World Health Organization
World Health Organization: Disease Outbreak News (Do Ns)
This resource provides up-to-date news on the most recent outbreaks of diseases around the globe. Provides links to other sites on epidemics and disease.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Vaccine Information on Influenza
Site is about the vaccine for influenza, how it works, why it must be taken every year, when to get it, and who should get the vaccine. Also contains links to more information about influenza.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Immune Platoon
This site gives a comic book style description of the immune system and the "super powers" it uses to fight infections and other diseases. The site ends with the "case files" of several diseases in their disease database.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: A Brief History of Vaccination
Presents a detailed history of vaccine science.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Influenza: The Disease
Find a list of "flu-like symptoms," learn who is at risk for developing the flu, and read about how the flu is spread. This website also provides a chart showing "peak months for flu activity" and advice for treating the flu and flu...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: The Influenza (Flu) Viruses
Read about the different types of flu viruses, and learn how the flu can spread and change. Learn how many people are hospitalized due to the influenza virus every year and more.
Stanford University
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Read a general overview of the influenza pandemic of 1918 which hit across the world just as World War I was ending. Find out how the virus spread, how fast it killed its victims, and how public health groups tried to deal with the flu.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Bird Flu
Although titled bird flu, this informative article delves into the flu virus in general discussing the various types of flu and their characteristics. Bird flu is discussed and comments related to a potential vaccine are commented upon.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Flu Basics
This resource provides a basic primer on the the three types of influenza and their properties. In addition, suggestions are given on health habits to practice to avoid getting the flu.
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: Flu in the Air
Article reports on the recent findings that tiny particles known as aerosols are responsible for most flu infections. Includes a vocabulary list of words from the article.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Surprising Reason You Feel Awful When You're Sick
It starts with a tickle in your throat that becomes a cough. Your muscles begin to ache, you grow irritable, and you lose your appetite. It's official: you've got the flu. It's logical to assume that this miserable medley of symptoms is...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Influenza 1918: Rupert Blue
Describes the role that Rupert Blue, Surgeon General of the United States in 1918, played in combating and containing the influenza epidemic of 1918.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Medicine and Health Care
Simulate the spread of germs and explore current issues in the field of medicine such as the placebo effect, contraception and myths and facts about AIDS. Describe how pandemics have changed history, and discover how x-rays and...
United Nations
United Nations Cyberschoolbus: Fighting Disease
The United Nations has distributed this list to make school age children aware of the communicable diseases that have most recently had an effect on society. Good descriptions are provided for each of the 11 diseases.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Fractures
This site from the MayoClinic.com provides great information on fractures, or broken bones. The information is very brief with links to shock, CPR and severe bleeding. Also lets you know what to do if there is an injury or a trauma.
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: Flu Vaccine Shortage
A resource to help understand how the flu is different from other illnesses and how the flu vaccine can be considered important.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Influenza
This site covers in depth the clinical features of influenza, different types, and the history of influenza.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Anitviral Drugs for Influenza
Site about ways to cure influenza, aside from vaccines like antiviral drugs.
Other
Medinfo: Common Conditions: Influenza
This site describes the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatments, new developments, preventions, and high risk groups that would be susceptible to contracting influenza.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Stopping the Spread of Germs at Home, Work & School
This page lists "good health habits" to help prevent the spread of the flu and links to pages on handwashing and resources for stopping germs and flu virus in school and work environments.
Read Works
Read Works: Flu Frenzy
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses influenza and the importance of preventing an epidemic of a flu outbreak. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
Read Works
Read Works: The Flu and You
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how to avoid getting the flu. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Curated OER
Kids Health: The Flu: Stop the Spread
How can people stop the flu from spreading? Find out with these tips from Kids Health!
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Frequently Asked Flu Questions 2016 2017 Influenza Season
While flu spreads every year, the timing, severity, and length of the season varies from one year to another. Here are answers to some frequently asked questions.