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- Healthmap (http://healthmap.org/en) brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. The data is aggregated by disease and displayed by location for user-friendly access to the original alert. HealthMap provides a jumping-off point for real-time information on emerging infectious diseases and has particular interest for public health officials and international travelers.
- Disease Outbreak News (http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/)
- Google Alerts to monitor the H1N1 developing news story
(http://www.google.com/alerts?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&t=1) - Fast evolving Wikipedia 2009 swine flu outbreak article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_flu)
- Google map of H1N1 Swine Flu:
— Pink markers are suspect
— Purple markers are confirmed
— Deaths lack a dot in marker
Jorn at Robot Wisdom has a link to an item that suggests a connection to unsanitary conditions at the Smithfield-owned pig farms in Mexico which currently have almost a million pigs in the area of the outbreak. This has been reported in the Mexican press, but is being ignored here.
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