On its Travel Health Notices page, the CDC has posted a Warning Level 3 for Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone: "CDC urges all US residents to avoid nonessential travel to Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone because of an unprecedented out of Ebola." Click through to read the details.
Key Sites
- Avian Flu Diary
Reliable, knowledgeable, always in touch. - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The major American health agency. - Chikungunya (Google News)
Constantly updated reports. - CIDRAP
The site of record for infectious disease news. - Ebola (Google News)
The most and newest updates available. - European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Essential. - FluTrackers
Covering infectious diseases since 2006. - H7N9 (Google News)
Constantly updated reports. - Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection
The exemplary public health agency. - Medecins Sans Frontieres
The commandos of global health. - Saudi Arabia: MOH Command and Control Center
Most reliable source about MERS. - VDU's blog
Dr. Ian Mackay's smart take on events. - World Health Organization
The authority.
News Gatherers
- ABYZ News Links
Extensive links to news sources worldwide. - Africa Cholera Surveillance Network
- Bird Flu (NewsNow)
- Cholera (NewsNow)
- CIDRAP: Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
- Dengue (NewsNow)
- Dengue (Tersee)
- Dengue Virus Net
- Encephalitis (NewsNow)
- FluTrackers
A key resource. - Global Health Middle East
- Global Polio Eradication Initiative
- H5N1 (NewsNow)
- H7N9 (NewsNow)
- Hand-foot-mouth disease (NewsNow)
- HealthMap: The Disease Daily
- HIV/AIDS (NewsNow)
- Humanosphere
Global health & the fight against poverty - Influenza (NewsNow)
- Influenza Virus Net
- IRIN
- Malaria (NewsNow)
- Marburg fever (NewsNow)
- Measles (NewsNow)
- Medscape Infectious Diseases
Free registration required. - National Travel Health Network and Centre (UK)
- NDM-1 (Google News)
- Nodding syndrome (NewsNow)
- Outbreak News Today
- Outbreakfile
- Pacific Malaria Initiative Support Centre
Malaria news & resources - Poultry Site Avian Flu News
- ProMED-mail
- Quandl
Remarkable database of worldwide vital statistics. - ReliefWeb
- ReliefWeb Updates
- Risk = Hazard + Outrage: The Peter M. Sandman Risk Communication Website
- Stop the Hunger
Malnutrition and starvation around the world, in real time. - The Conversation: Health & Medicine
Timely articles by academics in their fields of expertise. - Tuberculosis (NewsNow)
- UN System Influenza Coordination: Avian & Pandemic Influenza News Pouch
- Vaccine Nation
- Vaccine News Daily
- Virology News
Curated by South African virologist Ed Rybicki. - World Newspapers
Extensive list of media, by nation. - Worldometers
Global health statistics in real time.
WHO Sites
- Home page, World Health Organization
- Influenza at human-animal interface - Monthly Risk Assessment Summary
WHO reports on new human H5N1 cases. - WHO African Regional Office
- 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
Bloggers
- A Time's Memory
Offers highly detailed surveys of news stories and scientific reports. - Aetiology
Excellent medical blogging. - Arkanoid Legent
Flublogia's reliable source in Malaysia - Avian Flu Diary
Excellent news coverage and even better analysis. - Big Medicine
- Blog de Medicina Cubana (español)
- blog.AIDS.gov
- Body Horrors
- China Medical News
Coverage of medicine and health issues in China. - Contagions
- Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention
- Cuba Dengue
Cuban dissident site with posts in Spanish and English - Dying in Haiti
A doctor working in Cité Soleil. - E. coli Blog
Surveillance & analysis on E. coli news & outbreaks - Emerging and Re-emerging infectious diseases in South Asian countries
A Nepali epidemiologist currently working in Seoul. - End the Neglect (Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases)
- epidemi
Posts in English and Norwegian - epidemic
Excellent technical blog on viral diseases. - Global Health Blog
- Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch (CEPR)
- Health Intelligence
- HICprevent
Blog of Hospital Infection Control & Prevention - Infection Landscapes
- Information Security Biweekly (H7N9)
- Laurie Garrett
- Maia Majumder, Mens et Manus
- MRSAtopic
- My Health Beijing
- Nigeria Health Watch
- Non solo influenza
Italian-language blog on influenza and other infectious diseases. - Novel Infectious Diseases
- Outbreak News Today
- PLOS Public Health
- Random Analytics
Shane Granger crunches the H7N9 numbers. - Roll Back Malaria
- Rosemary Drisdelle
Expert on parasitic diseases. - Safe Drinking Water Blog
Michael J. McGuire on water quality. - Shots
National Public Radio health blog - Superbug
Maryn McKenna's great blog on antibiotic resistance. - The Bifurcated Needle
Blog of the Center for Health Security at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. - The Bird Flu Report
Daily news about avian influenza - The Outbreak
Elegant and informative blog in Toronto. - This Day in Water History
Very interesting historical blog. - 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
Virologist Dr. Ian Mackay's blog
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
- MEDICC Review: International Journal of Cuban Health and Medicine
- PLOS Currents Outbreaks
- PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
- PLOS ONE: H5N1
- ProMED-mail
- Public Library of Science
- Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
- The Lancet
- The Lancet Global Health
- The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Free registration required - The Lancet Respiratory Diseases
- Valley Fever Center for Excellence (U of Arizona
Public Health Agencies & Health Departments
- ASEAN Plus Three Countries: Information Centre on Emerging Infectious Diseases
- BC Centre for Disease Control
- California Department of Public Health
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Caribbean Public Health Agency
- Center for Public Communication, Secretariat General of the Ministry of Health
In Bahasa Indonesia - Centers for Disease Control (US)
- Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Danish Health and Medicines Authority
- Direcção-Geral da Saúde (Portugal)
- European Centre for Disease Control
- Folkhälsomyndigheten (Public Health Agency of Sweden)
Launched January 1, 2014; this is the English page. - Liberia Ministry of Health & Social Welfare
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC)
- National Institutes of Health
- 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
- Qatar Supreme Council of Health
- Robert Koch Institute (Germany)
- Saudia Arabian Ministry of Health
- Uganda Ministry of Health
- World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Avian Influenza portal
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
Recent Posts
- Plague and climate
- Ebola in Liberia: Two doctors clash over vaccine trials
- Burden of C. difficile infection in the United States
- Dr. Sabeti and Ebola data release (updated)
- Hong Kong: CHP reports two new H7N9 cases in Guangdong
- Ebola in the US: More on Nina Pham
- Saudi Arabia: The February MERS numbers
- Measles outbreak spreads to Sweden
- Saudi Arabia: Seven new MERS cases, one death as of noon March 1
- Pakistan: Officials issue arrest warrants for parents refusing polio vaccine
Recent Comments
- Fred Trout on Dr. Oxford on Ebola as an aerosol virus
- Crof on Dr. Craig Spencer on the politics of Ebola
- Fred Trout on Dr. Craig Spencer on the politics of Ebola
- slovenia on Saudi Arabia: MERS as a human-rights issue
- slovenia on Dr. Craig Spencer on the politics of Ebola
- Crof on Saudi Arabia: 90% of Gulf camels ‘MERS-infected’
- Laila Alsharief on Saudi Arabia: 90% of Gulf camels ‘MERS-infected’
- DrBazUK on Airport Ebola screening 'ineffective' warn scientists
- Dennis H. Clarke on US: California hospital says ‘superbug’ infected seven, may have killed two
- slovenia on US: California hospital says ‘superbug’ infected seven, may have killed two
Archives
- March 1, 2015 - March 7, 2015
- February 22, 2015 - February 28, 2015
- February 15, 2015 - February 21, 2015
- February 8, 2015 - February 14, 2015
- February 1, 2015 - February 7, 2015
- January 25, 2015 - January 31, 2015
- January 18, 2015 - January 24, 2015
- January 11, 2015 - January 17, 2015
- January 4, 2015 - January 10, 2015
- December 28, 2014 - January 3, 2015
Books on Infectious Diseases
David Quammen: Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus
David Quammen: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
John M. Barry: The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Karl Taro Greenfeld: The China Syndrome
How SARS broke out and was hunted down.Marilyn Chase: The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
Seth Mnookin: The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy
Read The Tyee
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Traffic
Ebola Resources
- #Ebola
Very current tweets - #EbolaOutbreak
- #Guinea
- #ISurvivedEbola
- #UNMEER
United Nations Mission for Emergency Ebola Response - Africaguinee.com (français)
- African Platypus: Assisting in the containment of Ebola in Liberia
New on-the-ground blog. - African Union Support to Ebola Outbreak in West Africa (ASEOWA)
- allAfrica.com: Ebola
- allAfrica.com: Ebola news sources
Extensive list of international media. - allAfrica.com: Guinea
- allAfrica.com: Liberia
- Aminata (français)
Guinean news source. - Aujourd'hui en Guinee (français)
- Awareness Times
Sierra Leone news source. - Awoko
Sierra Leonean newspaper. - BBC Africa
- CDC Ebola page
- CIDRAP Ebola links
Frequently updated. - Community Response Group (Sierra Leone)
Excellent local website for information and resources. - Concord Times
Sierra Leone news source. - Daily Observer (Liberia)
- Department of Health UK - Stories
Blog posts by Dr. Dan Cooper, an NHS volunteer in Sierra Leone. - Ebola (Google News)
- Ebola (NewsNow)
- Ebola Coverage
Twitter list by Vox.com. - Ebola Deeply
- Ebola Diaries
Vivid reports and photographs. - Ebola in Liberia
The blog of US Dr. Kwan Kew Lai. - Ebola in West Africa (International SOS)
Excellent news and resources. - Ebola Outbreak in West Africa (Thomson Reuters)
- Ebola Resource Center
Articles from Biomed Central and Springer. - Ebola Response Anthropology Platform
- Ebola Tracker
Useful way to follow international Ebola aid. - Ebola Trending News
- Ebola Virus Info
Facebook page, frequently updated. - Ebola: 24 Twitter resources to follow
Useful list from Vox.com. - ECDC: Ebola and Marburg virus disease
Excellent news and resources. - End Ebola Now
Sierra Leonean-American health education site. - EngAyde
Sierra Leonean website fighting Ebola. - Front Page Africa Online
- Global Ebola Response
UN website; includes UNMEER reports. - Guinea Conakry: WHO Country Office
- Guinee Conakry (français)
- Guineeinformation.fr (français)
- GuineeNews.org (français)
- Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Ebola project
Crowd-sourced cartography of the hot zone. - Le Jour (français)
Guinean newspaper - Liberia Ministry of Health & Social Welfare
- Liberia: WHO Country Office
- Mali Ministry of Health & Public Hygiene (français)
- MSF Ebola blog
From the front lines. - MSF Ebola page
News from the NGO doing the most against Ebola. - MSF Guinea
- Nigeria Health Watch
- Oeil d'Afrique (français)
Daily updates on African news. - Pathogen Perspectives
New Ebola-oriented blog, well-informed and documented. - Pauline Cafferkey's Ebola diary
- PLOS Currents Outbreaks
Peer-reviewed research. - Politico
News and comment from Sierra Leone. - ReliefWeb: Guinea
- Sahelien.com (français)
West African news source. - Sierra Leone - Ebola Emergency
Remarkable posts from a UK doctor. - Sierra Leone Issues
Local Facebook page with occasional Ebola news. - Sierra Leone News Hunters
- Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation
New official website. - Sierra Leone Telegraph
- Sierra Leone: WHO Country Office
- The Ebola Files
Compendium of articles published in Science over more than a decade. - The Guardian on Ebola
News and comment. - The Inquirer (Liberia)
- The Lancet: Ebola Resource Centre
All relevant Lancet articles, freely accessible. - The New Citizen (Sierra Leone)
Many current Ebola reports. - The New Dawn (Liberia)
- The News
Liberian newspaper. - The Patriotic Vanguard
Sierra Leone news & opinion; based in Canada. - UCSC Ebola Portal
- US Embassy Conakry
Frequent updates on Ebola outbreak. - US Embassy Freetown
- US Embassy Monrovia
- USAID Ebola
- West African Health Organization
Also in French and Portuguese. - WHO Ebola page
Essential resource. - WHO Regional Office for Africa
- Wikipedia: 2014 West Africa Ebola Outbreak
- Wikipedia: Ebola virus disease
Basic information resource.
MERS Resources
- #Corona
Arabic-language tweets on MERS; accessible with Google Translate. - #MERS
- Arab News
- CDC MERS page
- CDC: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
- CIDRAP MERS-CoV Resources List
Exhaustive list of links, documents, and literature - Coronavirus (NewsNow)
- Doctor KSA
English-language site on Saudi health issues. - Iranian Ministry of Health (Farsi)
- MERS (Google News)
- MERS charts by Maia Majumder
Frequently updated graphic overview. - MERS CoronaMap
Tracking MERS in real time - MERS Live Contingency Tables
Details of all known MERS cases, compiled by Andrew Rambaut. - MERS (NewsNow)
- SABQ.org (Arabic)
Good online news source. - Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health MERS page (Arabic)
- Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health MERS page (English)
- Saudi Gazette
- Tersee.com (MERS)
- The National (United Arab Emirates)
- WHO coronavirus updates
Chikungunya Resources
- CDC on chikungunya
- Chikungunya (Google News)
- Chikungunya (NewsNow)
- Chikungunya en Cuba (español)
- Chikungunya Virus Net
Both news and scientific articles. - PAHO chikungunya page
Weekly updates plus technical materials.
Hot Zone Sources
- Ahram Online (Egypt)
- AllAfrica.com: Health and Medicine
- Arab News
- Bangkok Post
- Beijing Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index
- Cairo Post
- Cambodia Daily
- Cambodia Ministry of Health
- CDC FluView (US)
- China Daily
- Daily News Egypt
- Delhi Air Pollution: Realtime Air Quality Index
- Dominican Republic Ministry of Public Health (español)
- Dr. Beat Richner, Kantha Bopha Hospitals, Cambodia
- European Centre for Disease Control
- GuineeInformation.fr (français)
- Hablemos Press
Dissident Cuban news source. - Haiti Libre
Haitian news in English and French. - Haiti: Ministry of Public Health & Population
- Haiti: Ministry of Public Health and Population: Cholera & chikungunya reports
- Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection
- Hong Kong Government News
- Hoy Digital (Dominican Republic)(español)
- Jakarta Globe
- Jakarta Post
- Japan Times Online
- Le Jour (Guinea)
- Libyan Ministry of Health
- Monitor (Uganda)
- New Vision (Uganda)
- News in English, Kidon Media-Link
- PAHO chikungunya page
- PAHO Hispaniola cholera page
- 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
- Xinhua (China)
H7N9 Resources
- #H7N9
Very current - CDC H7N9 Resources
- CIDRAP H7N9 Avian Influenza Resources List
Latest case information, health-agency documents, and literature - ECDC on Avian Influenza A(H7N9)
- FluTrackers H7N9 Outbreak Tracking
Excellent coverage, including translated reports - GISAID
- Google News on H7N9
Generally useful - Guangdong Provincial Health & Family Planning Commission
In Chinese; accessible with Google Translate. - 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
- South China Morning Post
Subscription required for extended visits - The Poultry Site
- WHO H7N9 Page
- Xinhua H7N9 reports
Español
- Argentina: Ministerio de Salud
- Blog de Medicina Cubana
- Boletín Epidemiologico del IPK
Weekly Cuban summary of local and international infectious diseases. - Chile: Ministerio de Salud
- Colombia: Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social
- Cuba Cólera
- El Universal (México)
- España: Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales, e Igualdad
- Honduras: Secretaría de Salud
- microBIO
Noticias y curiosidades sobre virus, bacterias y microbiología - 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
- Salud en Cuba
- 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 - Finnish Education Forum
What Finland is doing in the schools. - 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.
