Influenza links
Categorised links to information about influenza:
- Animal influenzas
- Clinical and prevention
- Epidemiology
- General interest
- Influenza - 1918
- Patient information
- Structure, function and genetics
Animal Influenzas
- Animal Health Trust
- The Science section has pages on Canine and Equine Influenza
Written/produced by: Animal Health Trust. - Avian and Pandemic Influenza
- Protal of links maintained by the Univesity of Leicester Clinical Library. Recently extended to include Swine flu
Written/produced by: Nockels, Keith. - Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)
- Information on the disease in animals and humans, surveillance data and advice for various groups of persons who may encounter bird flu
Written/produced by: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. - Avian Influenza Portal
- General information, also includes some information on Swine influenza outbreak
Written/produced by: Virtual Health Library. - Canine Influenza (Dog Flu)
- General information on the disease and advice for various groups of persons who may it
Written/produced by: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. - Influenza
- General information and lists of news items on Avian, Canine, Equine and Swine influenzas
Written/produced by: American Veterinary Medical Association. - Nature Reports: Avian Flu
- Current news, timelines (including past pandemics), blog on recent articles and links to the articles, Google Earth mash-up of spread of H5N1 since 2003 and FAQs.
- Swine Flu
- News, Q&A and outbreak information on current outbreak in humans
Written/produced by: BBC. - Swine Influenza (Flu)
- Information on the disease in animals and humans, surveillance data and advice for various groups of persons who may encounter it
Written/produced by: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. - WHO Animal Influenza Network
- Information about WHO Working Group on Influenza Research at the Human/Animal Interface
Written/produced by: World Health Organization.
Clinical and prevention
- Commission Working Paper on Community Influenza Pandemic Preparedness and Response Planning
- Full text of document produced in Brussels on 26.03.2004
Written/produced by: Commission of the European Communities. - Facts about ... Influenza
- This document written by experts discusses the three types of influenza virus, A, B and C, clinical surveillance, disease transmission, clinical signs and symptoms, immunity, influenza vaccines, prevention and control measures, and available treatments
Written/produced by: Association of Medical Microbiologists. - Flu (Influenza)
- Gateway with links to frontline laboratory and clinical research sites. Covers seasonal, pandemic, avian(bird) and swine flu.
Written/produced by: US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. - Influenza
- EC website looking at the threat to public health of influenza, includes links to Community Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Planning pages
Written/produced by: European Commission. - Influenza: It's not just for the birds
- Slide show with commentary by Parker Small on influenza. Produced as part of the University of Florida's Grand Rounds online
Written/produced by: Small, PA. - Influenza (Factsheet)
- Revised in March 2003, this factsheet provides a brief overview of influenza outbreaks and covers influenza viruses, pandemic influenza, disease transmission, influenza vaccines, symptomatic treatments, and antiviral drugs
Written/produced by: World Health Organization. - Influenza Vaccination and Older People
- Full text of a document from Effectiveness Matters, Issue 1, October 1996. It provides facts about influenza (flu), effectiveness of the influenza vaccine, adverse effects and contraindications, cost effectiveness and policy issues.
Written/produced by: NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. - Myxoviruses
- Online tutorial gives good overview of the virus family and a brief history of disease. Page no longer traceable on University of Leicester site - link is to last version available on the Internet Archive.
Written/produced by: University of Leicester. - NICE Technology Assessment Report: Systematic review and economic decision modelling for the prevention and treatment of influenza A and B
- This systematic review assesses the clinical and cost-effectiveness of various treatments for influenza, including the influenza vaccine. Evaluation of papers that studied the use of three particular treatments (amantadine, oseltamivir, zanamivir) was carried out. Published in November 2003. The executive summary is available in HTML, and the full-text document is available in PDF.
Written/produced by: Turner, D et al. - Orthomyxoviruses
- From Medical Microbiology. (Fourth Edition) Edited By: Samuel Baron. Section 2: Virology. This chapter concisely covers clinical manifestations, viral structure, viral strains, virus replication, pathogenesis, host defenses, epidemiology, diagnosis and control.
Written/produced by: Couch, RB. - Pandemicflu.gov
- Comprehensive site with information on pandemic, avian and swine flu from the US Government
- Seasonal Influenza
- Information about vaccines, antiviral drugs and general clinical information
Written/produced by: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. - World Influenza Centre
- One of four WHO Collaborating Centres for Reference and Research on Influenza
Written/produced by: UK Medical Research Council. National Institute for Medical Research.
Epidemiology
- Australian WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza
- Website provides general information on influenza and surveillence data for the region as reports and maps
- Epidemiological Data - Influenza
- Weekly reports of influenza activity in England, Wales and Scotland for the current season and summaries of data from the preceding season
Written/produced by: UK Health Protection Agency. - European Influenza Surveillance Scheme Internet Database
- This system specialises in collecting European Virological and Clinical Data relating to Influenza. The main site is password protected and accessible only by authorised institutions. The public site gives information about the scheme and a summary of influenza activity in Europe.
Written/produced by: European Influenza Surveillance Scheme. - Flu Activity and Surveillance
- Influenza surveillance in the US, including a weekly reports.
Written/produced by: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. - Flu Watch
- Monitoring data on influenza vaccination and infection in UK for the current winter.
Written/produced by: Chief Medical Officer. - FluNet
- FluNet is WHO's geographical information system to monitor influenza activity. It links National Influenza Centres and Collaborating Centres throughout the world for information exchange in the global surveillance of influenza coordinated by the World Health Organization. FluNet provides for remote data entry to a central database. Participating laboratories and other users can query the data base with immediate feedback of information as data tables, graphs, maps and free text. Complete data maybe downloaded. Fully operational, the system will give early alerts of influenza epidemics and be a tool to improve public health action for epidemic preparedness and control.
Written/produced by: World Health Organization. - Weekly Epidemiological Record
- The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) serves as an essential instrument for the rapid and accurate dissemination of epidemiological information on cases and outbreaks of diseases under the International Health Regulations and on other communicable diseases of public health importance, including emerging or re-emerging infections
Written/produced by: World Health Organization. - WHO Global Influenza Programme
- Contains a list of WHO influenza centres and partners, current recommendations for vaccine composition, a list of vaccine manufacturers, an account of global influenza activity for the current and previous season, news about influenza outbreaks, a factsheet about Influenza A(H5N1), annual and semi-annual reviews of influenza activity in the world from the Weekly Epidemiological Record.
Written/produced by: World Health Organization.
General interest
- Distemper and Influenza at Mill Hill
- To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the new National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) at Mill Hill, the essays for 2000 focus on areas of work at the Institute which have been continuously important strands of medical research for the last half century. This essay discusses the group of viruses called paramyxoviruses, international research activities and prevention and control methods for distemper, human influenza viruses, cross-species infections and virus research at Mill Hill
Written/produced by: Craver, R and Skehel, J. - Flu Epidemic
- An interactive game were players assume role of Health Minister and attempt to stop the spread of a flu virus
Written/produced by: Centre of the Cell. - The flu hunters
- An account of the 1997 Hong Kong flu outbreak.
Written/produced by: Time Magazine. - Fluwiki
- A wiki site which carries news and links to a wide range of resources
- Viruses : from Structure to Biology
- The site explores "the historical developments that led to the determination of the structure and biological functions of viruses and their macromolecular components". Sections covering the topic include an introduction, some historical highlights: structural virology and virology, solving the structure of icosahedral plant viruses, Picornavirus structure, the influenza virus hemagglutinin, the influenza virus neuraminidase, and issues of science and society
Written/produced by: Schlesinger, S and Schlesinger, M.
Influenza - 1918
- 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic Mortality in England and Wales
- Data available for academic purposes. Access requires registration and use of an Athens username and password - students or lecturers should apply to their college or university for further information.
Written/produced by: UK Data Archive. - American experience: influenza 1918
- This Web site accompanies a film broadcast by the US Public Broadcasting Service about the influenza outbreak in the United States in 1918, the so-called "Spanish flu". The site contains a full transcript of the film and transcripts of interviews with the programme's participants. The interviews are also available as audio files. In addition, the site also has sections on the effects of the flu on three cities (Boston, San Francisco and Philadelphia), some information about famous victims of the flu and a letter from a doctor stationed at a military camp in Boston. There is also a timeline, outlining events month by month and a map and graph detailing the spread of the virus. The site also features some interviews and facts relating to more recent and possible future flu outbreaks. This Web site is primarily aimed at a general audience and school children. To listen to the audio files it is necessary to have the Realplayer plugin installed.
Written/produced by: US Public Broadcasting Service. - FluWeb
- A portal links to historical data on past influenza epidemics, including the 1889-91 and 1918-19 pandemics
- The great influenza pandemic of 1918
- Published in Culture (2003), 24 (2): 1-4 . This full text article gives overview of knowledge about the pandemic.
Written/produced by: Bridson, Eric. - In search of an enigma: the "Spanish Lady"
- An essay on the 1918 influenza pandemic. One of the "Mill Hill Essays" for 1998.
Written/produced by: Daniels, R. - The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
- Web site written in 1997 and hosted by the Virus Group at Stanford University gives an overview of the pandemic from an American perspective
Written/produced by: Billings, Molly. - Listening to WWI: The War at Home. The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
- Webpage with 5 interviews of people's experience of the pandemic. Note Page no longer available, link is to Internet Archive, so audio files links are broken. Three of the audio files are available on the History matters website
Written/produced by: Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. - The Pathology of Influenza in France
- Reproduction of a classic paper describing 1918 flu. Orginally published in The Medical Journal of Australia (1920), 1: 207-10. It is hosted on the The Medical Front WW1 website
Written/produced by: Patterson, S W. - Secrets of the Dead: Case File: Killer Flu
- Interactive webpage supporting a program in the series. The program looked at the work of Jeffery Taubenberger and his colleagues as they study the virus which caused the 1918 pandemic
Written/produced by: Thirteen/WNET New York. - Spanish Flu
- Entry in Wikipedia (free online encyclopedia) gives clear overview of the pandemic
- The Spanish flu of 1918
- Webpage hosted by UK Channel 4 television, gives overview of the 1918 pandemic and the work of Professor John Oxford. Originally mounted as support material for a program in the "Secrets of the Dead" series broadcast in 2003, the page has been subsequently updated.
Written/produced by: Roach, Kate. - The Spanish Influenza 1918
- A website with lists of web resources on the pandemic. Lists many sites detailing impact on selected countries, cities or areas.
Written/produced by: Guonadottir, Sigrun.
Patient information
- Bird Flu
- Patient information from National Institute for Health in USA.
Written/produced by: Medline Plus. - Cold and Flu Learning Center
- An American website with wide range of basic information on both conditions. It includes links to multimedia presentations as well as textual information.
Written/produced by: Healthline. - Flu
- Online encyclopedia entry for flu
Written/produced by: NHSDirect. - Flu
- Page has more details of the symptoms of flu and self-help than the Flu:Q&A. Also includes some information on secondary infections and epidemics
Written/produced by: BBC Health: Medical Notes. - Frequently asked questions on Influenza
- Answers to questions about: Pandemics and epidemics, Vaccinations and immunity, , Symptoms and advice, HPA activity, Trends and figures.
Written/produced by: UK Health Protection Agency. - Influenza ('flu)
- Clear patient centred advice on flu - symptomatic treatment, antivirals and vaccination.
Written/produced by: Medinfo. - Q&A: Flu
- Answers questions on : what is flu, its cause, how it is spread and its prevention by vaccination.
Written/produced by: BBC Health. - Swine flu
- Q&A on the condition
Written/produced by: NHS. - Swine Flu
- Patient information from National Institute for Health in USA.
Written/produced by: Medline Plus. - Understanding Flu, NIAID
- A summary of basic facts about influenza: transmission, symptoms, treatment, complications, virus strains, prevention and vaccination.
Written/produced by: US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Structure, function and genetics
- How flu jumped a species to kill millions
- News story from Times Online (6th February 2004) about the discovery of the structure of the 1918 influenza virus
Written/produced by: Henderson, M. - Influenza
- NIAID launched this influenza virus database in 2004 to serve as a comprehensive, freely available global public database and analysis resource for the study of influenza viruses
Written/produced by: BioHealthBase. - Influenza A virus genome
- An easy link into Influenza A sequences in Entrez.
Written/produced by: US National Center for Biotechnology Information. - Influenza B virus genome
- An easy link into influenza B sequences in Entrez.
Written/produced by: US National Center for Biotechnology Information. - Influenza C virus genome
- An easy link into influenza C sequences in Entrez.
Written/produced by: US National Center for Biotechnology Information. - Influenza Sequence Database
- A subscription curated database of over 3,000 influenza sequences, together with tools tailored, in particular, to the analysis of hemagglutinin and neuraminidase sequences
Written/produced by: Los Alamos National Laboratory. - Influenza Virus Resource
- presents data obtained from the NIAID Influenza Genome Sequencing Project as well as from GenBank, combined with tools for flu sequence analysis. In addition, it provides links to other resources that contain flu sequences, publications and general information about flu viruses.
- Mystery of 1918 flu pandemic solved
- Special Report from Guardian Unlimited (6th February 2004) about the discovery of the structure of the 1918 influenza virus
Written/produced by: Radford, Tim. - Orthomyxoviridae Genomes
- A list of complete genomes for influenza viruses from NCBI
Written/produced by: US National Center for Biotechnology Information.