This report includes updated
information on the following
topics: Monitoring and Surveillance,
Medical Countermeasures,
Antiviral Drugs, State and Local
Preparedness, and Communications
and Outreach. Please follow this link for
html and PDF views of the entire
update report: http://www.pandemicflu.gov
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The findings, which are published in the Aug. 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, provide vital clues to help public officials planning for the next influenza pandemic and highlight the importance of community strategies. These strategies are particularly important because the intervention most likely to provide the best protection against pandemic influenza -- a vaccine -- is unlikely to be available at the outset of a pandemic. Community strategies that delay or reduce the impact of a pandemic (also called non-pharmaceutical interventions) may help reduce the spread of disease until a vaccine that is well-matched to the virus is available.
http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/2007/r070807.htm
For more information about community strategies for pandemic influenza, please visit:
http://www.pandemicflu.gov/plan
/community/community_mitigation.pdf.
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| Led by Gary Nabel, M.D., Ph.D., director of the NIAID’s Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center (VRC), the team is reporting in the August 10, 2007 issue of the journal Science that they have developed a strategy to generate vaccines and therapeutic antibodies that could target predicted H5N1 mutants before these viruses evolve naturally. This advance was made possible by creating mutations in the region of the H5N1 hemagglutinin (HA) protein that directs the virus to bird or human cells and eliciting antibodies to it.
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/aug2007/niaid-09.htm |
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Physicians can now gain immediate access to patients' medication histories during a disaster.
www.ICERx.org (In Case of Emergency Prescription Database)
This web portal is a secure, online resource with patients' comprehensive medication histories intended for licensed subscribers and pharmacists.
This site is backed by AMA and represents a public health initiative launched through a collaboration of public and private organizations in response to lessons learned in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Preparing for a pandemic influenza outbreak involves everybody. The threat of pandemic influenza is real, and America needs leadership from respected community members to prepare our towns and cities, reduce the impact of pandemic flu on individuals and families, and reduce or even prevent serious damage to the economy. ...
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