Pigs and Rubbish

A fascinating article in the New York Times on Cairo

For many years, one of the classic case studies of an informal economy was a group of people called the ZABALEEN...

Earlier this year, as a response to the swine flu threat, pigs in Egypt were culled...

Read the article to see what happened next...

Swine Flu Update

Update

Further to my earlier post on Swine Flu (scroll down a little way), here is the Guardian Data Blog's link to a map showing cases by geographical location in England and Wales.

The data can also be downloaded as a spreadsheet....

Swine Flu

The Geography of Disease is a topic which has been introduced into some geography departments as part of the new KS3 (and also before, to be fair...)

On the return from the holidays (and yes, I know that some people reading this may not have broken up quite yet) who knows how Swine Flu may have spread - the holiday may even be extended.

The GA was involved in a project in 2008 with Wellcome, and the resources have a particular relevance to this situation. The GEOGRAPHY OF DISEASE project has a range of resources

and suggestions for exploring the spread of disease and identifying the 'geography'.

There is also a special page on the GA WEBSITE which provides a range of Swine Flu resources.

Graeme Eyre

Graeme Eyre, one of our Primary Geography Champions, is currently in China, and has added a fascinating "Living Geography" post to his blog about his experiences, including images of himself and the Chinese guards and temperature-taking procedures, as well as a picture of some official documents...Would make a nice mystery starter...
See the information HERE, where there is also a link to Graeme's FLICKR images.

The Flu Survey website is now live, and would also be a useful resource for mapping over time.

BBC Map showing the spread of the Swine Flu is another useful resource.

How did the pig get on the roof ?

....the swine flew...

Great BRAIN POP animation

For those using the "Geography of Disease"