How did you first find out about Flu Wiki? Thought it would be interesting to take an informal poll.
Me: From Woodson’s book, The Bird Flu Preparedness Guide (which I ordered online). He mentions the link in there.
at some recent point I must have read about flu wiki on wired.com or cnet. It was Dr. Webber’s ABC newscast that got my attention. Googling through the links on Bird Flu brought me here fairly soon
Oprah message boards
I googled it- on the advice of my family doc, who is really nice and wants me to survive!
When I first went looking for dedicated flu sites, I googled H5N1 and got Crawford Killian’s site. I got the link there.
I saw it in a big USA Today article on preparations for the bird flu back in December of last year (or late November…can’t remember exactly)and only saw it because I was greyhound-sitting for a family and they took the USA Today paper…I am very grateful to have come across it!
KC that is amazing and virtually unheard of around here! Lucky for you to have such a good doctor!!!!
I Googled “Bird Flu” one day at work last November when I was thoroughly bored. Life hasn’t been the same since!! :-)
I found it through Effect Measure.
I read it in a news article but I don’t remember which one. It must have been when the wiki first started because I checked the wiki and there wasn’t much there. Several months later I checked again and life has not been the same since.
Saw a reference to it on the DailyKos blog (told you I was a lefty!) I read the diary series on disaster preparedness, then looked up Flu Wiki for more info. I didn’t think the bird flu was a big deal, but thought I would check the Wiki to make sure. Um, my thinking has changed a bit since then . . . .
effect measure
I think CNN postes the web cite for alternative information.
Recombinomics link
It was scrolled across the bottom of the screen on either CNN or Fox news. I agree with you BroncoBoncoBillBull - life has not been the same!
I googled “Bird Flu Survival”. So gld I did!
The AP news article listed on the right-hand scroll of FluWikie Main page.(Birmingham News sometime in Feb)--Busy as a Beaver since then.
Google Search, haven’t needed to search any other sites since landing here.
Another one from the Oprah boards, following the Osterholm show. Thank you to the people who pointed us here!
this thread should be closed too
why?
Ignore momathomejill, it’s a troll who just posts “close this thread” and nothing else.
Googled, after the Oprah show with Osterholm.
hubby got web-site mention from salon.
I think it was Recombinomics or MSNBC. Wikipedia does link to it. This site is ultimately going to save 10s of 1,000s of lives if not more. Millions of thanks to everyone.
From Oprah message board
USA TODAY
msnbc search
Google’ed it last fall,knew of bird flu for a few years as I was a “backyard flock” type of gal.Glad I found fluwiki cause instead of just fretting about bf,I actually learned what to do,PREPARE>
close the thread because its like what color underwear do you wear, its not relevant
Google, in January.
relevance is subjective :-)
hmmm seems relevant to the newbies expected (they’re not alone) and to those of us who value this site.. it’s you momathomejill who are not relevant
I read about it in a magazine but I don’t know which one, something like Time or newsweek? I read it in a doctor’s office and I wrote the site name down.
momathomejill : I agree that it may not be relevent to me, but other people think it is,. This is the second thread that you wanted closed. If it is not revelant to you, go elsewhere.
Hunting for Tamiflu after watching Oprah
I saw it referenced in a Yahoo News Story about 45 days ago. I think this thread is definetly relevent because I for one would like to know how much exposure the Wiki is getting. It is a good guage on general public opinion, and I am curious if we are just a select minority or if there is a broader interest from the general public - not just in prepping, but in educating themselves as well.
Last October - was it October? - I read a blurb on a blog - was it AMERICAblog? - about an upcoming “pandemic flu awareness week” or something like that, with a link to Flu Wiki.
That last was from me. My husband (an RN RCP patroller) posted a comment the other night while I was away, the rascal.
An article on CNN where Melanie was mentioned, about a month ago.
Momathomejill, I had dark blue underwear yesterday, but reverted to white today.
my underwear is red
Google after seeing special on 1918 last Fall.
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I was lurking the off-topic forum section at an online gaming site last autumn during the time the news media was reporting avian flu more heavily than usual.
Someone began a thread titled something like “Bird Flu, Should I Worry?” Most who answered scoffed at the issue, but two who responded gave well-informed and detailed analyses — enough to prompt a couple of people to find and visit the WHO and Fluwiki sites and post links. I’d already seen WHO, but Fluwiki was new to me.
Since then, Fluwiki is the second website I visit each morning. The first is the off-topic forums at the gaming site — the people there are sharper and better informed than most; I’ll know the flu is on the verge of being a mainstream issue when it hits their radar again.
Saw a very brief interview on Fox News with one of the wikis main masters.
Daily Kos, back in October.
I googled dehydrated food recipes for a camping trip and ended up here…..
Oprah, her shocked stare at Dr Osterholm got me.
Can’t recall if I found it myself (been following H5N1 for a while) or if it was Quip/lash from flickr who recommeded it on his Avian Flu Watch there.
BoonCT, and others, glad to hear that show got through to some. (Wish Dr.Osterholm would come through my town!) (Ha -even the time on Fox helped -she’ll be glad to hear that.)
One of the creators of Flutrackers told me about it, before he created his site.
troll message removed.
momathomejill has apparently had too much vodka and not enough chocolate tonight.
or maybe not enough sex;-)
We are working on the troll problem.
the Daily Kos too <another Air America/Kos lefty..go Randi!>
You can thank Dem, georgia10 and a couple of the Kos front posters for the Kos links.
thanks guys!!
Future generations will be born with a survival instinct that includes this URL. It will be a recombination or mutation or drift or <g> of a two part chad with sister 2–6 hemoglobin acid receptors and highly virulent H-H prenatal infections. I read that here, honest.
Google.
dude,
I have to believe you because no body could have made that up.
Smithsonian article on Dr. Webster over lunch mid January - Found FW later that night on Google.
It found me… It was in Dec. I forgot about it during the winter brake. In Jan. I came back and have been here every day. Keep up the good work. My friends are starting to lis
After Hurricane Katrina, I started thinking about our safety. I watched TV and thought “this is only a hurricane/flood in a regional area and we can’t get it together”. Our country appeared weak and unorganized. If I saw the weakness then I’m sure that bad people with not very nice ideas saw it too. I started thinking that it might not be a bad idea to have a home in another country. I started researching other countries and their rules on ownership and such. I came across a few very interesting websites and one mentioned the bird flu. I googled it and after awhile I found the survive the flu.com website. Someone mentioned it there and I haven’t left since. It’s been seven months and alot of great information. I’m as prepared as I can be right now. Tomorrow’s another story.
Google, 2/06
Welcome, and keep trying to overcome local information/preparation bottlenecks!
TIME magazine, 2/23/1998, “The Flu Hunters”. Article on H5N1’s outbreak in Hong Kong 1997 with deaths and that entire bird population culled. One doctor mentioned that this virus scared him so much he told his family if it started going H2H2H to go to their cabin in the mountains and stay there until he told them to return. I’ve been studying and following this virus since then.
I first heard of it over at DailyKos.
I saw a woman being interviewed on Fox News and wrote down the name of the site. And here I am!
Posts by DemFromCT at DailyKos.
Oprah message board
I’ve been a longtime reader of Melanie’s blog which I found through Steve Gilliard’s blogroll.
CNN article sometime last February.
I think i found it on the government site.
To bad we couldn’t have a button like in aol chat rooms where you can block someone who you don’t want to read their messages. That might fix the trol problem. They call it the iggy button. (ignore button)
Virginiamom at 13:25,
That woman was me.
Oprah message board. There was a woman there called Lisa in CA, she explained everything extremely well.
A friend sent me the link around Christmas. I had been belittling his prepping for months. Fluwikie got me religion. Now I’m Nearly Ready and still addin’ on…yesterday I found canned yams on special. Hmmm…delicious, easy to prepare, full of vitamin A. Now the kids are demanding marshmallows, tho…
goggled bird flu in Feb.
A friend sent me the link around Christmas. I had been belittling his prepping for months. Fluwikie got me religion. Now I’m Nearly Ready and still addin’ on…yesterday I found canned yams on special. Hmmm…delicious, easy to prepare, full of vitamin A. Now the kids are demanding marshmallows, tho…
I am a member at avianflutalk.com and there is discussion here and there on various threads about this site. I like both sites and get a lot of info from both.
I googled “bird flu” back in September of 05.
I started checking the CDC website daily after 9/11 to keep up with the research on smallpox vaccine. When SARS broke and I read the clinical info there, I became quite alarmed and bought n95 masks - 4 of them - how’s that for laughs! In the course of reading a breaking news item I came across a warning that bird flu could be spread by cockfighting (I dispair of ever banning it in La.) and that referred me to an article by Killian in “The Tyee” which led me to crofsblog which led me here.
I read a blurb on the internet and surfed on in.Spent several days reading the information and decided I couldn’t ignore the potential threat any longer.Thank are in order to all who complied this site.I’ve learned so much and appreciate that balanced views expressed here.
I saw an announcement on a political blog, probably Daily Kos, when the wiki first started. I bookmarked it at the time but didn’t start seriously exploring the site until months later.
After reading articles last year on August 1 and September 26 authored by Jon Barron, the Baseline of Health newsletter regarding bird flu, (particularly the 9–26 article) - I started to pay much closer attention. I don’t remember exactly when I found my way to the FW by googling - January 2006 or so, but am glad I did.
September 26, 2005 is the first time I read of cytokine storm. A memorable term for sure.
Daily Kos, google
According to our referral links, most people find their way here through google and other searches.
Effect Measure, pre -Wiki
LMonty,
If I remember correctly, you’ve been around here since about Day 1.
I Wak- Web(ed) it. Don’t ask why. gina
I believe is was via a google search last June, but that’s just a guess.
Found it doing internet searches on bird flu.
CNN or MSNBC article around the beginning of the year had the link. Followed it.
Found it while researching BF to prepare a company Pandemic Plan.
Looking for anything about bird flu and found flu wiki.
From Peter Sandman articles on Pandemic Flu
I heard about this website on another discussion forum called http://www.avianflutalk.com/
AP wire article
CNN
announcement at daily kos
persistent dem from updates
the vortex
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DemFromCT’s diaries at Daily Kos.
Google — needed some validation that I wasn’t crazy and prepping for nothing — I found that here and have convinced my husband that we need to be prepared too.
I visit another board regularly and no one there really seems to be taking the threat seriously. The few that have are constantly ridiculed, so I used Google to see if there was somewhere I could go and only deal with people who view this as a serious threat.
I’m in the camp where I’m not totally convinced that “THIS” strain will be the one to cause a global pandemic, but I think it’s silly to believe that history won’t eventually repeat itself.
google—when I was home sick with the flu . . .
I visit another board regularly and no one there really seems to be taking the threat seriously. The few that have are constantly ridiculed, so I used Google to see if there was somewhere I could go and only deal with people who view this as a serious threat.
I’m in the camp where I’m not totally convinced that “THIS” strain will be the one to cause a global pandemic, but I think it’s silly to believe that history won’t eventually repeat itself.
DailyKos, of course. :-D
wall street journal article
google search on avian flu… fluwikie came up
link from www.beprepared.com
From a blog called Lonsberry, back in the beginning.
Googled “bird flu preparation”
Dogpile search result (I like dogpile better than Google)
I believe it was from CNN or another TV newshow
Checked Yahoo news. There was a link to FluWikie. Best click I have ever done.
I think google several months ago.
Someone linked to Flu Wiki on CurEvents.com, and so I wandered over here, looked around and threw the site into my bookmarks.
Googled Preperations for Hurricanes………so glad I found this!!
I did a search on yahoo but it was all of you that kept me here. I’ve been on other sites but you can’t compare anything to fluwiki. In fact 99% of my bird flu time is spent here because of all the big hearts and all the brain power.
In The Economist
Avian influenza was on my radar last summer but I wasn’t as worried then. Along came NOLA and I suddenly realized if the government couldn’t get food, water, and meds in a timely manner to those poor people, we didn’t have a prayer or hope for help from the feds when the whole country was involved in an emergency. It was going to be “root little piggy or die”…and you’d better do your “rooting” in advance. I googled “Avian influence” and Fluwiki was the site mentioned most.
I was appalled when I found out about “just in time” inventory as that made the situation much worse than I had feared. Fluwiki’s information certainly got me off my duff and prepping. I also started sending emails to my grown daughters. When I got one of my son-in-laws on the email list things went into high gear down there in Texas. Now both daughters and their husbands are prepping. That’s three families, Melanie, that you’ve hopefully rescued with your $10,000. Multiply this by all the people that post and lurk here and I’d say you are having a whole lot of effect for the money spent. I’m sure Dem, Pogge, Anon22 and the Revere’s are heavily out of pocket, too. Do let us know when we can contribute to the cause.It’s not fair that you folks have all the work AND all the expense. Anyway thank you, thank you, thank you for taking the risk and the time.
Actually, I googled “Avian Influenza”. I don’t know what “Avian Influence” would have brought up. Suspicious activities by birds?
Google, searching for emergency preparedness lists (not BF-specific)
the Oprah boards
I heard about fluwiki when I first was researching the bird flu and how to prepare for it. I found Avianflutalk from Google, and one of the first posts I read there was wondering where the wiki went, and how much good info was there. They were worried by the “disappearance” of fluwiki. So of course I had to come here and see the site for myself.. I don’t post often, but come here all the time. Thanks, all, for the great info and professional running of the forum.
I had read a bit about Avian Influenza and was intrested in the avian species, mostly, because to me, they represent the closest thing we have to pre-historic mammals. Strip a bird (pick any bird) of its feathers and you have a tiny dinosaur.
Then, I saw a satirical cartoon of George W. Bush looking into a “spider hole” with a chickhen down below labeled as {Bird Flu} and the caption…
After that I continued to look for info and added Orange’s blog (the coming influenza pandemic?)onto my yahoo page and connected the news items and available information into Personal Brain Technologies.
BTW, my Brain name is 42. Homage to Douglas Adams.
Oh, That was about October 2005 and it was not until after the first of the new year I even began discussing or rather even mentioning it to anyone else.
Daily Kos. Thanks, DemFromCT!
I read this article back in …maybe in January 2006, I’m not sure only that since then I have been following the site.
At the time I think the article appeared on the CNN webnews.
My husband was a doctor, so I am interesting in medical things, as well as a million other subjects that intrigue me, and help me pass the minutes, hours and years without a trace of boredom. So flu was on my mind. Idly I googled it up and after Who, I found Flu wiki. that was either the end of September or October. At first I found the prepping to seem quaint, but then reasonable, yet I have never really gotten to be a prepper. Still am interested. When my interest is satisfied I’ll be gone. Either it will happen before my interest declines, or it won’t. Either way, I will be much better prepared than I would have been if I hadn’t come in from the cold.
Wikipedia
I googled the subject ‘cuz I was tired of hearing Bush call for extended emergency military powers for something I didn’t understand as a threat.
(I still don’t agree he should have those powers, but that speech will be the only thing I thank him for when he invites me over to the White House.)
>;-)
Quartzman-Had to ask…Had that baby girl yet? :)
From the “coming influenza pandemic” news blog, still using it for a quick overview of BF news available.
Googled for “pandemic flu.”
Melenie on Fox
Snowhound1 – at 16:31
:) Thanks for asking!
Oct 2nd is the due date.
So a few more months till I change professions. (From sloppy husband to dutiful diaper changer) ;)
Got here through Google, trying to get some answers to questions about setting up some kind of solar powered backup system as we add to our hurricane/disaster supplies for this hurricane season. I’ve been too busy trying to fix my house, help others here (NOLA) and getting ready for this hurricane season to worry much about bird flu, but I’m glad I found this place so I can become more informed. After dealing with Katrina (ok, still dealing with Katrina), I’m well aware of the need to be prepared for disasters in general (and have a much better idea of what is needed to be prepared), whether it be a hurricane, bird flu or some other disaster! At least I can say I’m fairly well prepared in the case of a pandemic simply by virtue of being prepared for another Katrina. Anyway, that’s how I’ve ended up here - and I’m very thankful for the folks that are helping me figure out my solar power questions.
Closing for length…Part 2 can be found here