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. - Bird flu (Google News)
- CDC: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The major American health agency. - Chikungunya (Google News)
Constantly updated reports. - Cholera (Google News)
- CIDRAP
The site of record for infectious disease news. - Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention
Excellent US blog. - Ebola (Google News)
The most and newest updates available. - ECDC migrant health topic page
- Efecto Cocuyo: Salud
Health-related reports on a dissident Venezuelan website. - Emerging Infectious Diseases
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Essential. - Eurosurveillance
- Flu in China
- Flu News Europe
Joint ECDC-WHO/Europe site with weekly updates on influenza. - FluTrackers
Covering infectious diseases since 2006. - Goats and Soda: Health
National Public Radio's excellent blog. - H5N1 (Google News)
- H7N9 (Google News)
Constantly updated reports. - Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection
The exemplary public health agency. - Income inequality and health (Google News)
- International Organization for Migration
- IRIN
Important humanitarian news source. - JAMA Internal Medicine
- Lassa fever (Google News)
- Leishmaniasis (Google News)
- Medecins Sans Frontieres
The commandos of global health. - Ministries of Health Worldwide
- Nature News & Comment
- New England Journal of Medicine
- OpenWHO
Free online courses on topics like MERS, occupational health & safety, health communication. - PLOS Currents Outbreaks
- PLOS Medicine
- PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
- ProMED-mail
- ReliefWeb: Fighting Famine in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen
- Reuters AlertNet Humanitarian News
- Reuters Health News
- Saudi Arabia: MOH Command and Control Center
Official MERS data site. - Science News (Health)
- Shots
NPR's health blog. - Singapore NEA: Zika Clusters
- STAT
Excellent medical coverage from The Boston Globe. - The Lancet
- The Lancet Global Health
- The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Free registration required. - The Lancet Planetary Health
- The Lancet Public Health
- The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
- The Overdose Report
Coverage of opioids. - VDU's blog
Dr. Ian Mackay's smart take on events. - Virology Blog
Dr. Vincent Racaniello's blog. - World Health Organization
The authority. - Xinhua health reports
- Yellow fever (Google News)
- Yemen crisis (WHO EMRO)
- Yemen crisis (WHO)
- Zika virus (Google News)
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 Region
- WHO Bulletin
- WHO coronavirus updates
- WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
- WHO European Region
- 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 South-Eastern Region
- WHO Universal Health Coverage Data Portal
- WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record
- WHO Western Pacific Region
News Gatherers
- ABYZ News Links
Extensive links to news sources worldwide. - BBC News Health
- Bird Flu (NewsNow)
- Cholera (NewsNow)
- CIDRAP: Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
- Dengue (NewsNow)
- Dengue Virus Net
- Encephalitis (NewsNow)
- FluTrackers
A key resource. - 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
- Pacific Malaria Initiative Support Centre
Malaria news & resources - Poultry Site Avian Flu News
- PoultryMed
Extensive information on poultry diseases and treatments. - 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. - Syria Deeply
Updates on a continuing public-health disaster. - The Conversation: Health & Medicine
Timely articles by academics in their fields of expertise. - Tuberculosis (NewsNow)
- Virology News
Curated by South African virologist Ed Rybicki. - Worldometers
Global health statistics in real time.
Bloggers
- A Time's Memory
Offers highly detailed surveys of news stories and scientific reports. - Avian Flu Diary
Excellent news coverage and even better analysis. - AvianVirusResearch
Covers viruses in birds, including poultry. - Blog de Medicina Cubana (español)
- Contagions
- Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention
- Cuba Dengue
Cuban dissident site with posts in Spanish and English - Dispatches from Haiti
Dr. John Carroll's extraordinary posts and photos. - 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. - Emerging Infectious Diseases in Nepal
- Emerging Threats and Infectious Diseases (ETID)
- End the Neglect (Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases)
- epidemic
Excellent technical blog on viral diseases. - Geology in Motion
Dr. Susan W. Kieffer, geologist and MacArthur Fellow, on environments that can make us sick. - HICprevent
Blog of Hospital Infection Control & Prevention - Infection Control Tips
Promising new site on a key issue. - Laurie Garrett
- Maia Majumder, Mens et Manus
- Maryn McKenna: Germination
The new blog of a major science writer. - Mosquito Research and Management
Excellent blog by Australian researcher Dr. Cameron Webb. - MRSAtopic
- Nigeria Health Watch
- Outbreak News Today
- Outbreak Watch
Run by Dr. Pranab Chatterjee in Delhi. - PLOS Public Health
- Rosemary Drisdelle
Expert on parasitic diseases. - Shots
National Public Radio health blog - This Day in Water History
Very interesting historical blog. - Uncoating
Blog by virologist Joost Snijder. - 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. - 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
- Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy
Important site for news on antimicrobial resistance and other issues. - 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
- Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance
- 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
- PLOS Pathogens
- ProMED-mail
- Public Library of Science
- Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
- The BMJ
- The Lancet
- The Lancet Global Health
- The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Free registration required - The Lancet Respiratory Diseases
- Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
- 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)
- Centers for Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Welfare Taiwan, ROC
English-language page of the agency's site. - 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. - India: Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
- Liberia Ministry of Health & Social Welfare
- Ministries of Health Worldwide
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC)
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
English-language Finnish site. - 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
Recent Posts
- Nigeria: Undiagnosed outbreak kills 62 in Kogi state
- ECDC: CDTR, week 33
- China confirms H5N6 bird flu outbreak at quail farms in Guizhou province
- Saudi Arabia: One new MERS case on August 18
- When will yellow fever strike Brazil again? Monkeys and mosquitoes hold clues
- WHO EMRO: 522,360 cholera cases in Yemen as of August 17
- CDC Zika virus update, August 18
- India: Assam tops list of most encephalitis deaths
- Philippines: Suspected bird flu cases reported in two Nueva Ecija towns
- Sierra Leone: Flash Update no.3 OCHA West & Central Africa, 17 August 2017
Recent Comments
- Lyne on Indonesia cracks down on gays ... and fuels its HIV epidemic
- Parademic on Finland: Nationwide chicken pox vaccination begins, fifth graders get the jab this autumn
- Parademic on ‘Inferno: A Doctor’s Ebola Story’
- Ronan Kelly on Yemen cholera outbreak: 384,719 cases as of July 22
- skip corrao on Is North America's opioid epidemic a crisis of masculinity?
- Parademic on Canada: BC declares provincial emergency as wildfires spread
- Parademic on Google: Where everybody tells the truth
- Munyole on Climate change, extreme heat and health
- Victor on Kenya cholera outbreak hits dozens at health conference
- Robert Blew on How climate change has plagued the health of nations for centuries
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
Jerry Thompson: Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America
A 9.0 quake will be the biggest public health disaster North America has ever faced.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
Ralph R. Frerichs: Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
The best book I know on the subject.Seth Mnookin: The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy
Sonia Shah: The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
Sonia Shah: Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Highly recommended.
Archives
- August 13, 2017 - August 19, 2017
- August 6, 2017 - August 12, 2017
- July 30, 2017 - August 5, 2017
- July 23, 2017 - July 29, 2017
- July 16, 2017 - July 22, 2017
- July 9, 2017 - July 15, 2017
- July 2, 2017 - July 8, 2017
- June 25, 2017 - July 1, 2017
- June 18, 2017 - June 24, 2017
- June 11, 2017 - June 17, 2017
Read The Tyee
August 2017
Traffic
Hot Zone Sources
- Ahram Online (Egypt)
- AllAfrica.com: Health and Medicine
- AlterPresse Haiti
- Arab News
- Bangkok Post
- Beijing Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index
- Cambodia Daily
- Cambodia Ministry of Health
- China Daily
- Cholera (NewsNow)
- 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
- GARR Haiti (français)
Website dedicated to migration-related issues in Hispaniola. - Hablemos Press
Dissident Cuban news source. - Haiti Libre
Haitian news in English and French. - Haiti on ReliefWeb
Frequent updates on health & humanitarian issues. - Haiti Resilience System
- Haiti: Ministry of Public Health & Population
- Haiti: Ministry of Public Health and Population: Cholera & chikungunya reports
- Haiti: MSPP Facebook page
- Haitian Times
- Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection
- Hong Kong Government News
- Hoy Digital (Dominican Republic)(español)
- Jakarta Globe
- Jakarta Post
- Monitor (Uganda)
- New Vision (Uganda)
- PAHO chikungunya page
- Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia)
- Saigon Giai Phong (Vietnam)
- Shanghai Daily
- Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau
- South China Morning Post
- Times of India
- Tuo Tre News (Vietnam)
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- UNHCR
- Xinhua (China)
Chikungunya, Dengue, Zika Resources
- #chikungunya
- #dengue
- #Zika
- #zikavirus
- 2015 Zika virus outbreak in Brazil on Wikipedia
- BMJ Zika resource page
Very useful free site, in English with some Portuguese & Spanish links. - Brazilian Ministry of Health website
In Portuguese; readable with Google Translate. - Brazilian Ministry of Health: Zika virus links
In Portuguese; news releases & information on Zika. - CDC on chikungunya
- CDC Zika virus page
- Chikungunya (Google News)
- Chikungunya (NewsNow)
- Chikungunya en Cuba (español)
- Chikungunya Virus Net
Both news and scientific articles. - CIDRAP: Zika Resources & Literature
Absolutely essential. - Colombia: Instituto Nacional de Salud
Important Zika source - Colombian Ministry of Health and Social Protection
- Dengue (NewsNow)
- Dominican Republic Ministry of Public Health
- ECDC Zika virus page
- Elsevier centre de recursos de información sobre el virus del zika (español)
- Elsevier Centro de Recursos sobre Vírus Zika (português)
- Elsevier Zika Virus Resource Center
Free access to news and research. - Pacific Medical Training: Dengue Fever
Concise but thorough one-page overview of dengue. - PAHO chikungunya page
Weekly updates plus technical materials. - PAHO Zika virus page
- PLOS Zika virus collection page
- The Guardian on Zika
Regular updates from a reliable source. - The Lancet Zika virus resource centre
Very useful and frequently updated. - WHO: Zika Open
New research papers. - WikiDoc on Zika virus
- Zika in Texas
Web page on the site of the Texas Department of State Health Services. - Zika Modeling
Projects a range of estimates for spread of Zika and number of microcephaly cases. - Zika no Brasil
Recent news stories; in Portuguese. - Zika on PubMed
Medical & scientific publications, steadily updated. - Zika Open-Research Portal
- Zika virus (Google News)
- Zika virus (NewsNow)
- Zika Virus Net
- Zika virus on Wikipedia
- Zika: Mapping the emerging evidence
Excellent compilation by WHO of research resources.
Ebola and Lassa Resources
- #Ebola
Very current tweets - #Lassa
Recent tweets on the disease. - BBC Africa
- CDC Ebola page
- CIDRAP Ebola links
Frequently updated. - Daily Observer (Liberia)
- Daily Trust
Nigerian paper with Lassa fever coverage. - Ebola (Google News)
- Ebola (NewsNow)
- Ebola Deeply
Archives of excellent coverage. - Ebola Outbreak in West Africa (Thomson Reuters)
- Ebola Response Anthropology Platform
- ECDC: Ebola and Marburg virus disease
Excellent news and resources. - Front Page Africa Online
- Government of Liberia Portal
- Lassa fever (Google)
- Lassa fever (NewsNow)
- LassaAlert
Nigerian government information site. - Le Jour (français)
Guinean newspaper - Liberia Ministry of Health
- Nigeria Federal Ministry of Health
Updates on the Lassa fever outbreak. - Nigeria Health Watch
- Politico
News and comment from Sierra Leone. - Sierra Leone Issues
Local Facebook page with occasional Ebola news. - Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation
- Sierra Leone Telegraph
- 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 Dawn (Liberia)
- Vanguard
Nigerian paper with Lassa fever reports. - West African Health Organization
Also in French and Portuguese. - WHO Ebola page
Essential resource. - WHO Regional Office for Africa
- Wikipedia on Lassa fever
- Wikipedia: 2014 West Africa Ebola Outbreak
- Wikipedia: Ebola virus disease
Basic information resource.
Avian Flu Resources
- Bird Flu (NewsNow)
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- CIDRAP on avian influenza
- ECDC: Avian influenza in humans
- Iowa Department of Agriculture
- Minnesota Board of Animal Health
- Nebraska Department of Agriculture
- OFFLU.net
- OIE Avian Influenza Portal
- OIE: World Organisation for Animal Health
- The Poultry Site Avian Flu News
- USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service
Latest avian flu updates. - WHO: Avian influenza
- WHO: Confimed human H5N1 cases
- Wikipedia on H5N2
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)
- FluTrackers Korean MERS-CoV Case List
- Infection Prevention and Control - KSA
Extensive list of MERS publications, other resources. - Iranian Ministry of Health (Farsi)
- MERS (Google News)
- MERS (NewsNow)
- MERS (Tersee)
- MERS charts by Maia Majumder
Frequently updated graphic overview. - MERS Live Contingency Tables
Details of all known MERS cases, compiled by Andrew Rambaut. - Qatar Supreme Council of Health
- SABQ.org (Arabic)
Good online news source. - Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health MERS page (Arabic)
- Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health MERS page (English)
- Saudi Arabia: Ministry of Health News
Updates on MERS and other health issues. - Saudi Daily Record: Healthcare
Occasional MERS reports in English. - Saudi Gazette
- Science Magazine MERS reports
Invaluable resource going back to 2012. - The National (United Arab Emirates)
- We Can Stop This
Saudi government blog on MERS. - WHO coronavirus updates
- WHO MERS-CoV page
- Yonhap News Agency (South Korea)
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
- Vigilancia en Salud Pública
Cuban public health site.
Français
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.
