Category Archives: Pandemic
FluView
Great interactive visualization from the CDC, showing ILI reports to date. Click the individual state to be taken directly to the weekly flu report from that state’s Department of Health. Also, note the “Play” feature – this should get even … Continue reading
A Cruel Wind
Pettit, Dorothy A., and Janice Bailie. A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918-1920. Murfreesboro, Tenn.: Timberlane Books, 2008. RC 150.5 .A2 P48 2008 We all know – or think we know – much about the “Great Epidemic” of flu … Continue reading
Contagion: Historical Views of Disease and Epidemic
Interested in historical accounts of diseases and the public health history of epidemics? The Contagion collection, developed by the Harvard University Library Open Collections Program, gives researchers access to a wealth of primary resources, in a format that’s as useful … Continue reading
Thinking like a journalist…
If you were a journalist and needed accurate, authoritative information about the flu, where would you go? Two different resources, it turns out, work well for both journalists and ESM/Disaster Science practicioners. Both offer well-researched and well-written overviews of the … Continue reading
PLoS Influenza page
It’s a conundrum of modern publishing – how to achieve the high standards of “peer-review” in a timely manner. This is a particularly important issue when it comes to public health topics. Take H1N1, for instance. What is the best … Continue reading
Frontloading
I’m away next week, so I won’t be blogging, but this week has been a banner one for interesting items. The National Library of Medicine maintains a collection of more than 30 environmental health websites under the auspices of the … Continue reading
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
While we’re on the topic of open-source public health items, this special supplement to the AMA’s journal “Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness” (June 2009, Vol. 3) is freely available online. Article topics range from public policy (“National Strategy for … Continue reading
Using summer to prepare for a possible H1N1 outbreak on campus
This article, from Inside Higher Ed, is a nice overview of how several colleges and universities are using the summer to better prepare for an outbreak of H1N1 on campus. Seeing this prompted me to investigate what our campus has … Continue reading
Swine Flu Resources Round-up
It’s been interesting to watch publishers open up their H1N1 articles and resources to the general public. (Disclaimer: I know that part is only interesting to me as a librarian. But the question remains: Is the future of publishing a … Continue reading
Biographies of Disease: Influenza
This title, from a set we’re collecting, caught my eye. From the Series Foreward: Every disease has a story to tell: about how it started long ago and began to disable or even take the lives of its innocent victims, … Continue reading