The purpose of this web page is to provide links to on-line avian influenza information, particularly on strain H5N1, and related materials for use by veterinary students, veterinarians and other health professionals. I update this list irregularly as I happen onto good on-line resources and when I need to use it for teaching. I've bolded those resources that I consider more important or valuable or that I tend to use most often. Please let me know if you find mistakes or resources that I've overlooked.

Note: This page is not regularly updated

• CDC - Avian Influenza
• CIDRAP: Avian Influenza
• FluWiki
  • Sources and Links - includes blog rolls and aggregators
• PandemicFlu.gov - One-stop US government access
• ProMed-Mail

Federal Sites:

PandemicFlu.gov - Department of Health and Human Services - One stop access

• Contact Information for State Departments of Agriculture, Wildlife, and Public Health
• Medical Offices and Clinics Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist (html)
• Pandemic Planning Update (3/13/06, pdf)
• Planning checklist for individuals and families
• Workplace planning

CDC - Avian Influenza

• Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)
  • Key Facts about Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) and Avian Influenza A (H5N1) virus
  • Avian Influenza Infection in Humans
• H1N1 Flue (Swine Flu)
• Interim Recommendations for Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities . . . (pdf)
• Fact Sheet - preventing seasonal flu
• Respiratory Hygiene/Cough Etiquette in Healthcare Settings (pdf)
• Guidance for the Selection and Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in Healthcare Settings (pdf)
• Infection Control in Healthcare, Home, and Community Settings (SARS) (pdf)
• Respirators
• NIOSH Selection and Use of Particulate Respirators (N95 - 95% efficient)
• TB Respiratory Protection Program In Health Care Facilities

Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings (website)

Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings (MMWR October 25, 2002 / 51(RR16);1-44 pdf)

National Vaccine Program Office -Dept of Human and Health Services

• Activities on Influenza
• Pandemic Influenza Response and Preparedness Plan (Draft 8/04)

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (National Institutes of Health)

• Focus on Flue

National Library of Medicine - Specialized Information Services

• Enviro-Health Links - 2009 H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu)

OSHA

• Guidance for protecting workers against avian flu

USDA

• Biosecurity for the Birds
• Avian Influenza Surveys in Waterfowl Part I: The Role of Wild and Domestic Waterfowl in Avian Influenza Outbreaks in Domestic Poultry (pdf)

NCAHS - National Animal Health Monitoring System - Poultry

• NAHMS Poultry ’04: Health and Management of Gamefowl Breeder Flocks in the United States (Highlights pdf, Report pdf)
• NAHMS Poultry ’04: Health and Management of Backyard/Small Production Flocks in the United States, 2004 (Highlights pdf, Report pdf)

State Sites:

State Contact Information

Idaho:

• IDHW - Idaho Department of Health & Welfare
  • Avian and Pandemic Flu
• ISDA - Idaho State Department of Agriculture
  • Animals - Animal Disease

Montana:

• MFWP - Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
  • Avian Influenza
  • FWP Fact Sheet: Avian Influenza and Wild Birds in Montana

Washington:

• WDFW - Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
  • FAQ - Avian Influenza Fact Sheet
• WSDA - Washington Department of Agriculture
  • Avian Influenza
  • Avian Influenza Surveillance and Response (pdf)
• WSDOH
  • Pandemic influenza (“flu”): A message from State Health Officer Maxine Hayes
  • Preparing for Pandemic Influenza: A personal and family guide (pdf)
  • What you need to know about Pandemic influenza (“flu”)

Other Countries:

Australian Government: Department of Health and Aging

• Pandemic Influenza (html)
• Australian Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza (contents, full document pdf (1.1 MB))
• Preparing for an Influenza Pandemic - A Practical Guide for Medical Practitioners (html)
• Preparing for an Influenza Pandemic - Practical Information for Health Care Workers (html)

International Sites:

FAO  (Food and Agriculture Organization)

• Avian influenza in Asia - newsletter
• ANIMAL HEALTH SPECIAL REPORT: Avian Influenza
• FAO Recommendations on the Prevention, Control and Eradication of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Asia (9/04, pdf)
• Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Control in Indonesia (Peter Roeder, FAO, ppt)
• The Globalizing Livestock Sector: Impact of Changing Markets (html - synopsis)

Avian Influenza - Animal Health - Animal Production and Health Division

Empress - Livestock (Emergency Prevention System)

International Portal on Food Safety, Animal & Plant Health
Path > Cross-Sectorial Issue > Diseases > Highly pathogenic avian influenza

OIE  (World Organisation for Animal Health)

Avian Influenza website

LJ King, ed. 2004. Emerging zoonoses and pathogens of public health concerns. Sci Tech Rev, 23(2).

• Microbial adaptation and change: avian influenza (pdf)
• Ecological sources of zoonotic diseases (pdf)
• The role of wildlife in emerging and re-emerging zoonoses (pdf)

Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals
http://www.oie.int/eng/normes/mmanual/A_summry.htm

• Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

PAHO (Pan American Health Organization)

• Bird Flu: Communicating the Risk (Peter M. Sandman, Jody Lanard, Perspectives in Health, 10(2), 2005, html)
• Risk Communication: Self Instruction Course (webpage)

WHO  (World Health Organization)

• Avian influenza ("bird flu") - Fact Sheet
• Avian Influenza website
• WHO checklist for influenza pandemic preparedness planning, 2005 (39 pg pdf)
• Influenza A (H5N1): WHO Interim Infection Control Guidelines for Health Care Facilities

Academic Sites:

CIDRAP: Avian Influenza (MT Osterholm, U Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy)

• Avian Influenza (Bird Flu): Implications for Human Disease
• Avian Influenza (Bird Flu): Agricultural and Wildlife Considerations

Center for Food Security and Public Health (Iowa State U.)

• Animal Disease Information
  • Influenza Fact Sheet (2005, AR Spickler, 13 pg. pdf)
• Additional Resources

Cornell Consultant - Influenza

Hardin MD (Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa)

• Bird Flu / Asian Flu

Li Ping Medical Library (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

• Selected Resources on H5N1 Avian Influenza (includes PDF's of selected papers)

Medical Ecology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

• Influenza

National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense (Texas A&M)

• Avian Influenza (pdf)

One World, One Health: Building Interdisciplinary Bridges to Health in a "Globalized World" (Rockefeller University)

• Avian Influenza presentations

The Why Files (U Wisc)

• Dangers of "Bird Flu"

UC Davis

• Avian Influenza (Carol J. Cardona, Extension Poultry Veterinarian, html)
• Poultry Biosecurity Resource Forum (index)

U Wisconsin Tutorial

• Influenza as a zoonotic disease (short, html)

Other Sites:

American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia - Avian Influenza

ASTHO: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

• Flu Resources
• Pandemic Influenza

Coughsafe.com

• Why Don't We Do It In Our Sleeves?

IDSA: Infectious Diseases Society of America - Avian/Pandemic Flu

IIASA - Health and Global Change Project (Avian Influenza - pdf)

The Royal Institution World Science Assembly

• RiSci Pandemic Preparedness Project - 7/05 pdf

USAHA - publications

• Foreign Animal Diseases, 7^th ed. revised 2008, 472 pages ("The Gray Book") - USAHA  pdf   USDA NAHEM pdf 
  • (Avian Influenza - pg 137)

Other Information Sources:

American Public Health Association

• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 18^th ed. (DL Heymann, 2004, ISBN 0875530346, classic book - scheduled to be available on-line at APHA) (Amazon)

Avian Influenza Symposium (One Word - One Health: Building Interdisciplinary Bridges to Health in a "Globalized World", 9/04)

• Domestic and Wild Animal Health Perspective (Dr. Juan Lubroth - presentation PDF)

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

• ARDS (pulmonology channel)
• ARDS (Merck Manual)

Canine Influenza:

• Bronson Alerts Public To Newly Emerging Canine Flu - Florida Dept Ag 9/20/05
• Canine influenza virus emerges in Florida - AVMA 9/22/05
• Cornell Consultant - Influenza virus in dogs, Canine Flu
  • State Test Summaries
• Cornell University CVM - Animal Health Diagnostic Center - Canine influenza virus detected 9/21/05
• Transmission of Equine Influenza Virus to Dogs (Science on-line 9/26/05)
• Veterinary Advisory: Canine Influenza Virus (Canine Flu) - U Florida 8/12/05

CIA World Fact Book (index)

Dr. Martin Williams

• Farm fish fed dead chickens a risk for H5N1 influenza in Indonesia? html

FluWiki

• Basic Science Info
• Links and Other Resources (extensive)

Merck Manual

• Influenza

National Academies of Science

• The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? Workshop Summary (2005) (pdf version readable on-line)

OtoRhinoLounsburgology Productions

• Why Don't We Do It In Our Sleeves (html, watch)

Virology

• ICTVdB Descriptions Orthomyxoviridae
• The Big Picture Book of Viruses: Orthomyxoviridae

Papers:

• BMJ (search)
• Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Review of Aerosol Transmission of Influenza A Virus (EID 12(11), 2006)
• Foreign Affairs: The Next Pandemic, July/August 2005 (index)
  • The Next Pandemic? (L Garrett, html)
  • Preparing for the Next Pandemic (MT Osterholm, html)
• Medscape
  • Influenza: February 2006 (JG Bartlett, 2/27/06 - site registration required)
• Nature Avian flu web focus (index)
• New England Journal of Medicine
  • Avian Influenza — A Challenge to Global Health Care Structures (TT Hien, M de Jong, J Farrar, NEJM 351:2363-2365, 2004)
  • Influenza Vaccine — Outmaneuvering Antigenic Shift and Drift (JT Treanor, NEJM 350:218-220, 2004)
  • Preparing for the Next Pandemic (MT Osterholm, NEJM 352(18):1839-1842, 2005)
  • Prevention and Treatment of Influenza (RB Couch, NEJM 343(24):1778-1787, 2000
• New Scientist - Special Reports - Bird Flu
• Scientific American - Preparing for a Pandemic, Nov 2005

An Investor's Guide to Avian Flu (8/05, pdf)

Is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Over? Long-term Effects of In Utero Influenza Exposure in the Post-1940 U.S. Population (NBER, D Almond, pdf)

ProMed-Mail: The global electronic reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases & toxins, open to all sources.

PubMed

Risk = Hazard + Outrage: The Peter Sandman Risk Communication Web Site

• Crisis Communication (High Hazard, High Outrage) index
• Bird Flu: Communicating the Risk (PM Sandman, Jody Lanard, July 2005 PAHO pdf)
• Duct Tape Risk Communication (Peter M. Sandman, Jody Lanard, 2003)
• Pandemic Influenza Risk Communication: The Teachable Moment (Peter M. Sandman, Jody Lanard)
• Superb Flu Pandemic Risk Communication: A Role Model from Australia (Jody Lanard, Peter M. Sandman)
• The Flu Pandemic Preparedness Snowball (10/10/05, PM Sandman)
• What can individuals do to prepare for a bird flu pandemic?

SE Asia Poultry Industry Structure:

Livestock Industries of Indonesia Prior to the Asian Financial Crisis (FAO html)

• The Indonesian Feed and Livestock Sector: A statistical overview (Paul Riethmuller, pdf)
• Kampung Chickens: A key part of Indonesia's livestock sector (Kusuma Diwyanto, pdf)

Emergency Regional Support for Post-Avian Influenza Rehabilitation (FAO, pdf)

World migratory flyway graphics (Google Image "flyways"):

• FAO gif
• Thai Waterbirds
  • Flyways Of Shorebirds in East Asia (html)
  • Flyways From The Book "waterbirds of asia" (html)
  • Flyways Of Wild Geese and Duck in Asia (html)
• Wader Study Group
  • jpeg

Usenet:

• The Agonist
• The Flu Clinic

Wikipedia

• Avian Influenza
• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual
• Influenza

Blogs:

• Aetiology (Tara C. Smith)
  • Emerging Disease and Zoonoses #23--Pets ain't all they're cracked up to be (12/12/06)
  • Emerging disease and zoonoses #10 -- monkeypox (4/7/06) - wild animal import
• Aetiology (old site)
  • Pandemic influenza awareness week:
    • Day 1: History of pandemic influenza (10/05)
    • Day 2: Our adventures with avian flu (10/05)
    • Day 3: Challenges to pandemic preparedness (10/05)
• Avian Flu - What we need to know
• Connotea - posts index
  • Avian Flu tag
  • Avian Influenza tag
  • H5N1 tag
  • Pandemic tag
• Effect Measure (index of extensive bird flu posts on left margin)
• H5N1
• Influenza Pandemic
• Ryan Schultz blog post
• WorldChanging
  • Bird Flu: Can We Out-Collaborate a Pandemic? (8/05, html)

Popular Press:

Avian Flu, On the Verge of an Epidemic

Asia Times

• China plagued by bird-flu coverups (6/8/06) (via ProMED)

Bushmeat - meat from wild animals crossing international borders illegally - wiki

• Illegal Bushmeat Trade Rife in Europe, Research Finds (ScienceDaily, 6/18/10)
  • "Our results estimate that around 270 tonnes of potentially contaminated illegal bushmeat is passing unchecked through a single European airport per year"
  • "Our results show that this is a lucrative, organised trade feeding into a luxury market; a 4kg monkey will cost around €100 in France, compared with just €5 in Cameroon"
  • "Importing bushmeat is relatively easy as customs officials are given no financial incentives to uncover illegal meat imports, compared with the bonuses they're awarded for drug and counterfeit seizures. Also, penalties are very low for people caught carrying illegal meat."
• African bushmeat sold in Europe, America, scientists say (CNN 7/7/06)
• Bushmeat on the Menu (Science News 2/05 2nd site)
• The Bushmeat Trade (UK Parliament 2/05, pdf)
• The cost of bushmeat (BBC 6/02)

The film "describes the trade as "globalised", with organized couriers distributing the meat to many European capitals, where it arrives without any customs or health checks. Estimates put the amount reaching London's Heathrow airport at up to 10 tonnes a day, often in appalling condition. The film says the imported meat could be carrying foot-and-mouth, anthrax, the Ebola virus, TB or cholera."

Bushmeat Crisis Task Force

GRAIN - global sustainability NGO

• Fowl play: The poultry industry's central role in the bird flu crisis (Feb 06, html)

Latest news about the bird flu

Newspapers:

• Poultry smuggling is real — and dangerous (St. Louis Press Dispatch, 11/19/05)

The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History (JM Barry) (Amazon)

Selected longer review sources:

• Author Brings "The Great Influenza" to the School (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health)
• Best Selling Historian John Barry Lectures on the Flu Pandemic of 1918 and Its Relevance to Public Health Today (New York Academy of Medicine)
• College Quarterly
• Nature's biological weapon
• ReviewsOfBooks.com
• The Deadliest Epidemic in Human History
• 'The Great Influenza' and 'Microbial Threats to Health': Virus Alert (New York Times book review)
• The Plague That Won’t Go Away
• Virus Alert

For a scientific assessment of the current risks for an influenza pandemic, see the National Academies of Science publication The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready?. JM Barry contributed "1918 Revisted: Lessons and Suggestions for Further Inquiry" (pdf of first page of contribution) to the first chapter of this publication, "The Story of Influenza".

• The Politics of Bird Flu in Thailand (4/04, Chanida Chanyapate and Isabelle Delforge, Focus on the Global South, html   old site )
• The flu that made agribusiness stronger (5/04, By Isabelle Delforge, Focus on the Global South  html)
• Thailand: From the Kitchen of the World to Food Sovereignty (9/04, Isabelle Delforge, Focus on the Global South  html)

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