Swine flu science: overview

Below you will find a range of links to international scientific resources on swine flu.

Journals and research

• The Lancet H1N1 Flu Resource Centre brings together swine flu related content from over 40 journals and 11 learned societies. Free access to all content.
• Nature includes articles on the history of swine flu and a blog rounding up the latest swine flu news from around the globe.
• The New England Journal of Medicine H1N1 Influenza Center features articles, review papers and surveillance updates of swine flu news.
• The British Medical Journal’s swine flu blog is updated regularly. The site also has a swine flu patient information leaflet and a section on swine flu in BMJ BestPractice.
• The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP). A good resource with the latest news, and a useful overview of the pandemic.
• Eurosurveillance. An open access peer-reviewed journal about infectious diseases surveillance, prevention and control.
• PatientUK has swine flu information for patients as given by healthcare professionals.

UK government

• Health Protection Agency
• Department of Health
• Chief Medical Officer for England 
• Scotland: Health Protection Scotland
• Wales: National Public Health Service for Wales
• Northern Ireland: nidirect 

International government

• World Health Organization Pandemic (H1N1) 2009
• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
• US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• US Pandemic Flu.gov
• US National Library of Medicine. Enviro-Health links 2009 H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) 
• Medline Plus, health information for the US public
• Promed, from the international society for infectious diseases, is a useful electronic global reporting system for emerging infectious diseases.

Genetics

• Gene sequencing and related resources. GenBank, National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Database of influenza genomic sequences and related information. BioHealthBase Bioinformatics Resource Center
• Analysis of genetic data for the origin and evolution of swine flu virus. Human/Swine A/H1N1 Influenza Origins and Evolution

Portals

• NHS Evidence. Swine Flu
• Intute, best of the web. Swine flu

Web2.0 resources

• Flu Wiki
• Wikipedia. 2009 flu pandemic
• Flu tracker Map
• HealthMap. Global Disease Alert Map Microsoft Bing. 2009 Swine Flu H1N1 Outbreak and Migration Map
• Facebook group. AH1N1 Swine Flu 2009
• Google.org. Explore flu trends around the world
• Twitter aggregator. Outbreak.tweetmeme
• A/H1N1 Influenza Outbreak Timeline 

Health & Medical organisations

• The Royal College of General Practitioners: Information for GPs looking to prepare for enquiries about H1N1 and a preparation checklist
• British Medical Association: pandemic flu guidance for GPs  

Blogs, alerts and other tools

• WHO: interactive swine flu map
• Nature blog: swine flu