Pandemic Flu Awareness Week : October 3–9
http://www.fluwikie.com/index.php?n=Main.PFAW
Continuing the public health experiment, Flu Wiki in association with the blogosphere will use October 3–9 as Pandemic Flu Awareness Week.
Blogs, media and other sources of information who choose to participate can use Flu Wiki and its list of Links and Other Sources such as:
- CDC Avian Flu Page
- CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- WHO situation updates
to highlight just a few from the available list, and any of the other flu resources on the internet (here, for example, are the Phases of a Pandemic from the Basic Science section).
The purpose of Pandemic Flu Awareness Week, and the Flu Wiki, is to allow the dissemination of information down to the local level so that everyone can use each others’ experience, planning and ideas so as not to be left unawares should an actual pandemic occur. Like hurricanes, when a pandemic occurs can not be accurately predicted. Nonetheless, that which can be done in advance should be done, because eventually something will happen. Planning can only help, even if at the local level, it can’t prevent.
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