Additional Reading
Some Interesting Web Sites
- World Health Organization Avian Influenza Site
This site provides information on the Avian Flu
- World Health Organization Influenza Site
This site provides information on the following topics associated with influenza: an overview, the
virus, pandemic influenza, transmission, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.
- US CDC Flu Information Site Navigate through this site to
learn about information on the features of influenza and the history of the disease. Some statistics on mortality are
included. Also, read about the different types of flu viruses and learn hot the flu can spread and change. This site
also provides statistics about how many people are hospitalized due to the influenza virus each year.
- World of Microbes (U of Wisconsin)
This site provides information on the influenza virus.
- Focus on the Flu (National Insitute of Health - NIAID)
This site provides information on the flu including the virus, the immune response to the flu, prevention, treatment, and diagnostics.
Information on the ever-changing flu virus and predictions and preparations for a future flu pandemic are addressed.
- PBS Timeline of the Influenza Epidemic
This site provides a timeline of the influenza epidemic from March 1918 to December 1918 with the
description of what happened during these months.
- PBS: Map of the Epidemic of the Influenza in 1918
This site has a map showing the progression of the influenza before September 14th to after October 5th, 1918.
A death rate in the United States is also provided by the months.
- PBS: Rupert Blue
This site describes the role the Surgeon General of the United States in 1918, Rupert Blue,
had played in combating and containing the influenza epidemic of 1918.