Protecting your home and community

Infectious Disease, Including Flu

All Infectious Disease

United States

Health Map

HealthMap, a team of researchers, epidemiologists and software developers at Boston Children’s Hospital founded in 2006, is an established global leader in utilizing online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

CDC’s mission is to work 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.

CDC increases the health security of our nation. As the nation’s health protection agency, CDC saves lives and protects people from health threats. To accomplish our mission, CDC conducts critical science and provides health information that protects our nation against expensive and dangerous health threats, and responds when these arise.

Worldwide

World Health Organization Global Alert and Response (GAR)

An integrated global alert and response system for epidemics and other public health emergencies based on strong national public health systems and capacity and an effective international system for coordinated response.

Council on Foreign Relations Vaccine-Preventable Outbreaks Map

This interactive map visually plots global outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, rubella, and other diseases that are easily preventable by inexpensive and effective vaccines. The Global Health Program at the Council on Foreign Relations has been tracking news reports on these outbreaks since the fall of 2008. This project aims to promote awareness of a global health program that is easily preventable.

Influenza (the flu)

United States

Flu Near You

Flu Near You is a site administered by Healthmap of Boston Children’s Hospital in partnership with the American Public Health Association and the Skoll Global Threats Fund.

  • See flu activity in your area
  • Find nearby locations offering flu vaccines
  • Complete quick surveys to advance our collective understanding of the flu
  • Visualize flu trends
  • Connect with local public health organizations

CDC Seasonal Influenza Site

Includes basic information about flu, plus resources for individuals, families, businesses, health professionals and others.

Europe

Influenzanet

Influenzanet is a system to monitor the activity of influenza-like-illness (ILI) with the aid of volunteers via the internet. It has been operational in The Netherlands and Belgium (since 2003), Portugal (since 2005), Italy (since 2008) and United Kingdom (since 2009), and the current objective is to implement Influenzanet in more European countries. In contrast with the traditional system of sentinel networks of mainly primary care physicians, Influenzanet obtains its data directly from the population. This creates a fast and flexible monitoring system whose uniformity allows for direct comparison of ILI rates between countries.

 

Food Borne Illness

Barfblog

barfblog.com is where Drs. Powell, Chapman, Hubbell and assorted food safety friends offer evidence-based opinions on current food safety issues. Opinions must be evidence-based – with references – reliable and relevant. The barfblog authors edit each other, often viciously.

 

Pitch in! The resource page is always a work in progress. If you know about infectious disease resources you’d like to see included here, please let us know about it!

 

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