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Pandemic Flu Links

From MTA

See our Environmental Health & Safety section for more information.

Materials for MTA Leaders
Local presidents can log in for information about local planning and bargaining issues.

Media Coverage

Avian Flu, The New York Times
The New York Times' special section includes article going back to 1981 and many multimedia features.
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Bird Flu: Fears, Facts and Fiction, ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/AvianFlu/

Focus on Bird Flu, Washington Post
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Public Health Information

Mass. Dept. of Public Health Influenza Web Site
http://www.mass.gov/dph/cdc/epii/flu/flu1.htm

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
http://www.pandemicflu.gov

School & Campus Planning Checklists:
Prek-12 School Districts: http://www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/pdf/schoolchecklist.pdf
Higher Education: http://www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/pdf/colleges_universities.pdf

World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/en/index.html

Lesson Plans

Bird Flu: The Next Pandemic?
Written by Lisa Prososki, a former middle and high school teacher, for PBS Newshour. Recommended for secondary school life science, biology, health, and current events classes.

Secrets of the Dead: Identifying Viruses
For middle and high school science classes, Uses the 1918 influenza pandemic to teach about the use of electrophoresis and DNA fingerprinting. PBS also offers video clips from the Secrets of the Dead program through this Web site.

Geographic Diffusion of Disease: The Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919
National Geographic Society lesson plan for high schools.

Hot Topics in Biology: Bird Flu
Free teaching resources from Baylor College of Medicine's BioEd Online Web site. Teachers can download PowerPoint slides with speaker's notes and full citations for use in their own lessons.

Pandemics and Security
Developed by a former teacher for the Foreign Policy Association for high school social studies and current events classes.