Amazing how one upstart little virus can hijack my blog. I'm about to try catching up on some of the many other stories I usually cover, but I realize some visitors are even more H7N9-obsessed than I (which is saying something). So if you're that kind of person, and really don't want to scroll through reports on all the other ills that flesh is heir to, here's a basic list of H7N9 resources.
ABYZ News Links. Click through, find the Asia links, and click on China. You'll get a huge array of sources, most of them in Chinese but many in other languages. Note that you can explore both national and provincial sources. Xinhua is likely the origin of most reports, but you may find something local.
NewsNow's Bird Flu and H7N9 pages. Often redundant, but they'll give you a sense of how the story's being covered around the world.
Mike Coston's Avian Flu Diary—one of the first two or three places I go to first thing in the morning, and frequently thereafter. You should also follow him on Twitter.
Speaking of Twitter, bookmark the hashtag #H7N9. The link will take you to the all-tweets page, not just the top tweets. You will soon find a lot of useful tweeters there; follow them.
FluTrackers are doing amazing work following H7N9. The link will take you to the China subthread on H5N1 and H7N9, and posts include many computer translations from Chinese.
Hong Kong has two key resources: the Health & Community page of the government's website, and the Centre for Health Protection. See the CHP's press releases page as well.
You can rest assured that journalists on the case are not resting at all. Among those to follow on Twitter: Helen Branswell, Declan Butler, Gillian Wong, Margie Mason, and Jennifer Yang. Lisa Schnirring at CIDRAP does wonderful daily wrap-up stories.
If you use Google News, I suggest you personalize it to deliver reports on H7N9 and bird flu. (Or just bookmark the pages behind those links.) You can also go to Google Alerts to order reports on those topics emailed to you as rarely as once a week or as quickly as they happen.
For technical information, I've just discovered epidemic, a website run by the University of Edinburgh; explore it and you'll find more material on NCoV, dengue, and other viral diseases. Follow Dr. Vincent Racaniello, a virologist who will doubtless have plenty to say about H7N9 on his virology blog.
Among institutions, obviously you need to bookmark WHO's Global Alert and Response Disease Outbreak page. It doesn't update as often as I'd like, but it's essential—and I'd be impatient even if they live-tweeted H7N9. Here's WHO's Twitter page. Also bookmark the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and follow it here. ECDC keeps an eye on health threats all over the world, especially if they pose a threat to Europe.
Most of these links are also here on the H5N1 home page, but scattered among many other links. By all means feel free to explore this page; that's what the links are for. If you run across something interesting that I haven't posted on, drop me an email; I miss a lot.
Of course I'll continue to post H7N9 news, but henceforth expect a mix of reports. And if you decide to launch your own H7N9 blog, please Download Theory & Practice of Flu Blogging. Once you're up and running, I'll link to you instantly.
