Germ Sleuths Stalk Origin of Killer Flu

from the Wall Street Journal…
by DAVID LUHNOW, JOSE DE CORDOBA and GAUTAM NAIK
MEXICO CITY — “I’ve got some bad news.”
The voice on the conference call last week was Frank Plummer, a Canadian scientist who had just spent 24 hours analyzing virus samples from 51 seriously ill people in Mexico.
The news: Seventeen people carried a completely [...]

HealthMap available to view global state of infectious disease

About HealthMap
HealthMap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. This freely available Web site integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such [...]