I was clued into this site, Flu Wiki from a post on Web4Lib.

(from Flu Wiki's site)

"The purpose of the Flu Wiki is to help local communities prepare for and perhaps cope with a possible influenza pandemic. This is a task previously ceded to local, state and national governmental public health agencies."
Our goal is to be:

• a reliable source of information, as neutral as possible, about important facts useful for a public health approach to pandemic influenza,
• a venue for anticipating the vast range of problems that may arise if a pandemic does occur
• a venue for thinking about implementable solutions to foreseeable problems

As David Mattison (who wrote a little review of Flu Wiki) said, there is scant information about the organizers of Flu Wiki. One one organizer gives her full name, Melanie Mattson, the rest give pseudonyms. I, like David, "would feel better if this site were affiliated or endorsed by a public health agency or two."

DemFromCT (an organizer of Flu Wiki) responded to David's criticism by saying, "OTOH, if there were such a site run by, let's say, CDC, we wouldn't need a Flu Wiki. it is precisely because CDC does not that we do. We'll be happy to take Flu Wiki off-line when a comparable official or authoritative source appears. In the meantime, Flu Wiki's links page will take you to offical resources, experts, etc. Flu Wiki is non-commercial and will not endorse products, drugs, purveyors of same, etc. And if you'll check the history of Wikipedia, you'll find an amazingly good track record of accuracy."

Hmm yeah, uh well there are quite a few thorough and authoritive sites on the Flu already, as David mentions, the CDC and the World Health Organization have excellent sites. We also know who is responsible for these sites and their medical qualifications. With all do respect we do not know who DemFromCT is and his/her qualifications. Please name a good authoritive medical information site in which the organizers only use pseudonyms and do not list any credentials?!

What sets this site apart from the same type of people who predicted doom and gloom on January 2000? I have serious reservations of a Wiki being a source of medical information. It would be interesting to find a medical wiki site which was organized by reputable health care professionals and see how that works.

You can follow more of David Mattison's criticism of Flu Wiki at The Ten Thousand Year Blog.