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HOW TO: Track Swine Flu Online

Source: Mashable!

Apr 25, 2009

Summary

There are few things in this world that cannot be easily replaced, repaired, or regained. Our health and the health of the ones we love falls into this category. The best thing we can do to protect our health, above medication or rest, is prevention.

This week, news broke of a new and fatal swine flu on the Mexico-U.S. border. It has quickly turned into a growing outbreak and possible pandemic. Knowing about these important and growing cases is vital to public health. Fortunately, there are several useful online resources that track health information and disease outbreaks.

This resource guide will help you better track not only cases of Swine Flu, but other public health concerns as well.

Step 1. Check the WHO Disease Outbreak News Center

The World Health Organization (WHO) is the leading source for health and disease-related information. If you’re just looking for breaking news on major epidemics and outbreaks, visit their Disease Outbreak News Center, which provides current and historical information on diseases, as well as an RSS feed.

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Comments (11)

Nathan,

Apr 26, 2009

great roundup of top sources on swine flu from Mashable

Adelinejoie,

Apr 26, 2009

This thing is scaring me.

Nerdstalker,

Apr 26, 2009

Can things get any worse? sheesh.

Barcelonaphotoblog,

Apr 26, 2009

This is starting to sound like the movies although this time is real :(

Greendiamond,

Apr 27, 2009

we have to take care, wash hands and wear mouth masks

Hiteshmanchanda,

Apr 27, 2009

hmmm....

Nerigobiz,

Apr 27, 2009

You have a good and informative post on Swine Flu. It just reached us here in Europe...

Jenniferl,

Apr 27, 2009

A month back I had a terrible cold and chest cold that would not go away.
I bet they will be taken extra clean work wear.

Narciss,

Apr 28, 2009

good post

Openflu,

Apr 28, 2009

We've got a large & small maps of the flu online, as well as browsable/XML data so developers can grab the data: http://openflu.dyndns.org/

Thelongcount,

Apr 28, 2009

heres another aggregator thats pretty handy. gathering information from world news sources and clumping them together by country, day by day, with a map to boot.

handy.

http://trancy.net/h1n1/