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A/H1N1 influenza (Swine) influenza

Very grateful to colleagues, in at the University or on Twitter or email listservs for many of these links. Too many people to thank by name, so thank you all!

University of Leicester Advice on Swine Flu

In addition to the links below, our influenza homepage has a custom search box that you might find useful.

Information from the World Health Organization
Information from the UK
Information from the United States
Information in languages other than English
Monitoring the outbreak
Research, genetics, evidence based information for healthcare professionals
Blogs
Other resources

Information from the World Health Organization

World Health Organization: Swine Influenza .


Information from the UK

BBC News: Swine Flu - your questions - Interview with Maureen Baker, Head of Pandemic Planning at the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Department of Health - Information for the media, along with the leaflet currently being distributed in England, is currently on the DH homepage. Cross departmental government advice is available from the Directgov homepage. The UK government helpline is 0800 1 513 513.

Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills - Swine flu information for HE and FE institutions.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Guardian - (Other newspapers are available!).

Health Protection Agency

National Pandemic Flu Service - for patients in England who may have flu. Includes links to information, an online assessment to help you decide if you have flu, and a note of the Swine Flu Information Line (0800 1 513 513) .

NHS Evidence - Infections - From the recently renamed National Library for Health Specialist Library covering infections.

NHS Choices - Swine flu alert - Has links to information leaflet in languages other than English, as well as to other NHS and official information


Information from the United States

American Veterinary Medical Association - information for vets and pets.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Information relating to the United States. CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response can be followed on Twitter. CDC Public Service Announcements (PSAs) are also available.

Flu.gov - Know what to do about the flu. Official US Government website managed by the DHHS.

MedlinePlus - H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu / Gripe Porcina) - In English and Spanish.

National Library of Medicine: Enviro-Health Links, Swine Flu -


Information in languages other than English

CDC - Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog

Echo Minnesota - audio, video and print. Spanish, Somali and Hmong.

MedlinePlus - H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu / Gripe Porcina) - In English and Spanish.

NHS Choices - Swine flu alert - Has links to information leaflet in languages other than English, as well as to other NHS and official information.

SPIRAL - South east Asian languages, from various sources, including video and audio.


Monitoring the outbreak

See also our News, Statistics, Outbreaks, Surveillance page.

CABI Swine Flu Dashboard - Includes maps, Google search trend information, and free access to CABI's Global Health database of research literature, as well as updates from CDC, WHO and Wikipedia.

Department of Defense Worldwide Influenza Surveillance Program

FluTrackers

Health Protection Agency - Swine Flu Updates (published as press releases)

iGoogle - there are posts on the Emerging Technologies Librarian and the UM Health Sciences Libraries (University of Michigan) blogs about using iGoogle to monitor swine flu.

Mashable has advice on how to track swine flu online.

Twitter Search - swine flu - See what is being twittered about.

Maps are available from HealthMap, and Google Maps .

For news, try the Nature News Swine Flu Special (the University's subscription may not allow access to everything in full) or Eurekalert (AAAS).


Research, genetics, evidence based information for healthcare professionals

Recent PubMed citations are here. NLM information about MeSH terminology and tips for searching PubMed are here.

American Society for Microbiology - ASM has an information page and has also made some recent research articles available free of charge.

Best Practice (BMJ): Swine influenza - Evidence based summary for clinicians. Free to access.

BMJ Group: Pandemic Flu Updates - free to access. Aimed at doctors and other health professionals, and includes news, research articles, BMJ Learning material, and patient information.

CABI Swine Flu Dashboard - Includes maps, Google search trend information, and free access to CABI's Global Health database of research literature, as well as updates from CDC, WHO and Wikipedia.

Cochrane Reviews of Prevention and Treatment of Influenza
Links to all Cochrane systematic reviews relating to influenza.

DynaMed - DynaMed provides evidence based summaries on health topics. Information on swine flu is free to access, although the rest of DynaMed is available on subscription only (members of the NHS in the UK and members of the University of Leicester are able to access it - contact us for details - members of other institutions should contact their own library for advice).

The GISAID Platform - Initiative designed to make genetic sequence data publically available.

Global Health - This CABI database is currently free to access - it covers public health and may index older material than other databases.

H1N1 Resource Centre - The Lancet - Free material on diagnosis, epidemiology, preparedness, vaccination, virology and more. Note that the University of Leicester does not subscribe to the Lancet itself through this site (use Leicester e-link to find the Lancet).

H1N1 Influenza Center - New England Journal of Medicine - Online First publications and commentaries from NEJM and material from the archive about previous outbreaks. Appears to be free to access.

Influenza Virus Resource (NCBI) - Genetic sequence data relating to the H1N1 viruses from Texas and California.

PLoS Currents: Influenza is a "moderated collection for rapid and open sharing of useful new scientific data, analyses, and ideas".

Springer - Springer are providing free access to journal articles dealing with H1N1/swine flu. Use the link here and search for the term H1N1.

WebMD - Follow the links from the home page (look in the Cold and Flu Health Center if there are no links directly to the information).


Blogs

Bloggers who have written about swine flu include David Bradley at Sciencebase, and Alan Cann of this University - 10 things you should know about swine flu, and 10 more things you should know about swine flu. NPR Flu Shots - Swine Flu Outbreak Updates is a blog from the National Public Radio network in the United States. Daniel Hernandez is blogging in Mexico City and is writing about the situation there in his blog Intersections. Tara Smith, professor of epidemiology in Iowa, covers swine flu on her blog Aetiology.


Other resources

CABI Swine Flu Dashboard - Includes maps, Google search trend information, and free access to CABI's Global Health database of research literature, as well as updates from CDC, WHO and Wikipedia.

Intute - Evaluated web resources. There is a blog posting listing Intute resources, by Celia Walter at the University of Cape Town.

Supercourse: Swine influenza A (H1N1) outbreak in US and Mexico: potential for a pandemic - Online lecture from Supercourse global health resource, based at the University of Pittsburgh.

Swine Flu wiki - Maintained by Nicole Dettmar at the National Network of Libraries of Medicine

TRIP: Liberating the Literature - Swine Flu - Useful list of links.