Academic Resources: topical resources: avian flu
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research tools
Avian and Human Influenza, World Bank
Avian Flu (Bird Flu), Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Avian Influenza Response, USAID
Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR), Avian Influenza, World Health Organization (WHO)
FluAid, a test version of software created by programmers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is designed to assist state and local level planners in preparing for the next influenza pandemic by providing estimates of potential impact specific to their locality. FluAid provides only a range of estimates of impact in terms of deaths, hospitalizations, and outpatients visits due to pandemic influenza. The software cannot describe when or how people will become ill, nor how a pandemic may spread through a society over time.
FluSurge (CDC) is a spreadsheet-based model which provides hospital administrators and public health officials estimates of the surge in demand for hospital-based services during the next influenza pandemic. FluSurge estimates the number of hospitalizations and deaths of an influenza pandemic (whose length and virulence are determined by the user) and compares the number of persons hospitalized, the number of persons requiring ICU care, and the number of persons requiring ventilator support during a pandemic with existing hospital capacity.
Global Health Council Avian Flu Resources
How bird flu has spread, interactive map from the BBC News
Pandemic Influenza, National Vaccine Program Office, U.S Department of Health and Human Services
PandemicFlu.Gov, the official U.S. government Web site for information on pandemic flu and avian influenza
publications
Avian Influenza: The USAID Response (pdf), Dr. Murray Trostle, October 20, 2005
Emerging Pandemic: Costs and Consequences of an Avian Influenza Outbreak, a video from Global Health Initiative
Responding to the avian influenza pandemic threat: Recommended strategic actions (pdf), World Health Organization, 2005
discussions
H5N1 - Killer Flu, PBS Discussions Forum
updated March 31, 2007