There have been 100’s of news reports lately about the Swine Flu Outbreak that is now a worldwide situation and is responsible for 91 cases (at this writing) and one death in the United States.  For those who are not satisfied getting your news via traditional news sources, here are some options:

• The CDC is using Twitter to deliver Swine Flu information.  You can follow the  CDC’s @emergency account on Twitter
  

  CDC on Twitter

• Swine Flu Tweets allows you to track tweets (posts on Twitter) from Twitter about the outbreak on a Google map.
• Another way via Twitter to follow trends and conversations is to keep an eye on tweets tagged with the keyword #swineflu.
• Facebook, the social networking utility has also been instrumental in delivering Swine Flu information.  (How accurate the information is, can be debated!) They have a tool called Lexicon which analyzes how fast conversations about Swine Flu traveled on their site.  Between April 20 and April 27, their maps of data show the most conversations show up in Texas and California.

As you hear of any additional methods of communicating this outbreak, let us know about them!

Update - Here’s a one more place to look:

• Swine Flu Volunteer Network via Ning (thanks for Siobhan Champ-Blackwell)

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