In Malaysia, Arkanoid Legent does wonderful work as a flu blogger, and as the old year fades away, he is already far ahead of us North Americans. Click through to see reports on a C. diff outbreak in Canada (scooped on my own turf!), more dengue deaths in Pakistan, and worries about malaria in Zimbabwe. Thank you again, Arkanoid Legent, for your steady, patient coverage.
News Gatherers
- Bird Flu (NewsNow)
- Chikungunya (NewsNow)
- Cholera (NewsNow)
- CIDRAP: Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
- Coalition Against Typhoid
- Dengue (NewsNow)
- DengueMap
- E. coli outbreaks (NewsNow)
- Google.org Dengue Trends
- H5N1 (NewsNow)
- HIV/AIDS (NewsNow)
- IRIN
- Malaria (NewsNow)
- NDM-1 (Google News)
- ProMED-mail
- Risk = Hazard + Outrage: The Peter M. Sandman Risk Communication Website
- Tuberculosis (NewsNow)
- Vaccine News Daily
- Virology News
Curated by South African virologist Ed Rybicki.
Hot Zone Sources
- AllAfrica.com: Health and Medicine
- ANTARA News
- Bangkok Post
- Canada Haiti Action Network
- Greater Mekong Subregion: Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
- Haiti Libre
Haitian news in English and French. - Haiti Rewired
- Haiti: Ministry of Public Health and Population Documentation
- Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection
- Hong Kong Government News
- Hoy Digital (Dominican Republic)(español)
- Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
- Jakarta Globe
- Jakarta Post
- List of Newspapers
- Mainichi Daily News
- Haiti MPHISE
- News in English, Kidon Media-Link
- Online Newspapers
- PAHO Haiti Emergency Blog
- Partners In Health
- Reuters AlertNet
- Thanh Nien Daily (Vietnam)
- The Nation (Thailand)
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- VIVAnews.com (Indonesia)
- Xinhua (China)
Bloggers
- A Time's Memory
Offers highly detailed surveys of news stories and scientific reports. - Aetiology
Excellent medical blogging. - Arkanoid Legent
Excellent blog based in Malaysia - Avian Flu Diary
Excellent news coverage and even better analysis. - Dying in Haiti
A doctor working in Cité Soleil. - End the Neglect (Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases)
- Flu News Blog
- Global DIRT (Disaster Immediate Response Team)
- Haiti Chery
- Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch (CEPR)
- Haiti: Operational Biosurveillance
- Laurie Garrett
- Malaria Journal
- Malaria Matters
- NDM-1 Bacteria
- Nigeria Health Watch
- Pandemic Information News
Wide-ranging coverage in several languages, with computer translations of many reports. - Philip Alcabes
- Roger Annis (Haiti)
- Roll Back Malaria
- Rosemary Drisdelle
Expert on parasitic diseases. - Superbug
Maryn McKenna's great blog on antibiotic resistance. - Those Emergency Blues
A Toronto ER nurse blogs from the front lines. - ViroBlogy
Dr. Ed Rybicki at the University of Cape Town - virology blog
Dr. Vincent Racaniello offers expert comment and analysis in posts that non-experts can understand.
Twitter Resources
Forums & Discussions
Technical Sources
- American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
- Biosurveillance
- Canadian Medical Association Journal
- CDC - Dengue
- CIDRAP 10-Point Framework for Pandemic Influenza Business Contingency Planning
- CIDRAP: Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
- CIDRAP: Pandemic Puzzle Vaccine Series and Other News
- CIDRAP: Promising Practices
- Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
- Doctors Without Borders
- Emerging Health Threats Forum
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Eurosurveillance
- FluWeb Historical Influenza Database
- Global Viral Forecasting
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
- Malaria Journal
- MalariaWorld
- OIE World Animal Health Information Database
- PLoS Currents: Influenza
- PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
- ProMED-mail
- Public Library of Science
- Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
- Seismoblog (deutsche)
- Statista.com
Useful site for a range of statistical information. - The Lancet Infectious Diseases
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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
- 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
General International
Recent Posts
- CIDRAP: Debate on H5N1 death rate and missed cases continues
- Haiti: Dr. Paul Farmer warns of coming surge in cholera cases
- Nigeria to probe Lassa fever outbreak
- H5N1 controversy: The debate continues
- WHO: A new H5N1 case in Egypt
- XDR-TB: Time to bring back sanatoria?
- Paraguay: Second dengue death of 2012
- Vietnam: Human trials for H5N1 vaccine successful
- Racaniello: Evidence for influenza H5N1 infections in humans
- Australia: Travellers warned to guard against dengue fever
Recent Comments
- V. on Radiation from Fukushima detected off Japan's coast
- caia on Radiation from Fukushima detected off Japan's coast
- caia on Mystery US outbreak prompts further tests
- mike on UN peacekeepers not about to leave Haiti
- Antoine Danchin on H5N1: Looking back at 2003-04
- Antoine Danchin on Pakistan/India/Bangladesh: Why so few human H5N1 cases?
- caia on US: Super Bowl the source of measles outbreak
- JimmyJames on Canada: School closures and the H1N1 pandemic
- caia on US: 150 at U of South Florida to be tested for tuberculosis
- Miriam on Thinking about the Auckland incident
Archives
- February 19, 2012 - February 25, 2012
- February 12, 2012 - February 18, 2012
- February 5, 2012 - February 11, 2012
- January 29, 2012 - February 4, 2012
- January 22, 2012 - January 28, 2012
- January 15, 2012 - January 21, 2012
- January 8, 2012 - January 14, 2012
- January 1, 2012 - January 7, 2012
- December 25, 2011 - December 31, 2011
- December 18, 2011 - December 24, 2011
Read The Tyee
February 2012
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WHO Sites
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization
- Pan American Health Organization
- WHO Artemisinin-Resistance Containment Project
- WHO Home Page
- WHO African Region
- WHO Confirmed Human Cases of Avian Influenza A(H5N1)
- WHO Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response
- WHO Podcasts
- WHO Situation updates - Avian influenza
- WHO Southeast Asian Region
- WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record
- WHO | Chagas disease
- WHO | Cholera
- WHO | Dengue
- WHO | Diarrhoea
- WHO | Emerging diseases
- WHO | Epidemiology
- WHO | Infectious diseases
- WHO | Malaria
- WHO | Poverty
- WHO | Social determinants of health
- WHO | Tuberculosis
- WHO/WPRO-Human Avian Influenza A/H5N1 Cases by Onset Date
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My Health-Related Articles
- 2012: Have We Created an Incurable TB?
- 2011: Timid Bureaucrats Can Be Lethal
- 2011: The Ten Most Underreported Health Stories of 2011
- 2011: How We Helped Pave Haiti's Road to Cholera Hell
- 2011: Haiti's Misery, Our Disgrace
- 2010: Who's Reporting on Haiti's Cholera?
- 2009: What Bird Flu Can Teach Us about Swine Flu
- 2009: The Coming Struggle over Swine Flu Vaccine
- 2009: Surfing a Swine Flu News Tsunami
- 2009: Plagues and Their Uses
- 2009: How the Media Blew the Flu
- 2009: How Good is the BC Pandemic Plan?
- 2009: Health Minister Aglukkaq's Road Show
- 2008: Sick Politics
- 2008: Indonesia's Bird Flu Blackout
- 2008: Dying for the Rich
- 2007: Where I Get the Latest 'Nasties' on the Avian Flu
- 2006: Worst Christmas Flu Ever
- 2006: The Flu Pandemic and You: A Canadian Guide
- 2006: Stopped Worrying about Avian Flu?
- 2006: Marketing Pandemic
- 2006: Lessons of the Barbary Plague
- 2005: Blogging the Pandemic
- 2005: Avian Flu Gets Our Attention
- 2005: Avian Flu Bloggers Getting Alarmed
- 2005: A Disaster to Make Hurricane Katrina Look Miniscule
- 2004: How Bad Can a Flu Be?
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.
