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National Strategy for PANDEMIC INFLUENZA

August 27, 2010

The National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza guides our preparedness and response to an influenza pandemic, with the intent of (1) stopping, slowing or otherwise limiting the spread of a pandemic to the United States; (2) limiting the domestic spread of a pandemic, and mitigating disease, suffering and death; and (3) sustaining infrastructure and mitigating impact [...]

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Influenza Treatment To Triumph Over The Pandemic Threat

August 23, 2010

Influenza is one of the more common illnesses affecting a person. There is no specific age group that is prone or not prone to influenza. It affects the young and the old in equal measure. Also, perfectly healthy people can be affected by this virus. Older people are definitely more vulnerable from it and it’s [...]

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The Homeopathic Treatment of Influenza – Special Bird Flu

August 12, 2010

The second edition of this popular book includes Part IIIThe Bird Flu. A 47 page account of the developing threat of an influenza pandemic that has been quietly mutating throughout Asia, and which scientists warn will soon sweep the globe. This edition contains a six page step-by-step model with graphs on how to locate the [...]

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WHO Declares End Of H1N1 Pandemic

August 11, 2010

WHO Declares End Of H1N1 Pandemic “World Health Organisation Director-General Margaret Chan announced Tuesday the end of the [H1N1] swine flu pandemic, more than a year after it was declared,” Agence France-Presse reports. “The world is no longer in phase 6 of influenza pandemic alert. We are now moving into the post-pandemic period,” Chan said [...]

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Influenza and Public Health: Learning from Past Pandemics

August 6, 2010

Major influenza pandemics pose a constant threat. As evidenced by recent H5N1 avian flu and novel H1N1, influenza outbreaks can come in close succession, yet differ in their transmission and impact. With accelerated levels of commercial and population mobility, new forms of flu virus can also spread across the globe with unprecedented speed. Responding quickly [...]

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Swine Flu Pandemic Hit Children the Hardest

August 1, 2010

Swine Flu Pandemic Hit Children the Hardest The H1N1 flu strain that sparked the first influenza pandemic in four decades has caused the majority of flu cases so far in the 2009-2010 season, the CDC says. Read more on WebMD

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The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? Workshop Summary

July 26, 2010

Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pandemic, which many experts believe to be inevitable. Moreover, recent problems with the availability and strain-specificity of vaccine for annual flu epidemics in some countries and the rise of pandemic strains of avian [...]

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Swine influenza Pandemic H1N1/09 virus

July 22, 2010

Swine influenzaPandemic H1N1/09 virusTime is short. “Clearly this will drill down to states and, frankly, local health departments,” she said. “We have got to push supplies out. We have got to push antivirals out.” No one knows if the H1N1 virus will stay mild, or if it will change slightly as it circulates, coming back [...]

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Global View of the Fight Against Influenza

July 22, 2010

Influenza has become an important infectious disease with regard to its enormous clinical and economic impact on population health. Due to the recent pandemic threat by the world-wide spread of H5N1 avian influenza, the World Health Organization has shown its profound concerns regarding the possibility of having the virus spread among humans. These concerns have [...]

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Influenza Pandemic: Preparedness and Response to a Health

July 21, 2010

Global pandemic preparedness and response efforts are co-ordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO). Domestic preparedness efforts are led by the White House Homeland Security Council, with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) playing a major role. Domestic response efforts would be carried out under the all-hazards blueprint for a co-ordinated federal, [...]

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The H1n1 Influenza Pandemic of 2009

July 15, 2010

This book provides a synopsis of key events, actions taken, and authorities invoked by WHO, the U.S. federal government, and state and local governments to determine and mitigate the phases of a flu pandemic. Additionally, this book addresses select legal issues in relation to the pandemic including emergency measures, civil rights, liability, and employment issues. [...]

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ICEID COVERAGE Experts air H1N1 lessons, other disease challenges

July 12, 2010

ICEID COVERAGE Experts air H1N1 lessons, other disease challenges Jul 12, 2010 – ATLANTA (CIDRAP News) – The vital role of preparedness, from diagnostic testing to stockpiling of antiviral medications, was one of the most important lessons from assessments of the world’s response to the H1N1 influenza pandemic, the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) top flu [...]

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Plague of the Spanish Lady: Influenza Pandemic, October

July 11, 2010

Plague of the Spanish Lady: Influenza Pandemic, October 1918-January 1919

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Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic: A Dark Epilogue

July 11, 2010

Between August 1918 and March 1919 a flu pandemic spread across the globe and in just under a year 40 million people had died from the virus worldwide. This is the first book to provide a total history and seriously analyze the British experiences during that time.The book provides the most up-to-date tally of the [...]

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The 2009 Influenza Pandemic: Selected Legal Issues

July 9, 2010

On June 11, in response to the global spread of a new strain of influenza, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the level of influenza pandemic alert to phase 6, which indicates thestart of an actual pandemic. This change reflected the spread of the new influenza A(H1N1) virus,not its severity. Although currently the pandemic is [...]

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The 1918 Influenza Pandemic (Epidemic!)

July 8, 2010
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