Avian Flu Resources

Note: Not all of the following materials are issued by US government agencies

Government Agency Resources

• PandemicFlu.gov (Official US Government site for information on pandemic and avian flu)
  http://www.pandemicflu.gov/

• Influenza (Flu)--National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Information Page, including a page specifically on Avian Flu.
  http://www.cdc.gov/flu/ 

• Transcript of Technical Briefing regarding Avian Influenza U.S. Department of Agriculture - Washington D.C. - October 26, 2005
  http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=tru%C2%AD&contentid=2005/10/0461.xml 

• Guidance for Protecting Workers Against Avian Flu (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
  http://www.osha.gov/dsg/guidance/avian-flu.html

• Avian Flu Fact Sheet (Department of State for travelers)
  http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/health/health_1181.html
   

• Avian Influenza (National Wildlife Health Center)
  http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/research/avian_influenza/avian_influenza.html
   

• National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza (Homeland Security)
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/nspi.pdf
   

• Bird Flu (Medline Plus from the National Library of Medicine)
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/birdflu.html
   

• News in Health (October 2005 issue on Flu from the National Institute on Health)
  http://newsinhealth.nih.gov/PastIssue/October2005/index.htm
   

• What to do About Flu (National Institute on Aging)
  http://www.niapublications.org/engagepages/flu.asp
  http://www.niapublications.org/spnagepages/flu-sp.asp (Spanish version)
   

Congressional Resources

• The Threat of and Planning for Pandemic Flu: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, May 26, 2005 [Serial 109-21]
  PDF version    Text version
   

• The Next Flu Pandemic: Evaluating U.S. Readiness: Hearing Before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, June 30, 2005 [Serial 109-49]
  PDF version
   

• CQ Weekly Database (CSUSM Users Only)
  Type "flu" in the Quick Search box. You can sort results by date by clicking on the small arrows next to the date column header.
   

International Resources

• Avian Influenza: World Health Organization (WHO)
  http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/en/
   

• Influenza (including Avian): European Commission Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General (part of the European Union)
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/health_consumer/dyna/influenza/index.cfm
   

• European Influenza Surveillance Scheme (European Union plus Norway, Romania and Switzerland)
  http://www.eiss.org/index.cgi
   

In the CSUSM Collection

• The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
  RA651 .G37 1994 
   

• The Epidemic That Never Was: Policy-making and the Swine Flu Scare
  RA644.I6 N48 1983
   

• America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918
  RA644.I6 C76 2003
   

CSUSM Librarians are able to help you locate further resources!

• Yvonne Nalani Meulemans, Science Librarian

• Judith Downie, Humanities and Government Documents Librarian

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