Full Coverage: Influenza
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News Stories
- Flu vaccine makers expect high production AP via Yahoo! News - Fri, Jun 23, 2006
- T-shirt mask could help in flu pandemic Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed, Jun 14, 2006
- Scientist seeks quicker Tamiflu at BBC - Fri, May 05, 2006
- Face Masks Analyzed As Aid in Flu Pandemic at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) - Fri, Apr 28, 2006
- Pandemic flu planning 'too slow' at BBC - Wed, Apr 26, 2006
Feature Articles
- Whom to Believe? at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) - Tue, Nov 22, 2005
- Q&A: Flu jabs at BBC - Tue, Nov 22, 2005
- Long-Predicted Flu Finally Tops Agenda at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) - Mon, Nov 07, 2005
- Unknowns Pose A Challenge for Preparedness Plan at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) - Thu, Nov 03, 2005
- Bush v. Bird Flu at TIME Magazine - Tue, Nov 01, 2005
- A Shot of Fear at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) - Fri, Oct 28, 2005
Opinion & Editorials
- Planning for Flu at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) - Fri, Apr 21, 2006
- Selling 'pandemic flu' through a language of fear at Christian Science Monitor - Tue, Mar 21, 2006
- Flu threat is real, we aren't ready at Arizona Republic - Tue, Jan 03, 2006
- Political jabs won't replenish vaccine stocks at The Guardian (UK). - Thu, Dec 01, 2005
- To protect public health, offer free flu shots at Des Moines Register - Fri, Nov 11, 2005
- Another flu-shot shortage at The Oregonian - Wed, Nov 09, 2005
Related Web Sites
- Centers for Disease Control: Influenza
- Includes updates on the October to May flu season in the U.S. Also has primer on the illness and types of flu viruses, and information on flu shots.
- American Experience: Influenza, 1918
- Examines the worst epidemic the U.S. has ever known, which killed more Americans than all the combat deaths of the 20th Century combined.
- Flu Shot Locator
- enter a zip code to find out where and when flu shots are dispensed. From the American Lung Association.
- FluWatch
- tool that enables physicians and consumers to track the spread of Influenza using surveillance maps. From the National Flu Surveillance Network.
- Influenza's Reach Over Time
- timeline that tracks the flu from 400 B.C. to the present. From MSNBC.
- Secrets of the Dead: Killer Flu
- background, clues, and evidence behind the 1918 influenza pandemic; from PBS.