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• Meta-topics
• Pandemic Flu Awareness Week
• Red Ribbon Pandemic Awareness Campaign
• Threat Assessment
• World Region Lookout Posts
• Personal Prepping including
  Water · Food · Power · Infection Control · Hygiene · Medical Treatment · Quarantine · Pregnancy · Communication · Security · Apartment Dwellers · Students/Youths · Financial · Psychological Factors · Convincing Others · Preppers by Location · Cultural Considerations and Their Impact on Individuals and Communities
• Societal Prepping including
  ReadyMoms Alliance · Community Preparations · The Role of Public Health Officials · Community Projects · Health Care Workers · Schools · Police · Military · Prisons · Co-operative Thinking
• Science including
  Drugs and Vaccines · Clusters · Fatality Rate · Evolution of H5N1 · Source of Infections · Hidden Sequences · Flu Experts · SusanC
• Lessons from 1918
• News Threads including
  Weekly News in Review · Not Bird Flu But Close News · Rumors · Fictional Stories
• Translations
• Humor
• Quotes

Meta-topics (About Flu Wiki)

• Forum Rules — Please Read
• The Large File Communications FTP Site

Using the forum (conversation space) to cooperatively build the wiki (structured information space)

• Forum.CooperativeThinkingExercises general idea of forum threads as an aid to build wiki pages
• Forum.CooperativeThinkingWater builds Consequences.WaterSupply
• Forum.Alternative Power-Technology Discussions builds Consequences.Electricity
• Forum.ProposalForAnOpenSourceAvianFluTreatmentDatabase builds Opinion.ProposalForAnOpenSourceAvianFluTreatmentDatabase
• Forum.CooperativeThinkingSimpleMasks builds Brainstorming.SimpleMasks
• Forum.AThankYouToTheWikie2 builds The “Forum Questions” Project.

• Announcing An Interview With Lewis Rubinson
• Q and A with Dr. Lewis Rubinson
• ReadyMoms Are Taking the Message National at the APHA expo in Washington D.C., Nov. 3 - 7, 2007
  • Part II
• United States Dept. of Health and Human Services Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog
• CDC Press Conference on Community Mitigation and New PSA’s
• Conference Summary, More on CDC Mitigation Strategy
• Unpacking the Interim Pre-pandemic Planning Guidance
• 2006 year end review H5N1 as pandemic threat by SusanC

Threat Assessment

Red Ribbon Pandemic Awareness Campaign

Pandemic Flu Awareness Week

• Pandemic Flu Awareness Week 2007

World Region Lookout Posts

• International Regions Lookout Posts

Prepping Tips and Lists (see also Anticipated Problems)

• Influenza Pandemic Preparation and Response - A Citizen’s Guide
  • See also the discussion about the Citizen’s Guide in the Forum here and here.
• Why We Need To Prep For More Than Two Weeks | Part 2
• Prepping For More Than 3 Months

General — for Newbies
(see also Pandemic Preparedness Guides)

• What if You Only Have 24hrs to Prep?
• Prepping - Just Starting Out
• “Master Prep List” by Owl
• Family and Individual Preparation
• Homeschool Lessons on Preparedness
• Prep List for Disaster (Documentation)
• Food for the Car

General — For Intermediate and Senior Preppers

• Preps List
• Prep Items That May Become Scarce Early On

General — Summary of Personal Prepping Diaries

• Summary of Personal Prepping Diaries

Water

• Water-Water-Water, A Necessary Prep
• Water Diary
• Update on Water
• Water Storage and Freezing Temperatures

Food

• Storage and Preservation
  • No Cook, No Refrigeration Prep Shopping List
  • Canning and Pressure Cooking
  • Food Storage
  • Dehydrating Foods: Methods and Recipes
• Recipes and Cooking
  • General Recipes
  • Recipes for Canned Dry Goods Only
  • Storage Food Recipes
  • Basic Bread Recipes
  • Solar Oven Recipes and Tips
  • Cooking Stove and The Prepper’s Stove for In the House

Power, Heat, Light

• Surviving Without the Grid - A Resource (see also an Opinion on Keeping the Grid UP)
• Solar Backup Power
• Power, Heat & Light
• Prep: Heat, Light & Energy, decentralized safety
• Generators
• Survival Tools

Infection Control (see also Prevention)

• Setting Up A Sick Room (see also Sick Room)
• Masks

Personal Hygiene, Birth Control, and Related Topics (see also Personal Hygiene)

• (Don’t Forget the Paperwork) Toilet Paper
• Homemade Cleaning Products

Drugs, Vaccines and Medical Treatments (see also Antivirals, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Personal Stockpiling of Tamiflu, Vaccines)

• Vaccines
  • Is the US Building new vaccine plants?
  • Vaccine Liability Proclamation
  • Enough Pandemic Vaccine for the Whole World?
• Tamiflu
  • Link to Tamiflu diaries
• Obtaining Drugs
  • Consumer Drug Stockpiling for the Coming Pandemic
• First Aid
  • Patient Daily Record, ideas for the development of a standardized form
  • Home Health Care Tips
  • Home Remedies
• CPAP
  • Keeping a CPAP Running When Utilities are Unreliable

When to Begin Quarantine (see also Isolation And Quarantine)

• What are you doing during Just At Home (JAH) pandemic | Part 2
• Mandatory Quarantine

Expectant Mothers and Parents (see also Vaccines and Pregnancy)

• Need new diary

Communication

• Communications
• Radio Communication

Security and Safety

• 3rd + Update Prep List (Other Security Items)
• 5th Update Prep List Shelter In Place

Apartment Dwellers

• Apartment and Multi-Family Dwelling Prepping

Students/ Youth

• Student and Youth Preppers (contains link to Students Prep America website )
• Talking to kids about death-tips and techniques
• A College Student’s Go-Bag List
• Colleges and Universities

Financial Planning (see also Economic Concerns)

• Paying Bills
• Cashflow: Your Plan
• Financial Survival Plan
• Life Insurance
• Would a Pandemic Crash the U.S. Dollar?
• Stock Investments
• Stock Market and the Bird Flu
• Pandemic Defence Venture Capital Fund
• Investment Portfolios

Psychological Factors (see also Adjustment Reactions, How To Cope)

• The Worst Case Scenario - Denial As an Adjustment Reaction
• Prepping As Escapist Behaviour?
• Are We Worrying Over Nothing?
• How to Stay Sane During Self-Imposed Quarantine?
• Isolation, or, Making the Best of It
• Psychiatric Stress Discussion
• Psychiatry and Pandemic
• I’ve Stopped Prepping
• Why I Stopped Posting
• Thinking Too Much About Bird Flu

Convincing Others (see also How To Discuss Pandemic Preparedness With Medical People)

• Bird Flu Book Online
• Deaf Ears
• How Do You Get Others to Prepare?
• Bird Flu Evangelism
• The Psychology of “No Preparation”
• Physicians Don’t Take This Seriously
• What Are Companies Doing To Prepare Employees

Special Dietary Groups

• Vegetarians and Vegans
• Cooking With TVP
• TVP: Textured Vegetable Protein

Pets and Farm Animals

• Livestock Protection and Isolation
• Dogs and Neighbors
• Pets Being Allowed Outside?

Entertainment Needs (see also How To Cope)

• Must-Have Family Reading
• Book List

Area Preparations

• Finding Area Preppers
• Australia and New Zealand
  Australia and New Zealand
• European Preppers
  United Kingdom | Scotland | Scandinavia | Norway
• North American Preppers
  • Canada
    • Maritimes
    • Ontario
    • Quebec
    • Western Canada
  • United States of America (choose your state from the table on the Diary page)

Cultural Considerations and Their Impact on Individuals and Communities
See also Cultural Considerations and Their Impact On Individuals and Communities on the Wiki.

Societal Preps (see also Anticipated Problems)

ReadyMoms Alliance

• ReadyMoms Are Taking The Message National!
• ReadyMoms Go National-Again! Emergency Management Summit
• ReadyMoms.org-In Massachusetts!
• Update on ReadyMoms
• ACM’s Maryland presentation
• ReadyMoms Need Help With College Student Prep Please!
• Two Week “Basic Box” Food Prep Display
• ReadyMoms at the American College Health Association Annual Meeting

Community Preps
Community Awareness & Preparedness (CAP) Presentation Material

• What Does an All-Hazards Presentation Look Like
• Fallout from School Board Meeting

Community projects

• Promoting Community Resilience for a Pandemic
• How Can a Neighborhood Help Each Other?
• Parish-centered Pandemic Flu PowerPoint Slideshow
• The church role: before, during, and after a pandemic.

The Role of Public Health Officials

• The Government’s Duty to Inform part 1 - Human Rights and Public Health | Part 2 - Negligence Liability
• Mandatory Quarantine

Health Care Workers (see also HCW Safety During A Pandemic)

• Will Health Workers Report to Work
• Hospital Preps
• Healthcare Workers: Collective Action

Schools

• Pandemic Lessons for Schools
• How Ready Are States to Close Schools? | Part II
• School Closings And Student Dismissals
• What Do You Tell Your School Board When It Asks About Avian Flu Readiness?
• School Nutrition and Pandemic Influenza
• Final HHS Webcast (of this series)-Dept of Education and school closure

Police

• A Meeting With Police Executives
• Law Enforcement During a Severe Pandemic

Military

• What is the Military Doing to Prepare? | Military Families | National Guard

Prisons

• Prison Prepping

Science of H5N1 (see also Influenza Basic science)

Evolution of H5N1

• Random Mutation, Reassortment and Recombination
  Random Mutation, Reassortment and Recombination
• G228S Acquisition
• H5N1 Evolving Towards Pandemic Strain
• Evolution of the Bug
• Indications Bird Flu Mutating
• H5N1 Receptor Binding
• Why Does it Spread in Waves?

Clusters of cases see also H5N1 clusters

India and Bangladesh Outbreaks

• India, Bangladesh

Pakistan Outbreaks

• Pakistan

Indonesia Outbreaks

• Daily Indonesia News and Discussion Diaries

Egyptian Outbreaks

• Egypt

Russian Outbreaks

• Russia

Fatality Rate

• Must a Pandemic Strain of Influenza decrease in lethality?
• A Severe Pandemic is likely (see also an Opinion on A Severe Pandemic is Likely |
• 50 Fatal
• Case Fatality Rates of the Under15yo
• Case Fatality Rate
• Mass Fatality Management Plans

Source of Infections

• Are Humans and Other Mammals the Source of Most H5N1 Infections in Humans?
• Are Human to Human and Mammal to Human Transmission the Source of Most H5N1 Infections in Humans?
• Final Adaptation of H5N1 to Humans - Role of Mammalian Reservoirs
• H5N1 Spreads More Efficiently H2H Than B2H
• Pigs In China - The Hidden Mammalian Reservoir For H5N1?

Hidden Sequences Controversy

Flu Experts

• Dr. Taubenberger Speaks

SusanC (aka Anon_22)

• Tamiflu UK-Part 1: How (not) to do distribution | Tamiflu UK-Part 2: Let’s see if we can do better…
• Tamiflu UK-Part 3: When there isn’t enough | Tamiflu UK-Part 4: Efficacy and Resistance

Lessons From 1918 (see also 1918 Pandemic Flu Wiki Page and 1918 Resources Page)

• How Families Coped in 1918
• Do Scientists Know why in 1918…
• Strange 1918 Data
• Explanation for “W” Curve in 1918 Deaths
• 1918 Shortages
• Homeopathic Treatment in 1918
• Similarity to 1918
• 1918 Manure Connection
• Post-1918 Economics
• Chances of a Pandemic Like 1918
• 1918 Hometown Newspaper
• 1918 Parallels

In Other Media/ Analysis (for general news see below)

Weekly News in Review

• Weekly News Summary

News Report Archive

• Aug 18
• Aug 17
• Aug 16
• Aug 15
• Aug 14
• Aug 13
• Aug 12
• Aug 11
• Aug 10
• Aug 9

• Not Bird Flu But Close News II | Not Bird Flu But Close News 4 | Not Bird Flu But Close News 5
• Not Bird Flu But Close May 8 | Not Bird Flu But Close June 3 | Not Bird Flu But Close July 30 | Not Bird Flu But Close Oct 12
• Not Bird Flu But Close Jan 10

Rumors
* New Rumors XIV | New Rumors Dec 1 to… | New Rumors Jan 1 to… | New Rumors March 20 to…2007

• Rumors April 2008 thru …

Fictional Stories

• CanadaSue’s Scenario written by CanadaSue
• Connections written by k2g2b
• A Better Story To Be In | Part 2 | Part 3 written by KathyInFl

Translations

• En Espanol - Influenza Pandemic Preparation and Response: A Citizen’s Guide
• Português - Influenza Pandemic Preparation and Response: A Citizen’s Guide

Humor To help you come back down to Earth

• A Diary For The FluWiki Tired | Dark Humor for Dark Times | Humor

Great FluWiki Quotes

• Great Ben Franklin Quotes
• The FluWiki Forum Quotes Hall of Fame