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Technology Can Help Focus on Bird Flu Scenarios

Posted by Shawn Riley in Friday, May 1st 2009   
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John Thompson, National Sheriffs Association, suggests in this sound bite that scenario-based software used to study fire or WMD incidents can be used to examine what would happen in the event of a major flu outbreak.  Kinda’ like the one we are having right now…..

Follow H1N1 via the CDC and http://swineflu.blokcast.com

Posted by Shawn Riley in Friday, May 1st 2009   
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The CDC has created a YouTube streaming channel to share information about the H1N1 flu strain.  The channel give up to the minute videos coming from health ministries and international health organizations as they determine just how bad H1N1 is.
Additionally, the http://swineflu.blokcast.com folks have put together an excellent feed site.  Tom Stitt ( @tstitt ) [...]

State and local public health officials in Minnesota responding aggressively to potential swine flu threat

Posted by Shawn Riley in Tuesday, April 28th 2009   
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The following is a republish of a Minnesota Department of Health announcement:
State and local public health officials are taking aggressive steps in response to the unusual strain of swine influenza that has been making people ill in Mexico and parts of the U.S.
Since last Thursday, officials at the Minnesota Department of Health have been asking [...]

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