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Sixth Pandemic Planning Update Report ReleasedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This report includes brief video clips where you can hear personal stories about what it means to work on Pandemic Planning. These videos can be accessed from our Multimedia page (http://pandemicflu.gov/news/multimedia/index.html) or directly at http://pandemicflu.gov/news/multimedia/ann_knebel.html
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - January 8, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Archive of December 17, 2008 Webcast on antiviral drug use and employer stockpiling now availableEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The archive of the December 17, 2008 Webcast on antiviral drug use and employer stockpiling now available. You can also access archives of the entire PlanFirst Webcast series at: http://pandemicflu.gov/news/panflu_webinar.html
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - January 8, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

HHS Encourages Technology Transfer to Combat Bird FluEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - December 22, 2008 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Secretary Leavitt's Webcast Now AvailableEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The archive of Secretary Leavitt’s Pandemic Planning and Preparedness Webcast on October 29th, 2008 is now available at http://www.pandemicflu.gov/news/panflu_webinar7.html.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - November 13, 2008 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

HHS Secretary Leavitt Visits Southeast Asia to Advance Product Safety and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness EffortsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt is visiting Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam to advance the administration’s efforts to improve the safety of imports, and to review cooperative efforts to reduce the spread of disease, including HIV/AIDS and highly pathanogenic avian influenza.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - April 15, 2008 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Worksheet Available for State Pandemic Operations PlansEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - April 11, 2008 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Human-to-Human Transmission Likely in Pakistan OutbreakEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Two additional H5N1 cases were confirmed by serological testing, thus providing final H5N1 infection test results on a previously reported family cluster in Peshawar.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - April 4, 2008 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

HHS Releases Pandemic Planning Update V ReportEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - March 20, 2008 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

U.N. Group Warns Indonesia Situation CriticalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - March 18, 2008 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Webcast on State Pandemic Planning AssessmentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - March 13, 2008 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

New Guidelines for State Pandemic PlanningEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Effective State, local and community functioning during and following an influenza pandemic requires focused planning and practicing in advance of the pandemic to ensure that States can maintain their critical functions.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - February 14, 2008 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Diagnostic kits for avian influenza and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) obtain the green light of the OIE Commission for Biological StandardsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The BioChek Avian Influenza Antibody and Prionics® Check Western diagnostic kits got a positive recommendation by the Commission for Biological Standards of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - February 14, 2008 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

CDC Message for Travelers to Asia to Celebrate Lunar New YearEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There are several health issues that travelers to Asia should know about. Mosquito-borne illnesses, such as Malaria, Dengue Fever, and Japanese Encephalitis, are common throughout Asia. In addition, eating contaminated food and drinking contaminated water can cause illnesses such as Travelers’ Diarrhea. Learn more about these diseases and how you can prevent them by visiting the Insect and Arthropod Protection page and the Safe Food and Water page of the Travelers’ Health website.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - January 15, 2008 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

U.S. Ambassador Addresses New Delhi ConferenceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
First, I would like to join with my colleagues in thanking the Government of India for its efforts in organizing and hosting this conference of ministers and other senior officials from around the world. I, like they, am mindful of the enormous amount of time and labor that goes into preparing these large gatherings, and we are grateful for the results.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - December 5, 2007 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Three-Day Web Dialogue on Vaccine AllocationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Who gets vaccinated first in a flu pandemic? Doctors? Paramedics? Kids? The elderly? It’s the central question posed in a series of public forums seeking input on a draft plan that spells out how vaccines will be allocated in the early days of a flu pandemic.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - December 4, 2007 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Four-Day Meeting at WHO Headquarters on PreparednessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A four-day meeting will take place at the WHO headquarters in Geneva from 20 to 23 November 2007. The meeting aims to report on progress achieved in strengthening procedures for the sharing of influenza viruses and to discuss the benefits of virus sharing, which include increased access to vaccines.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - November 15, 2007 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Law Enforcement Pandemic Influenza Planning ChecklistEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the event of pandemic influenza, law enforcement agencies (e.g., State, local, and tribal Police Departments, Sheriff’s Offices, Federal law enforcement officers, special jurisdiction police personnel) will play a critical role in maintaining the rule of law as well as protecting the health and safety of citizens in their respective jurisdictions. Planning for pandemic influenza is critical.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - September 21, 2007 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Correctional Facilities Pandemic Influenza Planning ChecklistEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Planning for pandemic influenza is critical for ensuring a sustainable health care delivery system within correctional facility settings. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has developed the following checklist to help prison and jail systems to self-assess and improve their preparedness for responding to pandemic influenza. Given the differences among systems, individual facilities should adapt this checklist to meet their unique needs. This checklist should be used as one tool in developing an overall pandemic influenza plan for correctional systems as well as individual facilities. Responsible officials s...
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - September 21, 2007 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Hospital Pandemic Influenza Planning ChecklistEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Checklist for hospitals to help prepare for a pandemic.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - June 4, 2007 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

HHS launched the Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog, a 5-week-long blog summit about pandemic preparedness.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This online event is part of a new campaign to help Americans prepare for a potential influenza pandemic and engage influential U.S. leaders in the challenge to convince and help others to prepare. Join national leaders in the conversation at http://blog.pandemicflu.gov.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - May 22, 2007 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Guidance for Healthcare Workers and Healthcare EmployersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidance provides a wide range of information and tools helpful to pandemic planners, including: Internet resources, communication tools, sample infection control programs, and self-triage and home care resources. It also offers how-to advice on diagnosis and treatment of staff during a pandemic, developing planning and supply checklists, and risk communication.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - May 21, 2007 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

WHO Releases Questions and Answers on Pandemic Influenza VaccineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - May 10, 2007 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Interim Public Health Guidance for the Use of Facemasks and Respirators in Non-Occupational Community Settings during an Influenza PandemicEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This document describes interim guidance for the use of facemasks1 and respirators2 in certain public settings during an influenza pandemic. Very little information is available about the effectiveness of facemasks and respirators in controlling the spread of pandemic influenza in community settings. In the absence of scientific data, this document offers interim recommendations that are based on public health judgment and on the historical use of facemasks and respirators in other settings.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - May 3, 2007 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

H5N1 Avian Influenza: Timeline of Major Events (World Health Organization) (PDF)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
View the above WHO timeline to see the progression and major activity of H5N1 in both animals and humans since 1996.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - March 27, 2007 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Guidance on Preparing Workplaces for an Influenza Pandemic (Occupational Safety & Health Administration)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
To help employers determine appropriate workplace practices and precautions, the guidance divides workplaces and work operations into four risk zones, according to the likelihood of employees' occupational exposure to pandemic influenza. Recommendations for employee protection are presented for each of the four levels of anticipated risk and include engineering controls, work practices and use of personal protective equipment such as respirators and surgical masks and their relative value in protecting employees.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - February 9, 2007 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This document provides interim planning guidance for State, territorial, tribal and local communities that focuses on several measures other than vaccination and drug treatment that might be useful during an influenza pandemic to reduce its harm. Communities, individuals and families, employers, schools, and other organizations will be asked to plan for the use of these interventions to help limit the spread of a pandemic, prevent disease and death, lessen the impact on the economy, and keep society functioning.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - February 1, 2007 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

National Aviation Resource Manual for Quarantinable Diseases (U.S. Department of Transportation)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Manual for airlines, airports, federal response agencies and other first responders, local and state health departments. Outlines the response to and recovery from a quarantinable disease incident, including avian influenza, at a U.S. international airport.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - January 26, 2007 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Report Issued Summarizing Federal Department/Agency Pandemic Planning Actions to DateEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan contains over three hundred actions for Federal Departments and Agencies, almost all with timelines and measures of progress. The December 2006 Summary of Progress contains a list of actions due to be completed within 6 months of the release of the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan, followed by a summary of progress (in italics) prepared by the relevant Department(s) and Agency(ies) for this report. The assessment is indicated directly after the action number. Note: The Summary refers to chapters four through nine because they...
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - December 18, 2006 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Pandemic Influenza--Past, Present, Future: Communicating Today Based on the Lessons from the 1918-1919 Influenza PandemicEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
These workshop proceedings provide a historical retrospective review of the impact of the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic. A panel of experts discuss how the 1918–1919 pandemic affected daily life in the United States, and what lessons can be learned and applied to planning today.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - December 7, 2006 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

Tabletop Exercises for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in Local Public Health Agencies (Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness (OPHEP))Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Provides customizable tabletop exercises to test the relationships between local public health agencies and their local health care delivery and governmental partners in response to a pandemic flu emergency. Prepared under contract to OPHEP by the Rand Corporation.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - December 5, 2006 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

WHO issues Guidelines for Investigation of Human Cases of Avian Influenza A(H5N1)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Guidelines provide a framework and approach for public health authorities and investigators at all levels, to plan for and conduct investigations of human cases of A(H5N1) (or other avian influenza viruses of pandemic potential). The document focuses on the key steps that should be undertaken in an investigation.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - November 27, 2006 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations

WHO issues Field Guide to Collecting, Preserving and Shipping Specimens for the Diagnosis of H5N1Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This protocol is designed to simplify the previously published guidelines on specimen collection,packing, and shipment to allow for ease of use at field level and to provide the data needed to confirm the diagnosis of A(H5N1) infection as specified/described in the case definitions recently produced by WHO.
Source: PandemicFlu.gov RSS Feed for Website Updates - November 6, 2006 Category: American Health Source Type: organizations