
  
• The Irrawaddy
  
• The Korea Times
  
• The Nation (Thailand)
  
• The News (Mexico City)
  
• The Standard (Hong Kong)
  
• The Statesman (India)
  
• The Times of India
  
• Vientiane Times
  
• Viet Nam News
  
• Vietnam News Agency (VNA)
  
• VietnamNet Bridge
  
• Winnipeg Free Press
  
• Xinhua (China)
  

H5N1/H1N1 Bloggers

• A Pandemic Chronicle
  SophiaZoe always has a personal and insightful response to H5N1 issues.
• A Time's Memory
  Offers highly detailed surveys of news stories and scientific reports.
• An English Teacher Under Quarantine in South Korea
  
• *****
  Excellent news coverage and even better analysis.
• Avian/Pandemic Influenza Daily Digest
  Excellent survey site.
• Bird Flu Information Corner (Indonesia/Japan)
  Invaluable coverage of H5N1 and H1N1 in Indonesia, with translations from local media reports.
• Bird Flu Manual
  Emphasis on business planning for pandemic.
• Chen Qi - A Morning Fresh Breeze (English/Chinese)
  Excellent reports on H5N1 and related health issues from a blogger in the Netherlands.
• Effect Measure
  Required reading.
• Egyptian Chronicles
  Good coverage of Egyptian flu news, and Zeinobia is fun to read on any topic.
• Fergus On Flu (BBC)
  
• Flu News Network
  Good coverage of H1N1 reports.
• Get Ready for Flu (American Public Health Association)
  Low-key, readable, informative.
• H1N1 Swine Flu Outbreak 2009 Blog (Singapore)
  
• Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog
  A one-off from the US department of health and human services. Worth exploring.
• Pandemic Information News
  Wide-ranging coverage in several languages, with computer translations of many reports.
• Penumbra Pandemia (English/Finnish)
  Good perspectives from a longtime flubie.
• Philip Alcabes: Challenging myths of health, behavior, and risk
  Always worth reading, Dr. Alcabes is a public-health expert with a sharp eye for the links between pandemics and politics.
• ******** Commentary
  Comment from a longtime H5N1-watcher.
• ******
  Flublogia's infotech wizard, with an eye on H5N1 and other emerging diseases.
• Superbug (Maryn McKenna on MRSA)
  Excellent insights into the whole public-health system from a different point of view.
• Swine Flu CEO
  
• Swine Flu in Australia
  An important new blog with emphasis on analyzing rates and trends in the spread and impact of H1N1.
• virology blog
  Dr. Vincent Racaniello offers expert comment and analysis in posts that non-experts can understand.
• What's new in the world of pandemic and avian flu? (CARE)
  

H5N1 Discussions

• CurEvents.com - The Flu Clinic
• Flu****
• Forum sur la grippe aviaire - virus H5N1 - Forum Influenzah5n1.fr
• h5n1 - l'actualité de la grippe aviaire
• New Flu Wiki Forum
• Pandemic Flu Information Forum
• Plan for Pandemic
• The Flu Clinic - CurEvents.org
• Zone grippe aviaire (English/Anglais)

WHO Sites

• Current WHO Phase of Pandemic Alert
• WHO Avian Influenza ("bird flu") Fact Sheet
• WHO Confirmed Human Cases of Avian Influenza A(H5N1)
• WHO Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response
• WHO Podcasts
• WHO Situation updates - Avian influenza
• WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
• WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record
• WHO | Avian influenza: food safety issues
• WHO | Clinical management of human infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus
• WHO | Swine influenza
• WHO/WPRO-Human Avian Influenza A/H5N1 Cases by Onset Date
• WHO: Acceptable Labs for Positive PCR Results of H5 Infection in Humans
• World Health Organization Home Page

H5N1 Technical Sources

• Biosurveillance
• Bird Flu Manual (Dr. Grattan Woodson)
• CIDRAP 10-Point Framework for Pandemic Influenza Business Contingency Planning
• CIDRAP Avian Influenza
• CIDRAP: Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
• CIDRAP: Pandemic Puzzle Vaccine Series and Other News
• CIDRAP: Promising Practices
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Bird Flu
• Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
• Emerging Infectious Diseases
• EuroSurveillance
• FluWeb Historical Influenza Database
• Global Avian Influenza Network for Surveillance
• Global Health Progress
• Global Viral Forecasting Initiative
• Google Scholar "h5n1" (all articles)
• Google Scholar "h5n1" (since 2007)
• Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Early Detection Data System (HEDDS)
• Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource
• Influenza Report 2006
• International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations: The Influenza Virus
• Nature Reports Avian Flu
• OIE World Animal Health Information Database
• ProMED-mail
• Satellite Tracking Migratory Bird (USGS)
• Target Population
• The Lancet Infectious Diseases
• The Lancet: Avian Influenza
• This Week in Virology
• UNICEF - Avian and pandemic influenza communication resources

H5N1/H1N1 Government Sites

• Accueil - Grippe aviaire
  
• Avian Influenza in Wild Birds (US Fish & Wildlife Service)
  
• Hong Kong Government Flu Site (in Chinese)
  
• Pandemic Flu (US Government Official Site)
  
• Avianinfluenza.com.au (Australian Government Site)
  
• Avian Influenza (Bahrain)
  
• Virginia Department of Health: Pandemic Influenza
  
• Hong Kong Government Flu Site (in English)
  
• Singapore Government Flu Website
  
• Avian Flu Page (Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, India)
  
• Pandemic Influenza - Pandémie d'influenza (Canada)
  
• US Food and Drug Administration: Flu Information
  
• New York State Avian Influenza Page
  
• US Department of Agriculture - Avian Influenza
  
• British Columbia Pandemic Preparedness
  
• Bird Flu (Egypt)
  
• Portal Influenza Aviária (Brasil)
  
• Infectieziekten: Vogelgriep (Nederlands)
  
• Pandemic Flu: New York City
  
• CIDRAP International Government Pandemic Flu Resources
  
• Ministry of Health, Indonesia
  
• Pandemic Flu - WA State Dept. of Health
  
• USGS National Wildlife Health Center - Avian Influenza
  
• Utah Pandemic Influenza Site
  
• إنفلونزا الطيور
  
• Gripe Aviar (Argentina)
  
• Pandemic Influenza and Avian Influenza (Japan)
  
• Flu in Maine
  
• UK Resilience
  
• Pandemic flu: A national framework for responding to an influenza pandemic (UK)
  
• Avian Influenza and the Pandemic Threat: UN portal on response
  
• Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  
• National Institute of Health (Pakistan)
  
• وزارة الصحة و السكان - التثقيف الصحى
  
• Media Center Komnas FBPI (Indonesia)
  
• Burmese Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries: Bird Flu
  
• Viet Nam Partnership for Avian and Human Pandemic Influenza
  
• 中华人民共和国卫生部 (China Ministry of Health)
  
• US Department of State: Avian Influenza
  
• ASEAN Plus Three Countries Information on Emerging Infectious Diseases
  
• Singapore Flu Portal
  
• Ohio Pandemic Influenza
  
• PanFluidaho.org
  
• Avian Influenza Toolkit (Australia)
  
• Saudi Arabia (in Arabic) الحملة الوطنية للتوعية بانفلونزا الطيور
  
• Pilot Project of Avian Influenza Control, Tangerang (English/Bahasa)
  
• Toronto Public Health
  
• SAIDR: Strengthening Avian Influenza Detection and Response in Egypt
  
• Pandemic Québec
  
• NATIONAL PANDEMIC FLU LINE SERVICE (UK)
  

H5N1/H1N1 Français

• Accueil - Grippe aviaire
  
• Flu Wiki en français
  
• AgoraVox - grippe aviare
  
• La Grippe Aviare: urgence! danger!
  
• La grippe aviaire
  
• La grippe aviaire : le nouveau risque mondial?
  
• Taxus Pharma (H5N1)(Français/English)
  
• h5n1 - l'actualité de la grippe aviaire
  
• Republicain (Niger)
  
• H5N1- Ultimate News - grippe aviaire (Suisse)
  
• le blog h5n1-theses-hypotheses
  
• Plan canadien de lutte contre la pandémie d'influenza dans le secteur de la santé
  
• Pandémie grippale, éthique, société
  
• Forum sur la grippe aviaire - virus H5N1 - Forum Influenzah5n1.fr
  
• Zone grippe aviaire
  
• Courrier du Vietnam: Santé
  
• Gazette de Zonegrippeaviaire
  
• Pandémie Québec
  

H5N1 General International

• Avian Influenza (Farsi)
• Avian Influenza News (Iran)
• Bird Flu(Japan)
• Birdflu/Madárinfluenzáról (Magyar)
• CIDRAP International Government Pandemic Flu Resources
• Epistheme (español)
• FIC: Flu in China
• FijneFeitjes - web-log.nl
• Fugleinfluensa : Nyhetene.blogspot.com (Norsk)
• Fugleinfluensaen - (Norsk)
• Griep.blog.nl | Weblog over de link tussen griep, vogelgriep en Spaanse griep
• Gripe Aviar (español)
• Gripe das Aves (Português/English)
• Influenza Gripe Aviar Chile
• Media Center Komnas FBPI (Indonesia)
• MIKROBioLOG (Slovenia)
• Noticias Salud México (español)
• Pan American Health Organization Avian Influenza (English, español e português)
• PandemItalia
• Vogelgriep.pagina.nl
• Vogelgrippe Virus und Influenza-Pandemie
• World Bank Avian Flu Page

Books on Influenza

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  Allen, Arthur: Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver

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  Barry, John M. : The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History

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  Chase, Marilyn : The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco

• Derenne, Jean-Philippe, et al.: Pandémie: La grande menace
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  Duncan, Kirsty E. : Hunting the 1918 Flu: One Scientist's Search for a Killer Virus

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  Greenfeld, Karl Taro: China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic

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  Greger, Dr. Michael: Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching

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  Kidder, Tracy: Mountains Beyond Mountains : The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

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  Kolata, Gina Bari : Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It

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  Lam, Dr. Vincent and Dr. Colin Lee: The Flu Pandemic and You: A Canadian Guide

• Pettigrew, Eileen : Silent Enemy: Canada and the Deadly Flu of 1918
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  Woodson, Dr. Grattan : The Bird Flu Preparedness Planner

H5N1 Journal Articles

• Antiviral Use During Influenza Pandemic | CDC EID
• Are US flu death figures more PR than science? -- Doshi 331 (7529): 1412 -- BMJ
• Attitudes Toward The Use Of Quarantine In A Public Health Emergency In Four Countries
• Entrez PubMed
• Evolution of H5N1 Avian Influenza Viruses in Asia (CDC)
• Fatal Avian Influenza A (H5N1) in a Child Presenting with Diarrhea Followed by Coma
• Genesis of a highly pathogenic and potentially pandemic H5N1 influenza virus in eastern Asia.
• Gripe aviária: a resposta brasileira, artigo de Saraiva Felipe
• H5N1 Influenza A Virus and Infected Human Plasma
• Influenza A H5N1 Detection | CDC EID
• Influenza pandemics and avian flu -- BMJ
• Is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Over?
• Nature Special Issue on Avian Flu
• NEJM -- Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Infection in Eastern Turkey in 2006
• NEJM -- Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Infection in Humans
• NEJM -- H5N1 Influenza -- Continuing Evolution and Spread (Webster & Gorokova)
• NEJM -- Oseltamivir Resistance -- Disabling Our Influenza Defenses
• NEJM -- Oseltamivir Resistance during Treatment of Influenza A (H5N1) Infection
• NEJM -- Preparing for the Next Pandemic
• NEJM -- The Origins of Pandemic Influenza -- Lessons from the 1918 Virus
• NEJM -- Three Indonesian Clusters of H5N1 Virus Infection in 2005
• NEJM -- Update on Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus Infection in Humans
• Nonpharmaceutical Interventions for Pandemic Flu
• Pandemic Influenza: Risk of Multiple Introductions and the Need to Prepare for Them
• PLoS Medicine: A Systematic Analytic Approach to Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Planning
• Protection of Mice and Poultry from Lethal H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus through Adenovirus-Based Immunization (Abstract)
• PubMed Journal Articles on Pandemic Preparedness Planning
• Reducing the Impact of the Next Influenza Pandemic Using Household-Based Public Health Interventions
• Strategies for mitigating an influenza pandemic : Nature
• The Next Influenza Pandemic: Lessons from Hong Kong, 1997
• The Real Case Fatality Rate of H5N1 Avian Influenza

My Flu-Related Articles

• A Disaster to Make Hurricane Katrina Look Miniscule
  
• Avian Flu Bloggers Getting Alarmed
  
• Avian Flu Gets Our Attention
  
• Blogging the Pandemic
  
• How Bad Can a Flu Be?
  
• Lessons of the Barbary Plague
  
• Marketing Pandemic
  
• Sick Politics
  
• Stopped Worrying about Avian Flu?
  
• Surfing a Swine Flu News Tsunami
  
• The Flu Pandemic and You: A Canadian Guide
  
• Where I Get the Latest 'Nasties' on the Avian Flu
  
• Worst Christmas Flu Ever
  

 

 

 

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