May 08, 2009

CABI on Swine Flu

Pandemic or Panic? CABI Finds the Facts for Free on Swine Flu, aka H1N1 by Barbara Quint, Newsbreaks (May 7)

This is a nice illustration of the value of turning to the specialist aggregators: CAB International (CABI; www.cabi.org) has made its database of global health data free for the duration of the swine flu crisis.

"Even more exciting, it has initiated a handsome mashup called the CABI Swine Flu Dashboard (www.netvibes.com/cabialerts), a mélange of key sources, facts, search strategies, topical maps, and other content selected by its expert content editors. "

Posted by Gwen at May 8, 2009 04:21 AM