Links and Other Resources
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Current awareness resources
News aggregators
and blogrolls
An online news aggregator
is a webpage or service that collects syndicated content from disparate
sources and provides a consolidated view. Aggregators substantially
improve upon the time and effort needed to regularly check websites of
interest for updates. Through subscriptions to syndicated content feeds
and the aggregator’s periodic collection of updates, users are able to
create a unique information space that caters to their specific needs.
A blogroll is a collection of
links to other weblogs.
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News blogs and
daily commentary
These blogs are
maintained by both
amateurs and health care professionals and offer daily news and
commentary on public health issues related to avian influenza.
- Recombinomics
Pointed daily
commentaries by Dr. Henry L. Niman on technical aspects of breaking
avian influenza news
- Connotea:
Avian flu
Connotea is a
social bookmarking service for scientists, where you can find news
links and resources posted by Declan
Butler, senior reporter at Nature
magazine
- Pharmaviews news and commentary by Dr. Leland Teng, MD.
Based in Seattle, WA. includes medical commentary of “Avian Flu
products”
- Global Pandemic Bird flu information and other global pandemics
- PoultryMed
a site with bird flu news maintained by Dr. Nati Elkin
- The
Coming Influenza Pandemic? a blog
offering daily round-ups and commentary on influenza-related news from
around the world.
- Effect Measure
A
group blog offering progressive public health discussion and argument
as well as a source of public health information from around the web.
The editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and
practitioners.
- H5N1 A news blog maintained by Crawford Kilian.
Based in Vancouver, Canada.
- Avian Flu - What we
need to know a blog with news and
commentary by Tyler Cowen.
- Biopeer:
A/H5N1 Avian Influenza biopeer, a
blog ‘for the global life sciences research community’, carries news
and commentary on avian flu.
- Bird Flu Updates
a regularly updated
news blog.
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Bulletin boards
& discussion forum
The following bulletin boards or discussion forum cover avian influenza
and public health issues.
- CurEvents
“flu clinic”
A current events
discussion board centering on bird flu; people with wide range of
perspectives who avidly follow the issue
- Agonist Bulletin Board - Disease outbreaks
Bulletin board and
discussion forum. Dr. Niman of Recombinomics posts regularly.
One of the fastest disease outbreak news sources in the world. Shut
down by it’s moderators Oct 5, 2005.
- H5N1 Poultry Flu and Wild Birds
Discussion forum
and blog maintained by by Hong Kong-based ornithologist Dr Martin
Williams. (op. Agenda of blog is to argue against the role of
wild birds in spreading H5N1)
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Upcoming Conferences
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News articles
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Authoritative sources of background information
- ProMED-mail Highly
respected medical news source. The Program for Monitoring Emerging
Diseases is an electronic outbreak reporting system that monitors
infectious diseases globally. The news on ProMED are selected and
reviewed by health care professionals associated with the International
Society for Infectious Diseases.
Usually a day or so later than “breaking news” sources but with value
added of moderator comments (perspectives vary with particular
moderator on duty). The avian influenza news page on ProMED-mail is edited
by, among others:
- Lawrence C.
Madoff, Associate
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Author of three articles
in “Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine”
- Peter Cowen
(PC) Associate
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, College of Veterinary
Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Craig R.
Pringle (CP) Emeritus
Professor, University of Warwick. Formerly Secretary of the
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.
- Arnon
Shimshony (AS) Associate Professor, Koret School of Veterinary
Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- Nature: Warnings of a Flu Pandemic Nature
Magazine’s 26 May, 2005 issue focusing on avian flu / pandemic.
Contains a great number of articles by top experts (mostly on free
access).
- Foreign
Affairs: Avian Flu
A special section in Foreign Affairs’ July/August 2005 issue. Coverage
in coordination with Nature Magazine. Articles by Laurie Garrett,
Michael T. Osterholm, William B. Karesh and Robert A. Cook (on free
access);
“No one can truly be isolated from a pandemic” (Osterholm)
- YaleGlobal:
Avian Flu Special report with
youthful articles and selected readings in several languages.
- CIDRAP. Avian Influenza: Implications for Human Disease
Background
information from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy.
CIDRAP is headed by Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, a leading expert.
- Preparing for the Next Pandemic (author: Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H.
New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 352:1839–1842 #18. May 5, 2005) full text | pdf
- Emerging Pandemic: Costs and Consequences of an Avian
Influenza Pandemic Outbreak web
cast of presentations by Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director of CIDRAP,
and Helen Branswell, Medical Writer with the Canadian Press Agency.
This event took place on Sep 19, 2005 at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Links to audio and
video streams of the event are provided. event summary | Dr Osterholm’s presentation (ppt) | ext
link to downloadable wmv file of the webcast
- Dr. Michael T.
Osterholm, director of the Center for
Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), and Peter Aldhous,
Chief News & Features Editor Nature
Magazine, speak to WNYC’s Leonard Lopate on July 14, 2005. 30 minutes
packed with information. A truly excellent and authoritative
introduction to the issues. listen (mp3 stream) | download (12.4 MB)
- Testimony of Julie L. Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H.,
Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) before the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Energy and
Commerce of the U.S. House of Representatives. (May 26, 2005 | transcript)
- CDC: Avian
Influenza The avian influenza page
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- HHS National
Vaccine Program Office The pandemic
influenza page of the United States Dept. of Health and Human Services,
with background information and FAQs.
- Mayo
Clinic: Bird flu (avian influenza) Influenza
page of the Mayo Clinic, with bg information and advice.
- Orthomyxovirus A
backgrounder on the Orthomyxovirus (influenza virus) from the
Microbiology Dept. at the University of Leicester, UK
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Official resources
see International
Category for pandemic plans by region and country.
- WHO Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response:
Avian Influenza (Geneva HQ)
- WHO
Regional Office For Western Pacific: Avian Influenza
(location: Manila). Covers China, Vietnam, Japan, Korea, the
Phillipines, Taiwan, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, Mongolia, Laos,
Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, Papua-New Guinea, Hong Kong and the
West Pacific Islands.
- WHO
Regional Office For South-East Asia: Avian Influenza
(location: New Delhi) Covers Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bhutan, Nepal, DPR
Korea, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Indonesia, East Timor, the Maldives.
- OIE: World
Organisation for Animal Health
(Paris HQ) A UN body.
- FAO: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (Rome HQ)
- FAO Avian Influenza provides
disease reports and avian influenza ‘bulletins’, bi-weekly and
cumulative outbreak maps, background information.
- ReliefWeb: United Nations Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs
ReliefWeb is the
world’s leading on-line gateway to information (documents and maps) on humanitarian emergencies and disasters.
- IRIN News The Integrated Regional Information Network,
part of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA)
A UN initiative that saves lives and money, IRIN pioneered the use of
e-mail and web technology to deliver and receive information to and
from some of the most remote and underdeveloped places in Africa.
- United States of America
- Pandemicflu.gov offical CDC Pandemic Flu webpage
- NIAID
Influenza page The National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is part of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH).
- U.S. Clinical
trials (NIH)
ClinicalTrials.gov provides regularly updated information about
federally and privately supported clinical research in human
volunteers. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial’s
purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more
details.
- CDC: Avian
Influenza The avian influenza page
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- HHS National
Vaccine Program Office The pandemic
influenza page of the United States Dept. of Health and Human Services,
with background information and FAQs.
- USinfo: Bird Flu
Avian Influenza page of the State Dept’s Bureau of International
Information.
- DoD: GEIS Dept of Defense Global Emerging Infections
Surveillance and Response System.
- Bird Flu
& You - handout and poster from
Center for Technology and National Defense Policy (affiliated with
National Defense University)
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- Canada
- European Union
- United Kingdom
- Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region, People’s Republic of China
- Government of Singapore
- See also the Vaccine
Manufacturers wiki page.
- CIA
Historical Review: Intelligence Implications of Disease
- The Global Infectious Disease Threat and Its
Implications for the United States
National
Intelligence Estimate NIE 99–17D, January 2000. National Intelligence
Council. full text | pdf (2.46 MB)
- Constitution of the World Health Organization Constitution of the WHO, July 22, 1946.
mirror: Yale Law School
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FAQs
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Scientific papers
Please sort by date
- most recent first. See also CIDRAP (avian flu/pandemic flu), Nature, Connotea
and FIC
for links to recent scientific research.
- Large-scale sequencing of human influenza reveals the
dynamic nature of viral genome evolution (Elodie Ghedin et al
Nature:doi:10.1038/nature04239)
- The 1918 flu virus is resurrected (Nature Published online: 5 October 2005; |
doi:10.1038/437794a
- Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Infection in Humans
(The Writing Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO)
Consultation on Human Influenza A/H5, NEJM, Volume 353:1374–1385 Sept
29, 2005)
- Evolution of H5N1 Avian Influenza Viruses in Asia (author: The World Health Organization Global
Influenza Program Surveillance Network. Emerg Infect Dis Vol.11 No.10
2005 Oct.) full text
- H5N1
influenza and the Implications for Europe (authors: D. Coulombier, K. Ekdahl. BMJ. 2005
Aug 20;331(7514):413–4. August 2005) full
text
- Cost-benefit of stockpiling drugs for influenza
pandemic. (authors:
Balicer RD, Huerta M, Davidovitch N, Grotto I. Ministry of Health,
Jerusalem, Israel; and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva,
Israel. Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol.11 #9, August 2005.) full text | pdf
“We
analyzed strategies for the use of stockpiled antiviral drugs in the
context of a future influenza pandemic, estimating cost-benefit ratios.
Current stockpiling of oseltamivir appears to be cost-saving to the
economy under several treatment strategies, including therapeutic
treatment of patients and postexposure prophylactic treatment of
patients’ close contacts.”
- Is the
1918 Influenza Pandemic Over?
Long-Term Effects of in utero Influenza Exposure in the
post-1940 U.S. Population. (author: Douglas Almond. Columbia University
and NBER,
July 2005.) pdf
- Human Infection by Avian Influenza H5N1 (authors: KY Yuen, SSY Wong. Hong Kong Medical
Journal, 2005; 11:189–99. June 10, 2005.) abstract | pdf (english)
- Preparing for the Next Pandemic (author: Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H.
New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 352:1839–1842 #18. May 5, 2005) full text | pdf
- H5N1: A protean pandemic threat (authors:
Y. Guan, L. L. M. Poon, C. Y. Cheung, T. M. Ellis, W. Lim, A. S.
Lipatov, K. H. Chan, K. M. Sturm-Ramirez, C. L. Cheung, Y. H. C. Leung,
K. Y. Yuen, R. G. Webster, and J. S. M. Peiris. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S
A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8156–8161.) abstract | full text | pdf
- Re-emergence of fatal human influenza A subtype H5N1
disease (authors:
Peiris JS, Yu WC, Leung CW, Cheung CY, Ng WF, Nicholls JM, Ng TK, Chan
KH, Lai ST, Lim WL, Yuen KY, Guan Y. The Lancet 2004; 363:617–619.
February 21 2004) abstract | full text | pdf | commentary
- Transmission
of H7N7 avian influenza A virus to human beings during a large outbreak
in commercial poultry farms in the Netherlands
(authors: Marion Koopmans, Berry Wilbrink, Marina Conyn, Gerard Natrop,
Hans van der Nat, Harry Vennema, Adam Meijer, Jim van Steenbergen, Ron
Fouchier, Albert Osterhaus and Arnold Bosman. The Lancet 2004;
363:587–593. February 21 2004) abstract | full text | pdf | commentary
- Induction
of proinflammatory cytokines in human macrophages by influenza A (H5N1)
viruses: a mechanism for the unusual severity of human disease (authors:
CY Cheung, LLM Poon, AS Lau, W Luk, YL Lau, KF Shortridge, S Gordon, Y
Guan and JSM Peiris. The Lancet 2002; 360:1831–1837. December 7 2002) abstract | full text | pdf | commentary
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Maps and statistics
see also the maps section in the International
category
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Reports
Please sort by date
- most recent first.
- A killer flu? A
report from Trust for America’s Health (June 2005 | pdf 21pp, 211 k).
Annotation:
In addition to an introduction to pandemic influenza and the threat it
currently poses, this report includes: A state-by-state examination of
potential deaths and hospitalizations due to a flu pandemic; A
state-by-state examination of capacity to treat citizens with
recommended antivirals; A review of U.S. and state pandemic readiness,
including a comparison to other nations’ progress; and an outline of
activities that need to be addressed in federal, state, and local
preparedness efforts.
- How to Lead During Bioattacks and Epidemics with the
Public’s Trust and Help “A manual
for mayors, governors and top health officials” from the Center for Biosecurity at University of
Pittsburgh’s Medical Center. (March 2004) intro | summary | pdf
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Significant essays
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Other sources of background information
- Wikipedia
entry on avian influenza
- Singapore Medical Association article about masks and
other Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) pdf
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Support
Center
“Education, care, support, and communication for patients, survivors,
families, friends, medical personnel, and others affected by and/or
interested in ARDS”, a potential complication of cytokine storm 2º to H5N1.
- Asia-Pacific Migratory Waterbird Conservation Strategy:
2001-2005
Statement:
Wetlands International is keen to provide access to its expertise on
waterbirds and its databases, to assist our members and the authorities
to better understand the relationship, if any, between wild populations
of waterbirds and the reported patterns of disease within the farmed
bird stock.
- Asia-Pacific
Migratory Waterbird Conservation Strategy: 1996 - 2000
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Travel guides
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Spanish Flu 1918–19
Links to articles,
books and scientific research on the 1918 influenza pandemic.
- Wikipedia
entry for the 1918
flu pandemic
- FluWiki page on
the 1918 Pandemic
- Is the
1918 Influenza Pandemic Over? Long-Term
Effects of in utero Influenza Exposure in the post-1940 U.S.
Population, by Douglas Almond. Columbia University and NBER, July
2005. pdf
- PBS
American Experience — Influenza Pandemic 1918
Companion web site for the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film on the influenza
epidemic in America in 1918. Search this site for photographs, a
timeline, maps, and profiles of people who lived during the epidemic.
- PBS
Secrets of the Dead — Influenza
Supplemental web site to the program SECRETS OF THE DEAD. Read about
the background of the 1918 “Spanish Flu” influenza pandemic, and about
new research being conducted by Jeffery Taubenberger, a molecular
pathologist at the U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, to isolate
the entire genetic sequence of the 1918 virus.
- The
Influenza Pandemic of 1918 picture
story by Molly Billings. (June 1997. mod. by RDS February 2005)
- Capturing a killer flu virus, by Jeffrey T. Taubenberger, Ann H. Reid and
Thomas G. Fanning. Scientific American, January 2005. (subscription only.)
It was the first report in popular literature of direct study of flu
virus itself,and the genetic reason of human infection was revealed.
- The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest
Plague In History by John M. Barry.
Viking Adult, 2004. current bestseller, one of President Bush’s 2005
summmer readings.
- An Avian
Connection as a Catalyst to the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic by James E. Hollenbeck, Indiana University.
International Journal of Medical Sciences 2005 2:87–90. (free access.)
- The 1918
Spanish Flu Pandemic and the Hong Kong Incident by Leonard Crane, author of Ninth day of Creation (2002)
- Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918
and the Search for the Virus that Caused It by
Gina Kolata. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Working for New York
Times since 1987, former senior writer for Science, 2000 Pulitzer Prize
finalist.
- Catching Cold by
Pete Davies. Michael Joseph, 1999.
- America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918
by Alfred W.
Crosby, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
- The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19 and How It Affected
the City of Schenectady, New York by
Alan A. Morris. (1986)
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Swine Flu
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Black Death
The Bubonic plague
or ‘Black Death’ is thought to have decimated the populations of
mediaeval Europe.
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