SOCIAL MEDIA MEETS H1N1 – OUTBREAKS NEAR ME As an iPhone user I am always looking at cool new apps. As an emergency manager I am always trying to find ways to make information more available and easy to use. Viola! A new iPhone application, created by researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab, does all of that and it is about diseases (my third favorite thing1!) This app enables [...]
H1N1 (Swine Flu): Ten Exposed Presidents, Mysterious Killer Flu in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Anderson Cooper is into the Flu! (Is that a good thing?)
Over the weekend I was in Singapore, I switched on CNN and happen to catch the President of Argentina, greeting all of the other South American Presidents at a Summit hosted in Argentina (the H1N1 center of South America) and in the usual wonderful fashion as is that part of the world, they were all hugging and kissing each other…I was thinking to myself…I know it is the custom but is that really smart with [...]
H1N1 (Swine Flu): Something Else to Worry About?!? What Happens When Animals And People Start Exchanging H1N1? Turkeys In Chile, People Infecting Pigs
H1N1 TRANSFERRED TO TURKEYS FROM HUMANS IN CHILE. I have been following this story when it was first suspected in Chile last week. The genetic studies of the viruses are now in and it has been confirmed that workers infected a flock of Turkeys in Chile with H1N1. Wow! The detection of an H1N1 virus in turkeys in Chile raises concern that poultry farms elsewhere in the world could also become infected with the pandemic [...]
H1N1 (Swine Flu): INFLUENZA – UNPREDICTIBLE H1N1
Two interesting articles caught my attention over the past two days – both about the unpredictable nature of influenza…it turns out the crystal ball might be a bit cloudy! LOOKING TO THE PAST TO PREDICT THE FUTURE We often look to the past in a way of predicting the future – it is one thing that can help us in forecasting illness. A commonly held belief that severe influenza pandemics are preceded by a milder [...]
