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Watching Swine Flu on the Web

~~Holy cow!~~ Holy pig!

Watching misinformation spread is sort of entertaining. Check out all the people who talk about not eating pork on Twitter. (The flu is not spread by eating pork.)

Hah! As I was writing this post, the latest xkcd appeared!

The CDC’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Twitter feed seems to be a frequently-updated source of sanity:

RSS Feed for CDC’s Swine Flu site

Maps
Google Map 1 (H1N1 Swine Flu)
Google Map 2 (”Swine Flu 2009″)
Google Map 3 (”HPAI H5N1 30-Day Outbreak Map”)

HealthMap (previously mentioned here) might be the most complete map visualization. HealthMap’s twitter feed is also interesting, but gives a more panicked impression than that of the CDC (see above)

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April 27th, 2009 | Category: Consumer Health Info, For Medical Libraryfolk, Technology | Subscribe to comments | Both comments and pings are currently closed

4 Responses to “Watching Swine Flu on the Web”

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Keith Nockels:
April 27th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Have started to add a swine flu page to our flu website, so very useful – thanks!
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Rachel:
April 27th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
I'm going to describe the misinformation about pork as "twitter-borne"
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Swine Flu | JoshKaner.com:
April 27th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
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Rudy:
April 28th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
David, this is great! Thanks so much!

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