Rapid Response is a common term in the medical community to come to the aide of others in need as quickly as possible.

I was noticing the gross amount of wrong, misleading, or hyper BS regarding the Swine Flu Outbreak.

For the past several days, I have been working feverishly to creates sites the I would recommend as being official news, such as the CDC and WHO.

Recently states have gotten into the news as local and state health departments are releasing their own news and updates. Several school districts have closed for what may be the remainder of the school years.

I manage several Twitter accounts and that gave me a pretty good insight as to what was out there and what whas needed.

I released and have been revising FluAct.com which now includes:

• CDC
• WHO
• Google Pandemic Map
• Dr. Sanjay Gupta
• State Health Departments

Actually, the first site I released was several days ago.

mCDC.mobi started out being just mobile CDC news.

It rapidly evolved along with the flu outbreak. WHO was perhaps simply monitoring the situation. But as the virus began to spread to several continents, WHO became more involved.

mCDC.mobi added WHO for regional and international news. This led to the addition of a Multi Lingual module which could provide translation into 13 languages. Then Local Clinic search for those who were new to the area they were in or perhaps on the road. RSS feeds became part of the front page. Finally, Local and State Health Departments.

All of this is where knowing basic programming skills or knowing a structure like Joomla or WordPress comes in handy. Having a medical background and deep knowledge of the events also helps. Most of all, in a situation like this being flexible to add additional features as news and information evolves.

Mobile and Tech kicking ass!