Category Archives: Pandemic
Virginia Emergency Operations Plans link
From the VDEM newsletter: Gov. Tim Kaine has approved the Commonwealth of Virginia Emergency Operations Plan Pandemic Influenza Incident Annex VI, now available at http://www.vaemergency.com/library/plans/index.cfm. The annex represents nearly two years of collaboration with many state agencies and provides guidance … Continue reading
Swine Flu meta-pages
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 … Continue reading
Hospital Evacuations
Today’s story should be an earthquake one, given the recent events in Italy, but this story was an interesting link between the flooding in ND and the disaster unfolding in L’Aquila. The WHO marked World Health Day by focusing on … Continue reading
Global Incidents Map
Swinging away from the weather theme for a bit, the Global Incident Map is an interesting visual overview of the various ‘incidents’ that are happening all over the world. The term “incidents” is used broadly; items covered on the main … Continue reading
Using Google Earth to map the spread of viruses
Doing a search for a student recently, I came across this open-access, peer-reviewed journal, the International Journal of Health Geographics. (Read the “About” page for the journal here.) The range of article topics is vast and fascinating – for example: … Continue reading
PandemicFlu.gov
Pandemic flu hasn’t made the news much this winter (although the stock market seems to have caught a bad case of something), but the CDC has collected everything you might ever be interested in on the topic, and put it … Continue reading
Report on States’ Pandemic Preparedness
With the change of administrations in Washington, it seems like a good time to do some evaluation. This report, released this month, gives an assessment of the operating plans the 50 states (as well as DC and the five U.S. … Continue reading
Galveston National Laboratory – new National Biocontainment Lab opens
Having seen actual snow falling as I was on my way in to work this morning (yes, in November, and yes, I live in Richmond!), I’m tempted to just link to the VDEM’s “Get Ready Now for Winter Weather” news … Continue reading
Using Google for the Greater Good
Google has a number of applications, such as Google Docs, that are being put to creative and innovative uses. In the field of public health, for instance, Google Flu Trends uses aggregated search data, combined with IP addresses, to track … Continue reading
Trust for America’s Health
I discovered this organization thanks to a pointer from the HSDL to their October 2008 report entitled, “Germs Go Global: Why Emerging Infectious Diseases Are a Threat to America.” Having just participated in a discussion group on the ethics and … Continue reading