As you might expect, the British media are going to battle stations about the confirmation of H5N1 in a Scottish swan. A case in point: Stories in the Times Online. The link will take you to a page including a map of the British Isles, showing where dead birds have been found, and several stories about the swan and its impact across the United Kingdom.
Key Sites
- Avian Flu Diary
Reliable, knowledgeable, always in touch. - Bird flu (Google News)
- CBC Health
Canadian news reports - CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service
- CDC: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The major American health agency. - Chikungunya (Google News)
- China: National Health Commission
- Cholera (Google News)
- CHP Site for Surveillance of Wuhan Pneumonia Cluster
- CIDRAP
The site of record for infectious disease news. - ContagionLive
- Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention
Excellent US blog. - Dengue (Google News)
- Ebola (Google News)
The most and newest updates available. - Ebola (NewsNow)
- Efecto Cocuyo: Salud
Health-related reports on a dissident Venezuelan website. - Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Enhanced surveillance for cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan of Hubei
- 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. - Global Health Security Index
Survey of nations' global preparedness and response - Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network
- Goats and Soda: Health
National Public Radio's excellent blog. - Guardian Health
- H5N1 (Google News)
- H7N9 (Google News)
- Healthnews.Africa
- Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection
- Income inequality and health (Google News)
- Infectious Diseases Hub
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- International Organization for Migration
- The New Humanitarian
Important humanitarian news source. Formerly IRIN. - Lassa fever (Google News)
- Leishmaniasis (Google News)
- MediSys
- Médecins Sans Frontières
- Ministries of Health Worldwide
- Nature News & Comment
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
- Outbreak News Today
- Pandemic Live News
- PLOS Medicine
- PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
- PreventEpidemics.org
- ProMED-mail
- ReliefWeb updates
- Reuters Health News
- Saudi Arabia: MOH Command and Control Center
Official MERS data site since May 2018, offering sketchy weekly updates. - Science News
- Shots
NPR's health blog. - STAT
Excellent medical coverage from The Boston Globe. - The Lancet
- The Lancet Global Health
- The Lancet Healthy Longevity
- 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. - Thomson Reuters Climate News
- Thomson Reuters Humanitarian News
- Tracking Zebra
Dr. Amesh Adalja's blog. - Travel Health Pro
- UN News: Health
- UNHCR Media Centre
- VDU's blog
Dr. Ian Mackay's smart take on events. - Virology Blog
Dr. Vincent Racaniello's blog. - WHO Disease Outbreak News
- WHO Yemen Cholera Dashboard
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-East Asia Region
- WHO Universal Health Coverage Data Portal
- WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record
- WHO Western Pacific Region
Public Health Agencies & Health Departments
- ASEAN Plus Three Countries: Information Centre on Emerging Infectious Diseases
- BC Centre for Disease Control
- British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
- 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. - Grand Tour
A survey of ten healthcare systems around the world, with links to many others. - 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
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 Infectious Diseases: Advance articles
- 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
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. - Blog de Medicina Cubana (español)
- Bugbitten
A blog for the parasites and vectors community. - Contagions
- Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention
- 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 Threats and Infectious Diseases (ETID)
- epidemic
Excellent technical blog on viral diseases. - Global Polio Eradication Initiative
- Grand Tour
Links to healthcare systems and news about them around the world: Canada, the US, the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Singapore, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. - HICprevent
Blog of Hospital Infection Control & Prevention - Infection Control Tips
Promising new site on a key issue. - Kenny Moise
A Haitian physician and public health researcher. - Maia Majumder, Mens et Manus
- Mosquito Research and Management
Excellent blog by Australian researcher Dr. Cameron Webb. - MRSAtopic
- Nigeria Health Watch
- Outbreak News Today
- Scott McPherson's Web Presence
- Shots
National Public Radio health blog - The Incidental Economist
Blog on health services research. - This Day in Water History
Very interesting historical blog. - 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
Recent Posts
- Encouraging indicators are everywhere, but deaths remain high: This week in COVID-19 data, Jan 21
- German COVID-19 death toll tops 50,000 even as infections sink
- Spaniards becoming numb to coronavirus deaths, nurse warns
- COVID-19 on Thursday morning: 96,984,258 cases and 2,077,803 deaths
- Preparing for a COVID-19 resurgence in the WHO African region
- Factors associated with progression to death in patients with Lassa fever in Nigeria
- Oxygen thefts mount as Mexico reports record COVID-19 deaths
- Loneliness, worries, anxiety, and precautionary behaviours in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Don’t forget the uncounted casualties of COVID-19
- Bolsonaro government knew 10 days before collapse in Manaus and need to transfer patients
Recent Comments
- Crof on Coronavirus: Global death toll could hit 5 million by March, Chinese researchers say
- Xu Hu on Coronavirus: Global death toll could hit 5 million by March, Chinese researchers say
- Parademic on Canada: Military medical intelligence warnings gathered dust as public health struggled to define COVID-19
- Daisy on Saudi Arabia: MOH records 137 new COVID-19 cases, 228 recoveries on Friday
- Sandra Davis on COVID-19: Thoughts at the end of Year 1
- Ivan Blanco on A small holiday gift (updated)
- Azza on A small holiday gift (updated)
- Holly Reischman on Why has COVID-19 claimed few lives in Haiti despite lax rules?
- Crof on As US deaths approach 300,000, obituaries force reckoning with Covid-19
- Juliana Majcher on As US deaths approach 300,000, obituaries force reckoning with Covid-19
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.
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- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
- Channel NewsAsia: COVID-19 outbreak
- Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- CIDRAP Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource Center
- CMAJ on COVID-19
- Coronavirus Act Now
Remarkable interactive site showing how strategies can flatten the curve (or fail to) - Coronavirus in US and Canada: Real Time Updates
- COVID Tracking Project
- COVID-19 in British Columbia by the numbers
- COVID-19 in Canada
- COVID-19 in Canada and the World
Frequently updated maps and charts. - COVID-19 Projections Using Machine Learning
Youyang Gu's website; projections for US states, over 60 countries. - COVID-19 Risks in British Columbia's Neighbourhoods
- COVID-19 Updates: Canada
- Deutsche Welle Radio: COVID-19
- ECDC on Novel Coronavirus 2019
- Florida COVID-19 Action: Schools
- FluTrackers
- China: National Health Commission COVID-19 Updates
- EuroMOMO
Tracks excess mortality. - FNOMCeO
Website of the Italian National Federation of the Orders of Doctors, Surgeons, and Dentists. - France24 Coronavirus
- Global Times Real-time update on coronavirus outbreak
- Guardian Infectious Diseases
- Haiti: Ministry of Public Health and Population
- Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection
- Inquirer.net COVD-19 updates
News from the Philippines - Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Iowa Capital Dispatch on COVID-19
- Iowa COVID-19 Tracker
- Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education
- Italian Ministry of Health
- Italy: Coronavirus information site (in English)
- Johns Hopkins Data in Motion
Ccritical data on COVID-19 from the last 24 hours - Kaiser Health News: COVID-19
- medRxiv
Research preprints awaiting peer review. - Mike Coston
- Ministries of Health Worldwide
- MRC Centre for Global Disease Analysis: COVID-19
- MSF on COVID-19
- National COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Project
- Nature.com COVID-19 updates
- NEJM Coronavirus Page
- New York State Department of Health
- New York Times COVID-19 Coverage
Not paywalled - Novel Coronavirus Running Tally
- Our World in Data: Coronavirus
- Outbreak News Today
- Oxford University Coronavirus Government Response Tracker
- Peter Sandman on COVID-19 Risk Communication
- Prevent Epidemics
Country-level data on epidemic preparedness. - Pública
Brazilian investigative journalism website, in Portuguese. - Reuters Health News
- Robert Koch Institute COVID-19 Dashboard
- Rt COVID-19
Shows Rt numbers of US states; above 1 = trouble. - SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Data Hub
Excellent collection of useful links. - Science Speaks Blog: Global ID News
- Singapore MoH COVID-19 updates
- Sixth Tone
- South China Morning Post
- South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare
- Springer Nature Research Articles on COVID-19
Free access to research articles and comment. - Taiwan Centers for Disease Control
- The COVID Tracking Project
Follows US case counts, nationally and state by state - The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
- The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Centre
All articles on COVID-19 published in Lancet journals. - Timeline of the Coronavirus Pandemic and US Response
- Timeline of the Coronavirus Pandemic and US Response
- Tracking COVID-19 excess deaths across countries
- Vietnam+
- virological.org
- Weather Underground US COVID-19 Map
County-level case counts and deaths. - WHO Disease Outbreak News
- WHO Western Pacific Regional Office
- Yonhap News Agency (South Korea)
Ebola
- #Ebola
Very current tweets - 7sur7
- @MSFCongo
In French. - Actualité.cd
In French. - CDC Ebola page
- CMRE RDC
Twitter account of the Comité Multisectoriel de la Riposte à la Maladie à Virus Ebola, the agency fighting the outbreak. - Congocheck
Fact-checks Congolese media. - Digital Congo Health
In French. - DR Congo Ministry of Health
DRC MoH Twitter account - DR Congo Ministry of Public Health Ebola daily updates
In French. Archives of the first year of the 10th outbreak. - Ebola (NewsNow)
Recent news stories. - Ebola DRC KIVU 2018 Dashboard
- Ebola Response DRC
- Habari RDC
Website featuring stories from Congolese bloggers. - Jean-Jacques Muyembe
New head of the DR Congo Ebola response team. - Koma Ebola
News on the outbreak in North and South Kivu and Ituri - La Voix de l'Ituri
Started July 17, 2019. - Media Congo health reports
In French. - MediSys Latest Ebola News
- Provinces 26 RDC Health
- Radio Moto Butembo-Beni
- Radio Okapi
Ebola reports in French. - ReliefWeb: DR Congo
Reports from various sources on humanitarian issues. - Reuters DR Congo
- The Conversation Africa: Health & Medicine
- The Ebola Files
Compendium of articles published in Science over more than a decade. - The Lancet: Ebola Resource Centre
All relevant Lancet articles, freely accessible. - TopCongo FM
- UNICEF Ebola page
- WHO Ebola virus disease
Current updates and general information. - WHO Regional Office for Africa
- WHO: Ebola daily case numbers
- Wikipedia: 2014 West Africa Ebola Outbreak
- Wikipedia: Ebola virus disease
Basic information resource.
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.
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 - ContagionLive
- 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)
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- Venezuela: Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Salud
- Vigilancia en Salud Pública
Cuban public health site.
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About the surprising new genres emerging on the Web.