Swine flu preparedness
April 27th, 2009 by ReinderJim Macdonald at Making Light has a good clearing-house post of All You Need To Know Generally About Flu: what it does to the body and how to prepare.
The Scienceblog Effect Measure gives more detail about the public policy aspects and the swine flu outbreak's progress.
People in the Netherlands planning to travel to the United States in the next few weeks, such as yours truly, need to keep an eye on the Dutch foreign ministry's travel advisory (in Dutch), which still has no official word on the epidemic. While I'm at it, here's the the one for Mexico.
On a personal note, I REALLY hope that this isn't the Big One. I was kinda planning to get married next year and would like to be alive to experience that.
