Avian Flu - What we need to know

Avian Flu Blog

This blog seeks to provide information on the avian flu. Given the danger that would be posed by a pandemic flu, and the circulation of H5N1 vuruses in parts of Asia that might trigger such a pandemic, and even the danger to agriculture involved in eliminating poultry that might harbor the disease, such a news source seems useful to the public health community, the media and indeed to the general public. The blog is perhaps prototypical of a class of uses of simple technology that can be used easily and inexpensively to disseminate information important to developing nations, and indeed to the global population.