Mike Coston has an enviable talent for pulling together information from many different sources (including his own posts over past years) and presenting a concise summary of what's happening and why it matters. Case in point: Bird Flu Reports From Nepal. Get out of here and go read it.
News Gatherers
- ABYZ News Links
Extensive links to news sources worldwide. - Bird Flu (NewsNow)
- Chikungunya (NewsNow)
- Cholera (NewsNow)
- CIDRAP: Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
- Coronavirus (NewsNow)
- Dengue (NewsNow)
- E. coli outbreaks (NewsNow)
- Ebola (NewsNow)
- Encephalitis (NewsNow)
- H5N1 (NewsNow)
- H7N9 (NewsNow)
- H7N9: New Avian Influenza
- Hand-foot-mouth disease (NewsNow)
- HealthMap: The Disease Daily
- HIV/AIDS (NewsNow)
- Influenza (NewsNow)
- IRIN
- Malaria (NewsNow)
- Marburg fever (NewsNow)
- NDM-1 (Google News)
- Nodding syndrome (NewsNow)
- ProMED-mail
- ReliefWeb
- ReliefWeb Updates
- Risk = Hazard + Outrage: The Peter M. Sandman Risk Communication Website
- Tuberculosis (NewsNow)
- Vaccine News Daily
- Virology News
Curated by South African virologist Ed Rybicki.
Bloggers
- A Time's Memory
Offers highly detailed surveys of news stories and scientific reports. - Aetiology
Excellent medical blogging. - Avian Flu Diary
Excellent news coverage and even better analysis. - Big Medicine
- Blog de Medicina Cubana (español)
- blog.AIDS.gov
- Body Horrors
- Contagions
- Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention
- Dying in Haiti
A doctor working in Cité Soleil. - E. coli Blog
Surveillance & analysis on E. coli news & outbreaks - End the Neglect (Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases)
- Face of the Matter
- Haiti MPHISE
- Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch (CEPR)
- Haiti Resilience System
- Infection Landscapes
- Information Security Biweekly (H7N9)
- Journalist's Corner
Science blog in China - Laurie Garrett
- My Health Beijing
- Nigeria Health Watch
- Novel Coronavirus NCOV
- Pandemic Information News
Wide-ranging coverage in several languages, with computer translations of many reports. - PLOS Public Health
- Random Analytics
Shane Granger crunches the H7N9 numbers. - Roll Back Malaria
- Rosemary Drisdelle
Expert on parasitic diseases. - Scott McPherson
A Flublogian old-timer, happily returned. - Superbug
Maryn McKenna's great blog on antibiotic resistance. - The Bird Flu Report
Daily news about avian influenza - ViroBlogy
Dr. Ed Rybicki at the University of Cape Town - Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca
A Scoop.it site with many expert contributors. - virology blog
Dr. Vincent Racaniello offers expert comment and analysis in posts that non-experts can understand. - Virology Down Under: H7N9
Dr. Ian Mackay's page.
Forums & Discussions
Twitter Resources
- #Cholera
- #coronavirus
- #Dengue
- #Ebola
- #Ebola Updates
- #Ecoli
- #Encephalitis
- #EV71
- #H5N1
- #H7N9
- #Haiti
- #HIV
- #Leptospirosis
- #Malaria
- #Noddingdisease
Obsolete term for nodding syndrome, but still widely used - #Noddingsyndrome
- #outbreak
- #Tuberculosis
- #WestNileVirus
- FluTrackers
- Lisa Schnirring (CIDRAP)
- Vincent Racaniello
- WHO
- Arkanoid Legent
- CDC
- CIDRAP
- Commonground at Pandemic News
- DokteCoffee
- Dr. John A. Carroll
- Haiti Libre
- Hand-foot-mouth disease (#HFMD)
- Helen Branswell
- MappyHealth
Tracks tweets on specific diseases - Maryn McKenna
- Michael Coston
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
- Nigeria Health Watch
- Ronan Kelly
- Treyfish (Tom Watkins)
- WHO/PAHO EOC
Journals and Technical Sources
- Acta Tropica
- BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
- Canadian Medical Association Journal
- CDC
- Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters
- Chinese Medical Association (English)
- CIDRAP: Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
- CIDRAP: Public Health Practices
- Clinical Infectious Diseases
- CMAJ Open
- Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
- Doctors Without Borders
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- epidemic
Highly useful site at the University of Edinburgh. - Eurosurveillance
- Global Health Governance
- Global Viral
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
- ISARIC
International Severe Respiratory Infection Consortium - Journal of the American Medical Association
- Malaria Journal
- MalariaWorld
- mBio
- PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
- PLOS ONE: H5N1
- ProMED-mail
- Public Library of Science
- Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
- The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Free registration required
Public Health Agencies & Health Departments
- ASEAN Plus Three Countries: Information Centre on Emerging Infectious Diseases
- BC Centre for Disease Control
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- CDC - Avian Flu
- Center for Public Communication, Secretariat General of the Ministry of Health
In Bahasa Indonesia - Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Direcção-Geral da Saúde (Portugal)
- European Centre for Disease Control
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC)
- Offlu: OIE/FAO Network of Expertise on Avian Influenza
- OIE - World Organisation for Animal Health
- Pan American Health Organization Avian Influenza (English, español e português)
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- Robert Koch Institute (Germany)
- Saudia Arabian Ministry of Health
- Smittskyddsinstitutet (Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control)
English-language version of the site. - Uganda Ministry of Health
Recent Posts
- WHO on the 17th Saudi MERS death
- Dominican Republic on alert over suspected H1N1 case
- Hong Kong: New MERS cases "closely monitored"
- China: Scientists make new H7N9 claim
- Alabama: Now 10 cases, 1 death linked to H1N1 (updated)
- ECDC: Disease threats report for week 20
- CIDRAP: New MERS-CoV case reported as puzzles persist
- Live-animal markets and H7N9
- H7N9: Clinical findings in 111 cases
- CIDRAP: Alabama officials probe respiratory illness cluster
Recent Comments
- charlie on CIDRAP: Alabama officials probe respiratory illness cluster
- Ironorehopper on CIDRAP: Alabama officials probe respiratory illness cluster
- lynnbozeman@icould.com on Mysterious respiratory illness strikes 7 in Alabama; 2 dead
- charlie on Coston updates the Alabama respiratory cluster story
- charlie on India: Respiratory disease & multi-organ failure cases on the rise
- Aileen Wyse on Tunisia: MERS death confirmed (confusingly)
- Dennis H. Clarke on Bird flu outbreak costs China's poultry industry US$65b
- Crof on How the Saudis are communicating MERS
- Dr. Robert Baker on How the Saudis are communicating MERS
- Crof on Saudi Arabia: A little more on MERS from Dammam
Archives
- May 19, 2013 - May 25, 2013
- May 12, 2013 - May 18, 2013
- May 5, 2013 - May 11, 2013
- April 28, 2013 - May 4, 2013
- April 21, 2013 - April 27, 2013
- April 14, 2013 - April 20, 2013
- April 7, 2013 - April 13, 2013
- March 31, 2013 - April 6, 2013
- March 24, 2013 - March 30, 2013
- March 17, 2013 - March 23, 2013
Read The Tyee
May 2013
Traffic
MERS Resources
- #MERS
- Arab News
- CDC Coronavirus
- Coronavirus (Google News)
- Coronavirus (NewsNow)
- Doctor KSA
English-language Saudi medical website - La Voix du Nord (français)
- Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health corona page
- Saudi Gazette
- Virology Down Under on MERS-CoV
Virologist Dr. Ian Mackay tracks the coronavirus. - WHO coronavirus updates
H7N9 Resources
- #H7N9
Very current - CDC H7N9 Resources
- CIDRAP H7N9 Avian Influenza Page
A very useful resource - ECDC on Avian Influenza A(H7N9)
- FluTrackers H7N9 Outbreak Tracking
Excellent coverage, including translated reports - GISAID
- Google News on H7N9
Generally useful - H7N9 (NewsNow)
- Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection
Current and reliable; also check HKSAR releases on same page - Hong Kong Government Health News
Good coverage of China as well as Hong Kong - Shanghai Daily
- Shanghai Daily H7N9 page
- South China Morning Post
Subscription required for extended visits - Virology Down Under on H7N9
Excellent site by Australian virologist Ian M. Mackay - WHO H7N9 Page
- Xinhua H7N9 reports
Hot Zone Sources
- AllAfrica.com: Health and Medicine
- Arab News
- Bangkok Post
- Beijing Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index
- Cambodia Daily
- Cambodia Ministry of Health
- CDC FluView (US)
- China Daily
- Dominican Republic Ministry of Public Health (español)
- Dr. Beat Richner, Kantha Bopha Hospitals, Cambodia
- European Centre for Disease Control
- Google Flu Trends
- Hablemos Press
Dissident Cuban news source. - Haiti Epidemic Advisory System (HEAS)
- Haiti Libre
Haitian news in English and French. - Haiti: Ministry of Public Health & Population
- Haiti: Ministry of Public Health and Population: Cholera reports
- Havens of Hope (nodding syndrome)
NGO fighting the syndrome in Uganda - Public Health England (formerly Health Protection Agency)
- Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection
- Hong Kong Government News
- Hope for Humans
NGO working against nodding syndrome - Hoy Digital (Dominican Republic)(español)
- Jakarta Globe
- Jakarta Post
- Japan Times Online
- Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance
- Monitor (Uganda)
- New Vision (Uganda)
- News in English, Kidon Media-Link
- Nodding Syndrome
Ugandan government information site - PAHO Hispaniola cholera page
- Partners In Health
- Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia)
- Radio Dabanga (Sudan)
- Reuters AlertNet
- Saigon Giai Phong (Vietnam)
- Shanghai Daily
- Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau
- South China Morning Post
- Thanh Nien Daily (Vietnam)
- Think Africa Press
- Times of India
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- UNHCR
- UNITEDengue
- Xinhua (China)
WHO Sites
- Home page, World Health Organization
- Influenza at human-animal interface - Monthly Risk Assessment Summary
WHO reports on new human H5N1 cases. - WHO Bulletin
- WHO coronavirus updates
- WHO H7N9 page
- WHO Pan American Health Organization
- WHO Confirmed Human Cases of Avian Influenza A(H5N1)
- WHO Disease Outbreak News
- WHO Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response
- WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record
- WHO Western Pacific Region
Español
- Argentina: Ministerio de Salud
- Blog de Medicina Cubana
- Chile: Ministerio de Salud
- Colombia: Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social
- El Universal (México)
- España: Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales, e Igualdad
- Honduras: Secretaría de Salud
- México: Secretaría de Salud
- Nicaragua: Ministerio de Salud
- Organización Panamericana de la Salud
- Panamá: Ministerio de Salud
- Paraguay: Ministerio de Salud Pública y Bienestar Social
- Perú: Ministerio de Salud
- Prensa Latina
- Prensa Latina (Salud)
- Salud CiberCuba
- Venezuela: Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Salud
Français
General International
My Blogs
- Ask the English Teacher
Questions and answers about English usage. - Bridging the Income Gap
Why inequality is hazardous to your health. - Camila Vallejo in English
Tracking a political phenomenon - H5N1
News and resources about avian flu - Jou Tou and Silk Road Music
About a couple of remarkable Vancouver world-music groups. - Neat Stuff
Serendipitous discoveries around the Web. - On Education
Schools for a civil society. - Pioneers
Blogging the Black pioneers of British Columbia - Sointula
"Place of Harmony"—a remarkable community on BC's central coast. - Write a Novel
An online guide for fiction writers. - Sell Your Nonfiction Book
And use online resources to research, write, and publish it. - Writing Fiction
Advice and suggestions on how to write and sell short stories and fiction. - Writing for the Web
About the surprising new genres emerging on the Web.
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.
