H5N1: Another break

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November 06, 2008

Another break

On Friday morning I leave for Toronto to give a webwriting workshop on Saturday. I'll be back on Sunday afternoon, and posting here by Sunday evening. In the meantime, check the H5N1 bloggers to keep up with events.

November 06, 2008 at 09:18 PM | Permalink

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A Pandemic Chronicle
SophiaZoe always has a personal and insightful response to H5N1 issues.
A Time's Memory
Offers highly detailed surveys of news stories and scientific reports.
Aetiology
Not many H5N1 posts, but always worth reading for her expertise, common sense, and sense of humour.
An English Teacher Under Quarantine in South Korea
Avian Flu Diary
Excellent news coverage and even better analysis.
Bird Flu Information Corner (Indonesia/Japan)
Invaluable coverage of H5N1 and H1N1 in Indonesia, with translations from local media reports.
Bird Flu Manual
Emphasis on business planning for pandemic.
Chen Qi - A Morning Fresh Breeze (English/Chinese)
Excellent reports on H5N1 and related health issues from a blogger in the Netherlands.
Effect Measure
Required reading.
Egyptian Chronicles
Good coverage of Egyptian flu news, and Zeinobia is fun to read on any topic.
Fergus On Flu (BBC)
Flu News Network
Good coverage of H1N1 reports.
Get Ready for Flu (American Public Health Association)
Low-key, readable, informative.
H1N1 Alliance™
H1N1 Swine Flu Outbreak 2009 Blog (Singapore)
Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog
A one-off from the US department of health and human services. Worth exploring.
Pandemic Information News
Wide-ranging coverage in several languages, with computer translations of many reports.
Penumbra Pandemia (English/Finnish)
Good perspectives from a longtime flubie.
Philip Alcabes: Challenging myths of health, behavior, and risk
Always worth reading, Dr. Alcabes is a public-health expert with a sharp eye for the links between pandemics and politics.
Preparedness and Response
Thoughtful and informative.
Recombinomics Commentary
Comment from a longtime H5N1-watcher.
Scott McPherson
Flublogia's infotech wizard, with an eye on H5N1 and other emerging diseases.
Superbug (Maryn McKenna on MRSA)
Excellent insights into the whole public-health system from a different point of view.
Swine Flu CEO
Swine Flu in Australia
An important new blog with emphasis on analyzing rates and trends in the spread and impact of H1N1.
virology blog
Dr. Vincent Racaniello offers expert comment and analysis in posts that non-experts can understand.
What's new in the world of pandemic and avian flu? (CARE)

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Ask the English Teacher
Questions and answers about English usage.
Books and Writers
Literary news and reviews
Bridging the Income Gap
Why inequality is hazardous to your health.
Climate Wars
H5N1
News and resources about avian flu
Jou Tou and Silk Road Music
About a couple of remarkable Vancouver world-music groups.
Neat Stuff
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On Education
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Pioneers
Blogging the Black pioneers of British Columbia
Prototype
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Sointula
"Place of Harmony"—a remarkable community on BC's central coast.
The View from Seymour
Parochial politics in a Vancouver suburb.
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Write Your Nonfiction Book
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Some of My Books

The Fall of the Republic
In a parallel timeline, 1990s America discovers the chronoplanes: parallel worlds at different points in history.
Rogue Emperor
The hijacking of the Roman Empire, 100 AD, by 21st-century Christian fundamentalists, in the second of the Chronoplane Wars novels.
The Empire of Time
My first novel, published in 1978, but the last in the Chronoplane Wars trilogy.
Gryphon
"Write a space opera," my editor said. So I did, with some nanotech thrown in.
Tsunami
A companion novel to Icequake, set mostly in California.
Icequake
A disaster thriller (Antarctic ice sheet surges into ocean), dated but still fun.
Eyas
Originally published in 1982, and still the novel I'm most proud of.