Links and other sites of interest (2): Influenza A (H1N1)

Ministerio de Sanidad y Política Social (ESPAÑA): Important information about this novel flu virus.

Official statements: Comunicados del Ministerio de Sanidad y Política Social

Tips for the traveller: Consejos a los viajeros que se dirigen o regresan de zonas afectadas

FAQ or Preguntas y respuestas más frecuentes

Telephone of Information and Attention to the Citizens: 901 400 100

http://www.msc.es/

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) was established in 2005. It is an EU agency with aim to strengthen Europe's defences against infectious diseases. It is seated in Stockholm, Sweden.

http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/

Boletín Epidemiológico Semanal

Centro Nacional de Epidemiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid.

Fortnightly, print and online. In Spanish.

http://www.isciii.es/jsps/centros/epidemiologia/boletinesSemanal.jsp

Health-EU

The Public Health of the European Union

Health-EU is a multilingual portal intended to give as many people as possible access to information in their own language. The navigation and content of the portal (the homepage, introductions to themes, links) are available in all 20 EU official languages.

The Health and Consumers Directorate-General is pleased to present the Health-EU Portal (the official public health portal of the European Union) and the wide range of information and data on health-related issues and activities at both European and international level. The main objective of this thematic Portal is to provide European citizens with easy access to comprehensive information on Public Health initiatives and programmes at EU level. The portal is intended to help meet EU objectives in the Public Health field, it is an important instrument to positively influence behaviour and promote the steady improvement of public health in the 27 EU Member States.

http://ec.europa.eu/health-eu/about_en.htm