More Resources on Swine Flu

by Alanna Shaikh · 2009-04-27 05:02:00 UTC
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Swine flu overview from aetiology. This is a good summary with a little more background and technical detail than I gave you in my post.

An arms control perspective on pandemics. The same blog also features a handy glossary of flu terminology.

Crofsblogs on swine flu, and its lack of good disaster narrative.

If you fear the worst, and want to do something, check out the Bucky-Gandhi Institute's orientation and action guide. I myself am stocking up on hand sanitizer. Since I live in an earthquake zone, I've already got a week of food and water stockpiled.  It's unlikely that Dushanbe is going to be at huge risk for this, but if we've got a lot of infections, avoiding unnecessary social contact would be a good idea.

Mashable.com has an excellent advice on how to track swine flu online.

Google maps is tracking the swine flu outbreak.

For historical perspective, the LA Times has an article about the 1976 swine flu episode.

If you're on twitter and want to keep up with swine flu news and preparedness, you can follow @cdcemergency, which has official US government information and breaking news, @carolarc with advice about preparedness for epidemic, @swineflureports, which tweets each new reported case as it happens, @healthmap, which is tracking outbreaks, and  @healthglobal, which is from the University of Massachusetts and therefore does a decent job curating what it links to.

Alanna Shaikh
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