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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
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Public Health Agencies & Health Departments
- ASEAN Plus Three Countries: Information Centre on Emerging Infectious Diseases
- BC Centre for Disease Control
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- California Department of Public Health
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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