Influenza links

The links on this page will take you to recommended sites that have useful information on all aspects of influenza.

Europe

European centre for disease prevention
and control (ECDC):
is an EU agency with aim to strengthen Europe's defences against infectious diseases.
http://ecdc.europa.eu

DG Sanco influenza: provides information about seasonal influenza and strains.
http://ec.europa.eu

Finland

 Link to Kansanterveyslaitos

Kansanterveyslaitos (KTL): is responsible, as an expert body under the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, to promote people living a healthy life.
www.ktl.fi

Read reviewers comments on this website (PDF).

France

Link to GROG

GROG: is a network of doctors that highlight the dangers of influenza on public health.
www.grog.org

Read reviewers comments on this website (PDF).

Link to SPLF

SPLF: is the French-language Society of Pneumology (Société de pneumologie de langue française - SPLF) a professional organisation.
www.splf.org

Germany

 Link to Robert Koch Institut

Robert Koch Institut (RKI): is the central federal institution responsible for disease control and prevention.
www.rki.de

Read reviewers comments on this website (PDF).

Norway

 Link to Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH): is a state organisation with responsibility for surveillance of public health, infectious diseases and environmental conditions.
www.fhi.no

Portugal

Link to Direcção-Geral da Saúde

Direcção-Geral da Saúde: is a Portuguese site that contains an influenza “microsite”.
www.dgs.pt

Read reviewers comments on this website (PDF).

Link to Sociedade Portuguesa de Pneumologia

Sociedade Portuguesa de Pneumologia: is the Portuguese Pneumology Society website.
www.sppneumologia.pt

Read reviewers comments on this website (PDF).

Switzerland

Link to FOPH

Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH): examines the incidence of infectious diseases.
www.bag.admin.ch

Read reviewers comments on this website (PDF).

UK

Link to NHS Direct

NHS Direct: is at the forefront of 24-hour health care, delivering telephone and e-health information services day and night direct to the public.
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk

Read reviewers comments on this website (PDF).

International

Link to WHO

World Health Organisation (WHO): is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system.
www.who.int

23 May 2012 will see the second ESWI European Influenza Summit, which aims to help improve public health protection against influenza.