Flu in the Civic Sphere

CLG's "flu oddities" page http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities_shortnews.html, http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html

ACLU: against post-9/11 law enforcement approaches to pandemic prep
MSEHPA critique http://www.aclu.org/privacy/medical/14857res20020101.html
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/gen/33649prs20080114.html
http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/privacy/pemic_report.pdf
In addition, a number of specific recommendations are made for a sounder approach to pandemic preparedness that protects health while safeguarding liberty, privacy and democracy. These include the following:
• Stockpiling and ensuring fair and efficient distribution and rationing of vaccines and medication;
• Emphasizing community engagement rather than individual responsibility;
• Protecting minorities and socially disadvantaged individuals from discriminatory rationing schemes for vaccination and treatment or from bearing the burden of coercive health measures;
• Relying wherever possible on voluntary social distancing measures rather than mandatory quarantines;
• Providing counsel and procedural protections to those individuals proposed for detention or travel restrictions;
• Protecting individual privacy in disease surveillance and investigation; and
• Ensuring that public health actors remain accountable for their actions in accordance with the law.

Sunshine Project
critique Spanish flu resurrection http://www.sunshine-project.org/publications/pr/pr091003.html, http://www.sunshine-project.org/publications/pr/pr051005.html

Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management:
Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: Adaptive Responses to an Evolving Challenge, 2006 http://www.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?context=jhsem&article=1233&date=&mt=MTIyNjM4NTg1Mw==&access_ok_form=Continue
Pandemic Influenza Tabletop Exercises: A Primer for the Classroom and Beyond, 2008 http://www.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?context=jhsem&article=1453&date=&mt=MTIyNjM4NTc3Mw==&access_ok_form=Continue

BULLETIN OF ATOMIC SCIENTISTS
2007 Children as Bioterrorists http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn/children-the-bioterrorists-we-love

2008 Flu unlikely Bt http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/the-challenges-of-developing-synthetic-pathogens

INFO
case tracking http://www.fluwikie.com/pmwiki.php?n=Main.ConfirmedCasesUpdated

individual preparedness
http://www.getpandemicready.org/

BLOGS
on biden and bird flu http://blogs.nature.com/nm/spoonful/2008/08/biden_on_bird_flu_1.html

MSEHPA critique http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/blaw/bt/MSEHPA_review.htm