H1N1 Influenza A  Tags: public health  

Taking care of a sick person in your home (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/guidance_homecare.htm

Are you wondering if you or someone in your home has the H1N1 (Swine) flu? Try one of these self-assessment tools:

https://h1n1.cloudapp.net/Default.aspx Developed by Microsoft partnering with Emory University.

http://www.flu.gov/evaluation/ Developed by the US DHHS

http://www.publichealth.va.gov/h1n1flu/ Developed by the Veterans Affairs for veterans and their caregivers

Click on "change location" and type in a city and state, or zip code of area you wish to search for flu shot clinics.

http://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/mapplets/flushot/flushot.xml

Additional podcast RSS feeds from the CDC are found at
http://www2a.cdc.gov/podcasts/rss.asp

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More information available at:
http://www.who.int/en/
(Note: Nebraska's Central Daylight Time is GMT-5 hours. Central Standard Time (begins Nov 2009) is GMT-6 hours.)

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Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services H1N1 Influenza
http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/H1N1Flu/
This page includes links to School and Child Health Guidance, and Audio & Video Resources

Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services News Releases page
http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/newsroom/newsreleases/
Catch up on the latest news releases from the Nebraska DHHS

Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Twitter page
http://twitter.com/Nebraska

Nebraska State & Local Planning & Response Activities
http://www.flu.gov/professional/states/nebraska.html

UNMC - Understanding the H1N1 Virus
http://www.unmc.edu/flu/
More news on the flu at the UNMC homepage
http://www.unmc.edu/

UNMC Flu Hotline: (402) 599-9996

Link to UNMC 2009-2010 Flu Policy
http://app1.unmc.edu/PublicAffairs/TodaySite/images/siteimages/NU20092010Flu.pdf

Link to UNMC Student Health Outpatient Clnic page
http://www.unmc.edu/familymed/studenthealth.htm

Consumer Health Information Resource Service
http://www.unmc.edu/library/consumer
Information resource service for patients/consumers (free for Nebraskans and anyone treated by the Nebraska Medical Center)

Creighton Health Science Library links for H1N1 Influenza information
http://www2.creighton.edu/health/library/

University of Iowa Grand Rounds Series: Emerging Issue: Novel Influenza A (H1N1) - Patricia Quinlisk, MD, MPH, State Epidemiologist and Medical Director, Iowa Department of Public Health. Archive of May 6, 2009 presentation.
http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/icphp/grand_rounds/current_session/gr050609.html

National Library of Medicine page listing links to RSS Feeds for news, podcasts, and webcasts
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/listserv/rss_podcasts.html

Know What To Do About the Flu http://www.flu.gov/

PubMed articles on Swine Flu/H1N1 Influenza
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Search&db=pubmed&term=(flu%20OR%20influenza%20OR%20h1n1)%20AND%20(swine%20OR%20porcine)&pubmedfilters=true

GenBank sequences from pandemic (H1N1) 2009 viruses
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/FLU/SwineFlu.html

MedlinePlus Health Topic page on H1N1 Influenza
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/h1n1fluswineflu.html

MedlinePlus Health Topic page in Spanish on H1N1 Influenza
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/h1n1fluswineflu.html

Specialized Information Services page on H1N1 Influenza, including transmission, prevention, treatment, and genetic makeup
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/swineflu.html

European Centre for Disease Prevention & Control
http://ecdc.europa.eu/

Health Canada
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/index-eng.php

Pan American Health Organization
http://new.paho.org/hq/

The New England Journal of Medicine has a page created for users to "read original research reports, news, and commentary about the current outbreak and view an interactive map of cases worldwide.
http://h1n1.nejm.org/

The Lancet's H1N1 Resource Centre is the result of a collaborative effort by the editors of over 40 Elsevier-published journals and 11 learned societies who have agreed to make freely available on this site any relevant content. All papers have been selected by a Lancet editor, grouped by topic and fulltext pdfs made available to download free of charge.
http://www.thelancet.com/H1N1-flu

IOM Releases Guide to Recent Work on Pandemic Flu
    
Pandemic Influenza: A Guide to Recent Institute of Medicine Studies and Workshops
This guide highlights action and information that could be useful for near-term implementation of pandemic planning and response in the following areas:
    * Communicating with and engaging the public
    * Use of masks and personal protective equipment
    * Use of antiviral drugs and vaccines
    * Outbreak mitigation (e.g., social distancing, school closures)
    * Surveillance, research, and evaluation during a pandemic

The guide is available online http://tinyurl.com/dxxk86

or for download as a PDF http://tinyurl.com/cafb9m

Also, President Harvey V. Fineberg has made his book on the 1976 swine flu outbreak, The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease , available as a free PDF http://tinyurl.com/c7ol69

The book examines the U.S. government's swine flu immunization program in the wake of an outbreak of the disease among a small group of soldiers at Fort Dix. The program was marked by controversy, delay, administrative troubles, legal complications, unforeseen side effects and a progressive loss of credibility for public health authorities. The book is dedicated to co-author Richard Neustadt, and extracts lessons to help cope with similar situations in the future.

The CDC, International Society for Disease Surveillance, and the Public Health Informatics Institute have partnered to create this surveillance tool to monitor Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) visits to Emergency Departments:

Distribute http://www.isdsdistribute.org/

American College Health Association
Influenza-like Illness (ILI) reported in colleges and universities
http://www.acha.org/ILI_Surveillance.cfm

Pandemic Preparedness in the Workplace and the Americans With Disabilities Act
http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/pandemic_flu.html

EBSCO's DynaMed has made the main elements of the H1N1 Influenza clinical summary free to health care providers and institutions around the world.
http://www.ebscohost.com/
dynamed/h1n1/

CABI's Global Health database is now free to access. You can search the database through this link:
http://www.cabdirect.org/
globalhealth

CABI has also developed a "dashboard" that brings together up to the minute information on H1N1 Influenza:
http://www.netvibes.com/cabialerts

Developed by Patricia Anderson, a librarian with the University of Michigan, this iGoogle tab includes links to 18 Google gadgets that you can load on to your iGoogle homepage. These gadgets are useful in keeping up with the H1N1 Influenza news.
http://tinyurl.com/cjma3l

From the site http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/28qm4w0q65e4w/1#:

A moderated collection for rapid and open sharing of useful new scientific data, analyses, and ideas.

The current epidemic of swine-origin H1N1 influenza A virus highlights the need for the rapid exchange of scientific results and ideas. PLoS Currents: Influenza aims to enable this exchange by providing an open-access online resource for immediate, open communication and discussion of new scientific data, analyses, and ideas in the field of influenza. All content is moderated by an expert group of influenza researchers.