Sources and Links

News aggregators · Suspect News Sites · Blogs and daily commentary · Bulletin boards · Authoritative sources of information · Congressional testimony · Official resources · Other sources of background information · Maps and statistics · FAQs · Travel guides · Major Reports · Risk Communication · Critique of U.S. flu planning· Scientific papers · The 1918 pandemic · Black death · Swine flu · Upcoming conferences · News articles · Recursos en español

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

• Avian Flu Watch group on flickr.com.
• Avian Influenza News - CIDRAP very authoritative source
• Bird Flu News - Science and Development Net excellent source
• Bird Flu News Archives NewsLIB’s Bird Flu news and article archives. The RSS feed provides the latest articles only
• Bird Flu News Database Sequential news articles with archive
• Bird Flu News Headlines (op. high ads to news ratio)
• Birdflubeacon provides top news stories daily, weekly and archives since June, 2006 Maps, stats and info for individuals on prevention, preparation and treatment for bird flu: A very comprehensive site
• Effect Measure’s avian flu site blogroll (dated May 21, 2005)
• Euractiv.com Euro health news
• Flu Information Centre A bilingual news aggregator based in Hangzhou, China. Also provides links to newly published scientific research.
• Google News Bird flu / Avian flu
• Homeopathy & Bird Flu Details of Bird flu with Homeopathic Possibilities by Dr. Abdul Gafar from India
• Infectious Diseases of America Influenza Resources Web site
• MedWorm Swine Flu Newsfeed Made up from thousands of authoritative medical and news sources
• MSNBC Bird Flu Headlines
• NewsNow Bird flu. UK-based website. Updates from ~21,000 news sources every 5 minutes
• Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer - Bird Flu: Spread of the H5N1 virus Interactive map, video and audio archives from the NewsHour
• Pandemic Influenza News - CIDRAP very authoritative source
• Reuters’ AlertNet Crisis Centre - Bird Flu
• Swine Flu News Database Sequential news articles with archive
• The Poultry Site: News & Analysis UK-based website catering to the poultry industry. Provides daily roundups of poultry industry news.
• The Wall Street Journal’s Avian Flu News Tracker
• Topix.net News: Influenza

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Suspect News Sites

It is recommended by Flu Wiki readers that flu articles from these sites be confirmed elsewhere

• PR Web
  PR Web isn’t credible because anyone can post a “press release.”
• WorldNetDaily
  Agenda-oriented news site
• Rense
  Rense is prone to conspiracy theory and outrageous stories. It occasionally carries legit stuff, but plays it up way out of proportion.

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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.

• Avian Flu - What we need to know (NOW DORMANT as of 4/21/06) a blog with news and commentary by Tyler Cowen.
• Avian Flu Diary A blog maintained by Michael Coston.
• Avian Flu Prevention Information on pandemic bird flu and how to prepare. Dormant since May, 2007.
• Avian Influenza Focusing Organization a Chinese non-profit organization focusing on avian influenza. Apparently dormant since 2006.
• Biopeer: A/H5N1 Avian Influenza biopeer, a blog ‘for the global life sciences research community’, carries news and commentary on avian flu.
• Bird Flu Twitter a regularly updated microblog.
• Complete Bird Flu Survival Guide Everything you need to know about bird flu & how to protect yourself. Dormant since 2006.
• 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. New publication ceased as of May 17, 2010 but the archives are still up.
• Ethics & Pandemics Blog From Johns Hopkins. Dormant since 2007.
• Get Ready The Get Ready blog is a resource for the public on preparedness for public health emergencies published by the American Public Health Association
• H5N1 A news blog maintained by Crawford Kilian. Based in Vancouver, Canada.
• H7N9 Flu News A blog maintained by Dave Roberts
• Influenza Monitor clear and concise news, analysis, and information resources on pandemic influenza
• Influenza Pandemic Blog collection of statistics from Andy Pryke
• Monotreme’s Blog Monotreme is a Flu Wiki alumnus
• Pandemic Flu Watch Pandemic Influenza: news, ideas and debates. Dormant since May, 2009
• Pandemic Plan: Preparing for a possible bird flu pandemic News and information source. Dormant since Dec., 2010
• Pharmaviews news and commentary by Dr. Lelang Teng, MD. Based in Seattle, WA. Includes medical commentary on “Avian Flu products”
• PoultryMed a site with bird flu news maintained by Dr. Nati Elkin
• Recombinomics Pointed daily commentaries by Dr. Henry L. Niman on technical aspects of breaking avian influenza news
• Scott McPherson’s Web Presence A blog on various topics including influenza and pandemic preparedness
• The Coming Influenza Pandemic? a blog offering daily round-ups and commentary on influenza-related news from around the world. Dormant since Sept., 2008.
• The Flu News Blog Flu news from around the world.

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Bulletin boards & discussion fora

The following bulletin boards or discussion fora cover avian influenza and public health issues.

• Flutrackers.com Forum devoted to tracking infectious diseases (in several languages).
• H5N1 Poultry Flu and Wild Birds Discussion forum and blog maintained by by Hong Kong-based ornithologist Dr Martin Williams.
• Pandemic Flu Information Forum Discussion forum focusing on pandemic influenza.
• Planning for Pandemic.com Friendly, Helpful and Timely Avian Flu Information
• Yahoo! Health Groups Inactive.

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Authoritative sources of background information

• CDC: Avian Influenza The avian influenza page of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• 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.
  • CIDRAP: Avian Influenza CIDRAP’S avian flu information page
  • CIDRAP: Business Planning Information page on business planning and influenza
  • CIDRAP: H7N9 Avian Influenza Information page on H7N9 influenza virus
  • CIDRAP: Novel H1N1 Influenza (Swine Flu) Information page on swine flu
  • CIDRAP: Pandemic Influenza CIDRAP’s pandemic flu information page.
• Foreign Affairs: The Next Pandemic? 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)
• Flu.gov A website about influenza, pandemics and preparedness managed by the United States Dept. of Health and Human Services.
• Mayo Clinic: Bird flu (avian influenza) Influenza page of the Mayo Clinic, with bg information and advice.
• 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).
• 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
• 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.
• YaleGlobal: Avian Flu Special report with several articles.

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Congressional and Legislative Testimony

• Testimony of Monica Schoch-Spana, PhD Senior Associate, Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Assistant Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh before the House Science Committee “Gaps in the National Flu Preparedness Plan: Social Science Planning and Response” (Dec 14, 2005)
• Testimony of Baruch Fischhoff, PhD (MS Word doc) Howard Heinz University Professor, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University before the House Science Committee “Gaps in the National Flu Preparedness Plan: Social Science Planning and Response” (Dec 14, 2005)
• Testimony of Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH (pdf) Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy Associate Director, DHS National Center for Food Protection and Defense Professor, School of Public Health, Adjunct Professor, School of Medicine University of Minnesota before the House Committee On International Relations “Avian Flu: Addressing the Global Threat” (Dec 7, 2005)
• Testimony of Scott Layne, MD UCLA School of Public Health to CA legislature - “California’s Level of Preparedness For An Outbreak of Avian Influenza” (Nov 4, 2005 .pdf transcript)

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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.
• OFFLU from OIE/FAO, both UN bodies. “In April 2005, the OIE and FAO created and endorsed a joint network of expertise on Avian influenza for the benefit of Member Countries.”
• OIE: World Organisation for Animal Health (Paris HQ) A UN body.
  • OIE Daily Update on Avian Influenza Situation in Birds
• 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
  • Flu.gov official US Government Pandemic Flu webpage managed by the Dept. of Health and Human Services
  • CDC: H1N1 Swine Flu offical CDC H1N1 Swine Flu webpage
  • CDC: Seasonal Influenza (Flu) - Avian Influenza The avian influenza page of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    • CDC Weekly Flu Reports start October 14
  • Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza US Fish and Wildlife Service
  • 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.
  • Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center Armed Forces Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System.
    • AFHSC - Influenza Reports
  • Bird Flu & You handout and poster from Center for Technology and National Defense Policy (affiliated with National Defense University)
• Canada
  • Public Health Agency of Canada: avian influenza
• European Union
  • EU Animal Health and Welfare - Avian Influenza
    Veterinary information on avian influenza
  • EU Public Health - Avian influenza in humans
    Public health information and links to EU documents
    • Towards sufficiency of Pandemic Influenza Vaccines in the EU (pdf) 22 April 2005
    • Influenza Pandemic Preparedness and Response
    • Technical guidance document on procedure for communication to Member States and the Commission about influenza A/H5 events (pdf) 9 March 2004
    • Technical Guidance Document on therapeutic and preventive measures to be considered for Avian Influenza in humans (pdf) 9 March 2004
  • Europe’s Directorate General for Health & Consumers
    • Health and Consumers Press Room Press releases, news, speeches
  • European Scientific Working Group on Influenza
  • EuroSurveillance
    Peer-reviewed European information on communicable disease surveillance and control
    • Influenza pandemic planning in Europe - July, 2005 (new)
    • Influenza pandemic planning in Europe - Sept, 2001 · pdf
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control – ECDC
    • European Influenza Surveillance Network
• United Kingdom
  • Responding to a UK flu pandemic Preparedness strategy as of 2011
  • Preparing for pandemic flu supplementary guidance for Local Resilience Forum planners
• Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China
  • Influenza Page HK’s Center for Health Protection (CPA) Influenza page.
  • Prevention of Avian Influenza News updates and link to latest pandemic preparedness plan (2012)
• Government of Singapore
  • AVA: Avian Influenza Website Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore.
• See also the Vaccine Manufacturers wiki page.

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Other sources of background information

• Get Ready Campaign American Public Health Association
• Flu Fact Sheets Get Ready Campaign, American Public Health Association
• Warning Shot: Influenza and the 2004 Flu Vaccine Shortage
• FluWiki Library of PanFlu-Related Books
• Wikipedia entry on avian influenza
• ganfyd entry on influenza: ganfyd is a collaborative medical textbook (wiki) by UK, Australian and Canadian doctors
• 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 (pdf)
  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
• 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. Archived by the Federation of American Scientists.
• Constitution of the World Health Organization Constitution of the WHO, July 22, 1946. mirror: Yale Law School
• An Industrial Safety Supply Company’s Global Effort in Defense Against the Bird Flu
• Avian Bird Flu Web Sites Directory
• Bird Flu Forecast
  H5N1, Avian Bird flu & pandemic contingency plans. Understanding avian (bird) A influenza, pandemic preventative measures, with anti-viral links and downloads. An h5n1 public health prepare and respond website updated daily with blog.
• Tinyurlslist List of tiny urls (work in progress)
  This is a non-exhaustive list of many web sites addresses which people in the FluWiki forum have found useful and/or informative. The addresses are presented in a table form, with short and long addresses, and brief description of topic, thread in which the link is mentioned, sorted by English alphabetical order of the tiny url
• BirdFluBook.org
  Full-text of “Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching” (Released November 2006, hardcover, 465 pgs) by Michael Greger, M.D., the Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at The Humane Society of the United States. All 3,000+ citations are hyperlinked and the site includes hundreds of full-text scientific articles in PDF format.
• Healthline.com
  The influenza category page from a respected online medical search engine and health information site. Topics include symptoms causes, conventional and alternative treatments and general articles.

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Maps and statistics

see also the maps section in the International category

• WHO map of avian influenza (H5N1) in Asia (source: WHO-WPRO. updated daily.)
• FAO: Avian Influenza maps Bi-weekly and cumulative maps of avian influenza outbreaks.
• WFP World Food Program, a UN agency
• EU Public Health Influenza Factsheet
  • Documented avian influenza infections in humans (all strains, since 1997) (updated continuously)
  • Outbreaks of avian influenza (A/H5N1) in animals and man reported from Asia since December 2003 (updated continuously)
  • Cumulative human cases of A/H5N1 (updated continuously)
• Dr.Henry Niman’s map of H5N1 bird flu outbreaks along the migratory paths of wild birds.
• Franc (penguinzee) a member of the agonist discussion board.
• Asia-Pacific Flyways of Migratory Waterbirds Interactive map (with sub-maps) of the flyways of migratory waterbirds in the East Asian-Australasian region established under the Asia-Pacific Migratory Waterbird Conservation Strategy. (wetlands.org)
• Turkey: Bird Flu Map Watch, Avian Influenza Detected Turkish Cities (March, 1, 2006, updated continuously)
• Bird Flu Global Surveillance: Real-Time Data Updates An XML data-generated map. This vector Map is viewed with the Adobe SVG(Scalable Vector Graphics) Viewer plugin
• GermTrax HealthMap Real-time symptom reports from around the world

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FAQs

• Flu FAQ Get Ready Campaign, American Public Health Association
• Avian influenza FAQ World Health Organization
• Ten things you need to know about pandemic influenza World Health Organization
• HHS The pandemic influenza page of the United States Dept. of Health
  and Human Services, with background information and FAQs. Which FAQ is most helpful to you? Have your say in the Forum
• Canadian Public Health Agency Avian flu FAQ. english · français
• EU Health and Consumer Protection Avian influenza FAQ.
• UK Health Protection Agency Frequently asked questions on avian influenza prepared by the Health Protection Agency & Health Protection Scotland.
• Pandemic flu: Important information for you and your family The UK Chief Medical Officer’s leaflet with basic advice. pdf
• Singapore Ministry of Health Bird flu FAQ.
• Singapore Government bird flu web site The Singapore govt.’s FAQ on Avian Influenza.
• Reuters Flu FAQs
• American Red Cross Pandemic Influenza FAQs
• Avian and pandemic influenza tipsheet for American Health Care Journalists Maryn McKenna, Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellow

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Travel Guides

• CDC outbreaks page, affected countries
• Travel Advisories The US State Department’s Travel Advisories.
• CDC Travel Page

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Reports

Please sort by date - most recent first.

• APHA Prescription for Pandemic Flu (February 2007) A report from American Public Health Association
• 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)

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Critique of U.S. pandemic flu planning

• A Potential Influenza Pandemic: Possible Macroeconomic Effects and Policy Issues
  from The Congress of the United States · Congressional Budget Office
• Ready or Not? — 2005
  annual study by Trust for America’s Health examining public health emergency preparedness on a state-by-state basis.
  executive summary · report (pdf)
• Pandemic Influenza: Domestic Preparedness Efforts
  from the Congressional Research Service, via Secrecy News
• Public debate needed on pandemic ethics
  from Helen Branswell. Canada has had SARS experience to learn from on this topic.
  See Ethics page for more, including the report in the news story.
• Congress Delays Flu Funding
  Open letter from Trust For America’s Health
• Working Group on Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Letter
  How Congress must fix the Bush Plan; TFAH (pdf)
• Bird Flu the Reality Some reasonable doubts and questions about the epidemic by Dr. Abdul Gafar from India

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Risk Communication

• WHO Inter-Country Consultation Influenza A/H5N1 in Humans in Asia. Manila, May 6th-7th 2005. pdf
• Columns by Peter Sandman and Jody Lanard
  • Pandemic Influenza Risk Communication: The Teachable Moment (December 4, 2004)
  • Superb Flu Pandemic Risk Communication: A Role Model from Australia (July 2005 )
  • Bird Flu: Communicating the Risk (Perspectives in Health, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2005) full text | link | also in Spanish “Gripe aviar: cómo comunicar el riesgo” | link
  • The Flu Pandemic Preparedness Snowball (October, 2005)
  • The Dilemma of Personal Tamiflu Stockpiling (January, 2006)
  • Bird Flu, Pandemic Flu, and Poultry Markets: Playing Ostrich or Talking Turkey (May 2006)
  • What to Say When a Pandemic Looks Imminent: Messaging for WHO Phases Four and Five (March, 2007)
• Relevant Papers and Articles
  • Scientifically Sound Pandemic Risk Communication Baruch Fischhoff 12/05
  • Treating the Public with Risk Communication Baruch Fischhoff 1987 .pdf
  • Pandemic Influenza—Past, Present, Future: Communicating Today Based on the Lessons from the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic (PDF - 1.72 MB) from pandemicflu.gov (link)
• UN planning
  • Avian Flu and the Media
    • United Nations, Avian Flu and the Media - Discussion hosted by the UN Foundation New York, 26 April 2006
• CDC planning
  • CDC’s Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Guide - Pandemic Influenza, Aug 2006 188 page .pdf

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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.

Run a live search of PubMed for Influenza in Birds, Tamiflu, Influenza A Virus

• Establishment of multiple sublineages of H5N1 influenza virus in Asia: Implications for pandemic control PNAS, www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0511120103
• Are US flu death figures more PR than science? (BMJ 2005;331:1412 (10 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1412)
  Read what others have said about the article
• The Origins of Pandemic Influenza — Lessons from the 1918 Virus (Belshe, R NEJM, Volume 353:2209–2211 Nov 24, 2005) )
• 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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Spanish Flu 1918–19

Links to articles, books and scientific research on the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Run a live search of PubMed for 1918 influenza pandemic, Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype

• Wikipedia entry for the 1918 flu pandemic
• FluWiki page on the 1918 Pandemic
• Dr. Taubenberger Answers at FluWiki March 2006. JKT clarifies Protocol in Sequencing the 1918 Pandemic Strains and resulting knowledge in Pathophysiology of Influenza. Identity not validated.
• 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.
• Listening to WWI: The War at Home. The 1918 Influenza Pandemic Voices from the Past Series, Text and Audio remembrances of the Spanish Flu
• 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 Emerging Bird Flu Pandemic 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)
• 1918 Flu & Homeopathy How Homeopathic was effective in 1918, by Dr. Abdul Gafar from India
• 1918 Flu in Geneva, Switzerland L’épidémie de grippe espagnole de 1918 à Genève, article in French, compiled from various historic documents by the Armies Web Site. Interesting information on panic, social and economic disruption in Geneva, contradictory laws/orders by the authorities. Possible explanation that the elders were spared because of previous acquired immunity with the 1889–1891 flu epidemic.
• 1918 Testimonials Memories of FluWikians and their ancestors on the 1918 Spanish Flu - Work in progress
• FluWeb Historical Influenza Database Searchable archive of historical data regarding past influenza epidemics, including the 1889–91 and 1918–19 pandemics and other epidemics. Includes access to the comprehensive 1920 monograph “Pandemic of Influenza”, published by the British Ministry of Health. Developed and hosted by the School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Australia.
• Early Spanish Flu Victim Letters home from a soldier medic at ground zero, Camp Funston, Kansas.

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Black Death

The Bubonic plague or ‘Black Death’ is thought to have decimated the populations of mediaeval Europe.

Run a live search of PubMed for Bubonic Plague or Black Death in Humans

• Wikipedia entry: Bubonic plague
• Wikipedia entry: Black Death
• The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (1350). Takes place in Florence in 1348, during the outbreak of the “Black Death”, widely believed to be Bubonic Plague.
• A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1722). A fictional first hand account of the London outbreak of 1665.
• La peste by Albert Camus (1947). An existentialist novel centered around an outbreak of the plague.
• The Great Mortality An Intimate History of the Black Death, by John Kelly. NY: Harper Collins.

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Swine Flu

Run a live search of PubMed for Swine Flu, Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype

• Swine Influenza A Outbreak, Fort Dix, New Jersey, 1976
• Reflections on the 1976 Swine Flu Vaccination Program
• 1976: Fear of a great plague
• The Sky is Falling: An Analysis of the Swine Flu Affair of 1976
• The Influenza A/New Jersey (Swine Flu) Vaccine and Guillain-Barré Syndrome: The Arguments for a Causal Association
• chances for a 1976 pandemic

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SARS 2003–04

Run a live search of PubMed for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, SARS Virus

• SARS & Homeopathy Details of SARS with Homeopathic Possibilities by Dr. Abdul Gafar from India
• Behind The Mask, How the World Survived SARS

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Upcoming Conferences and Transcripts

• Business Preparedness for Pandemic: A Leadership Summit
  Presented by Harvard Business School Publishing and Harvard Health Publications/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachsuetts, May 14–16, 2007

• Workshop on Modeling Community Containment
  The Role of Community-Based Mitigation Strategies During an Influenza Pandemic, Washington, DC October 25–26, 2006
• Preparing for Pandemic Influenza: The Avian Dimension and Other Emerging Threats
  The Lancet Aia Medical Forum 2006, Suntec, Singapore, May 3–4, 2006
• First International Conference on Avian Influenza in Humans
  Pasteur Institute, Paris, France June 29 & 30, 2006, Abstract submission: May 29, 2006
• Business Planning for Pandemic Influenza Summit Feb 14-15
• THE AVIAN FLU: MYTHS VS. REALITIES
  • INTERACTION AND CARE INTERNATIONAL HOST TOWN HALL MEETING MONDAY, DECEMBER 12 MIAMI, FL
• Council on Foreign Relations Conference: Global Threat Of Pandemic Influenza - transcript – Nov 16,2005
• WHO/FAO/OIE/World Bank(IBRD) meeting on avian influenza and human pandemic influenza Date: 7–9 November 2005,Location: Geneva, Switzerland
• Global Pandemic Readiness: An International Meeting of Ministers of Health
  Ottawa, 24–25 Oct 2005 · agenda · news releases · announcement
• 2nd joint WHO/EC workshop on pandemic influenza preparedness planning
  Copenhagen, 24–26 October 2005
• Pandemic Influenza California Update 2005
  October 6, 2005, A Live Satellite Teleconference · conference program

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News articles

• as this section could grow very large we should consider rather keeping news on the various existing flu news blogs or post refs to http://www.connotea.org/tag/AvianFlu
• 2008: Summary of News Stories
• 2009: Summary of News Stories
• 2010: Summary of News Stories

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Recursos en español

• http://espanol.pandemicflu.gov
• CDC: Influenza aviana Información acerca de la gripe aviana del CDC, el Centro para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades
• Organización Mundial de Salud (OMS)
  • Gripe aviar La gripe aviar («gripe del pollo») y la importancia de su transmisión al ser humano
• GripeAviaria.com.ar El sitio que reune en un mismo lugar toda la información sobre la gripe aviar en español existente en Internet. Ya sean noticias, papers, abstracts, artículos o investigaciones científicas, tanto los usuarios comunes como los veterinarios y los profesionales de la salud encontrarán en GripeAviaria.com.ar todo lo necesario para mantenerse actualizado sobre esta nueva amenaza para la humanidad.
• Artículos biomédicos de gripe aviar Se listan los últimos artículos en medline sobre Gripe Aviar, con abstract en el idioma del artículo e interfaz en castellano con información extendida sobre el artículo
• Recursos en Seattle y King County, en español

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