Some of the latest information relating to influenza can be found at the following internet locations:
Victorian Infectious Disease Laboratory (VIDRL) This website provides surveillance information for Victoria, Australia.
Communicable Diseases Australia This website provides surveillance information for Australia and New Zealand.
South
Australian Communicable Disease Control Branch (CDCB) This website provides
information on cases of flu & flu-like illness and other common respiratory
illnesses in the South Australian community on a weekly basis.
Institute
of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) The ESR website provides weekly
influenza consultation rates and sentinel surveillance reports for New Zealand.
Influenza in New Zealand This website provides influenza information about New Zealand.
FluNet WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Network.
Centres for Disease Control (CDC) The CDC website contains general influenza information, US surveillance data, and information on vaccines, antivirals and H5N1.
National Institute for Infectious Disease (NIID) Provides surveillance graphs and tables on influenza throughout Japan through the Infectious Agents Surveillance Report.
Health Canada - Flu Watch.
Health Protection Agency (Formerly the Public Health Laboratory Service - PHLS) The HPA website provides influenza surveillance reports for the UK.
EuroGROG The EuroGROG Bulletin gives you a global view of the situation of influenza at a glance in 29 European countries spanning from Iceland to the far east of Russia.
European Influenza Surveillance Scheme (EISS) Provides virological and clinical data concerning influenza in 23 European countries.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease The NIAID website provides information on influenza including the mutation of virus strains and vaccination guidelines.
Influenza Bibliography The Medical Research Council Library bibliography website is up-dated every two to three months and contains influenza related abstract titles from 1993 to present.
All
Virology on the www - Influenza Links.
Please note: some of these drugs may not be available in all countries
Zanamivir (Relenza) or more information
Oseltamivir
(Tamiflu) or more
information
Rimantadine
(Flumadine) or more
information
Amantadine
(Symmetrel, also available in generic forms) or more
information
Influenza Sequence Database Los Alamos
Publications
Pan American Health Organisation Online Bookstore
They have publications currently available on:
- Vaccines: Preventing Disease & Protecting Health
- The Challenge of Epidemiology
- Violence against Women: The Health Sector Responds
- Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals
- Building Better Health: A Handbook of Behavioral Change
- Youth: Choices and Change
- Health in the Americas