Maggie Koerth-Baker is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. A freelance science and health journalist, Maggie lives in Minneapolis, brain dumps on Twitter, and writes quite often for mental_floss magazine.
If you’re interested in the dorky intricacies of pandemic flu, you might also like to know that the National Academies Press is offering Microbial Threats to Health: The Threat of Pandemic Influenza as a free download right now. This is a 2005 book, so it’s not going to cover anything about this current variant of swine flu, but it should still be an interesting overview of the background science.
Also, for the record, I am not an author on this book. I’m just planning on reading it tonight.