Between last year’s energy crisis, the bad economic news and the Tri-Delts walking into the library in their hippy-chick summer dresses, it’s like we’re back to the 70′s. And now, swine flu…
Dr. Joe Bresee, CDC Influenza Division
Several librarians have put together ‘meta’ pages of resources relating to the outbreak (not yet an official pandemic or even an epidemic), so I won’t try to re-invent the wheel.
Chris Childs, at the University of Iowa’s Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, has put together a Libguide page of Swine Flu information. (This is the type of guide we’ll be moving to for our subject research guides over the summer, so if you are a user of my ESM Research Guide, this is what you’ll see in the fall. Good stuff.)
The National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes for Health run Medline, a comprehensive public health database. The Swine Flu page here has a lot of CDC information, but also links to refereed (peer-reviewed) articles from the Pubmed database. They have also compiled a “Specialized Information Services” page on the environmental health and toxicology aspects of the flu.
View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map
This report, from a commercial investment research analysis company, compares this outbreak to SARS and other influenza outbreaks, and focuses on the [possible] economic effects of this particular flu.
Finally, I’ve referenced this site before, so I’ll reference it again: the CDC has a great “Pandemic Influenza” site that links to many resources for planning for and dealing with an outbreak.
Stay well out there. Let’s keep this in the category of “live drill” rather than “real thing”. Wash your hands, don’t touch your face, stay home if you are sick…