...beyond my control have made blogging awkward this morning. Until TypePad sorts itself out, I'll have to hold off on posts with links in them. In the meantime, visit SciDevNet for the regular Monday-morning update. Helen Branswell has a new report out—you should be able to find it at the Globe and Mail, CBC.ca, and eventually C-Health. Thanks for your patience.
Key Sites
- Avian Flu Diary
Reliable, knowledgeable, always in touch. - Canadian Institute for Health Information
- CBC Health
Canadian news reports - CDC: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The major American health agency. - CIDRAP
The site of record for infectious disease news. - Emerging Infectious Diseases
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Essential. - Eurosurveillance
- Flu in China
- European Respiratory Virus Surveillance Summary (ERVISS)
Joint ECDC-WHO/Europe site with weekly updates on influenza, COVID-19, and other viruses. - FluTrackers
Covering infectious diseases since 2006. - Guardian Health
- H5N1 (NewsNow)
- Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection
- HPAI in Livestock
- 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. - Médecins Sans Frontières
- Ministries of Health Worldwide
- Nature News & Comment
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
- Outbreak News Today
- PLOS Medicine
- PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
- ProMED-mail
- ReliefWeb updates
- Science News
- 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
- UN News: Health
- UNHCR Media Centre
- VDU's blog
Dr. Ian Mackay's smart take on events. - WHO Disease Outbreak News
- Worldometer
Real-time statistics, including coronavirus
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.
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COVID-19 Links
- @HelenBranswell
- @mackayIM
- BCCDC COVID-19 Updates
- Brazil: National Council of Health Secretariats (CONASS)
- Canadian COVID-19 Hazard Index
- Channel NewsAsia: COVID-19 outbreak
- COVID-19 in Canada
- Covid-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project
- COVID-19 Resources Canada
- European COVID-19 Forecast Hub
- FluTrackers
- EuroMOMO
Tracks excess mortality. - Eurostat COVID-19 statistics
- Fiocruz
Major Brazilian health institute - Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Mike Coston
- Ministries of Health Worldwide
- MRC Centre for Global Disease Analysis: COVID-19
- Nature.com COVID-19 updates
- NewsNow COVID-19 updates
- Our World in Data: Coronavirus
- Outbreak News Today
- Peter Sandman on COVID-19 Risk Communication
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Data Hub
Excellent collection of useful links. - South Africa: National Institute for Communicable Diseases
- The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
- The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Centre
All articles on COVID-19 published in Lancet journals. - Tracking COVID-19 excess deaths across countries
- Yonhap News Agency (South Korea)
Hot Zone Sources
- AllAfrica.com: Health and Medicine
- Bangkok Post
- Beijing Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index
- Delhi Air Pollution: Realtime Air Quality Index
- European Centre for Disease Control
- Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection
- Hong Kong Government News
- Times of India
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- UNHCR
- Xinhua (China)
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
Ebola
- #Ebola
Very current tweets - 7sur7
- @MSFCongo
In French. - Actualité.cd
In French. - Africa Times
- 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 Dashboard, 2022
- Ebola DRC KIVU 2018 Dashboard
- Ebola Response DRC
- Guinee Matin
- GuineeNews.org
- 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
- Sierra Leone Telegraph
- 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.
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