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Epidemiological Alerts Archives, 2003–2008

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 6, No. 3 (6 February 2009)

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 6, No. 4 (10 February 2009)

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 6, No. 2 (30 January 2009)

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 6, No. 1 (25 January 2009)

Sterilization Manual for Health Centers

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 5, No. 13 (4 December 2008)

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 5, No. 12 (13 November 2008)

Infection Control Strategies for Specific Procedures in Health-Care Facilities: Epidemic-prone and pandemic-prone acute respiratory diseases, A Quick Reference Guide

CD48/20 Violence and Injury Prevention

International Health Regulations (IHR)

Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 5, No. 11 (31 March 2008)

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 5, No. 8 (21 March 2008)

CSP27.R10: Regional Policy and Strategy for Ensuring Quality of Health Care, Including Patient Safety

Epidemiology of Chagas Disease in Non-Endemic Countries: The Role of International Migration

CSP27/11- International Health Security Roundtable

Number of Cholera Cases in the Americas (1990–2006)

Epidemic-prone & pandemic-prone acute respiratory diseases: Infection prevention & control in health-care facilities, Summary guidance

Infection Prevention and Control of Epidemic- and Pandemic-Prone Acute Respiratory Diseases in Health Care: WHO Interim Guidelines

PAHO Regional Program on Epidemic Alert and Response: Working to Deal with Outbreaks in the Americas

The PAHO Regional Program on Viral Diseases

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 4, No. 8 (16 April 2007)

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 4, No. 7 (15 March 2007)

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 4, No. 6 (9 March 2007)

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 4, No. 5 (7 March 2007)

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 4, No. 4 (12 February 2007)

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 4, No. 3 (9 February 2007)

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 4, No. 2 (8 February 2007)

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 4, No. 1 (29 January 2007)

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 3, No. 2 (31 October 2006)

Foodborne Diseases, Emerging (WHO Fact Sheet No. 124)

Drug-Resistant Salmonella (WHO Fact Sheet No. 139)

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 3, No. 1—24 October 2006

Antimicrobial Resistance (WHO Fact Sheet No. 194)

Campylobacter (WHO Fact Sheet No. 255)

Cholera (WHO Fact Sheet No. 107)

Use of antimicrobials outside human medicine and resultant antimicrobial resistance in humans (WHO Fact Sheet No. 268)

Dengue

Communicable Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO: Aims, Strategies and Lines of Action

Veterinary Public Health at PAHO

Investing in Global Health: 'Best Buys' and Priorities for Action in Developing Countries

Priorities in Health

Travelers' Health

International Travel and Health

West Nile Virus Activity in Latin America and the Caribbean

Vth Meeting of the Surveillance Network for Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Amazon Countries

CE137/4-Implications for the Implementation of the International Health Regulations (IHR-2005) in the Region of the Americas

TB Strategies to Meet the Millennium Development Goals: Regional Meeting of Heads of National TB Programs (NTPs) (Mexico City, 7–9 September 2004)

VIth Meeting of the Southern Cone Surveillance Network for Emerging Infectious Diseases (Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 4–5 March 2005)

Workshop: Capacity-Building for Tuberculosis Control, with Specific Focus on TB/HIV Control

9th International Course on Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (Havana,

Malaria

Interim Policy on Collaborative TB/HIV Activities

PAHO-CDC Generic Proposal for Influenza Surveillance

IInd International Workshop on TB Control in Prisons (Lima, Peru, 18–20 August 2004)

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 26—6 October 2004

CD45.R8: Disaster Preparedness and Response

Regional Interprogrammatic Meeting on TB/HIV (Mexico City, 9–10 September 2004)

Related Sites: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs)

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 25—18 August 2004

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 24—12 August 2004

Regional Meeting on Tuberculosis (Mexico City, 6–10 September 2004)

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 23—5 August 2004

TB/HIV: A Clinical Manual

Guidelines for HIV Surveillance among Tuberculosis Patients (2nd ed.)

Report of a Lessons Learnt Workshop on the Six ProTEST Pilot Projects in Malawi, South Africa and Zambia (Durban, South Africa, 3–6 February 2003)

Photo Gallery: Typhoid Epidemic in Ca Pierre, Haiti

Tuberculosis: A Manual for Medical Students

PAHO Regional Program on Dengue

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 21—24 June 2004

Frequently Asked Questions on the Proposed Revision of the International Health Regulations (IHRs)

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 20—15 June 2004

Regional Meeting of the Tuberculosis Laboratory Network (Mexico City, 6–8 September 2004)

Final Report of the International Workshop on Tuberculosis Control in Prisons (San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 11–13 August, 2003)

Campylobacter

Yellow Fever: Map Depicting Cases in Proportion to Deaths (South America, 1999–2004)

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 19—27 May 2004

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 18—7 May 2004

Interagency Commission to Stop TB: Vth Meeting for the Americas (Stop TB) (Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 3–5 May 2004)

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 17—29 April 2004

Emerging/Reemerging Diseases

Surveillance Networks for Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) in Latin America and the Caribbean

Number of Cases of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) (Region of the Americas, 1993–2004)

Number of Cases and Deaths from Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) (Region of the Americas, 1993–2003)

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 16—22 April 2004

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 15—15 April 2004

Rabies

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 14—8 April 2004

Campaign to Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance in Healthcare Settings

Epidemiological Status of TB (Region of the Americas, 2004)

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 12—25 March 2004

Words from Dr. Mirta Roses, Director of PAHO, on World TB Day 2004

”Every breath counts. Stop tuberculosis now!” World TB Day 2004

Status of TB Operations (Region of the Americas, 2004)

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 11—18 March 2004

Memorandum of Understanding between the American National Red Cross and the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization concerning Program Collaboration for Tuberculosis Control

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 10—11 March 2004

Influenza

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 9—4 March 2004

Third Joint Meeting of the Networks for Surveillance of Emerging Infectious Diseases (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 26-28 February 2004)

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 8—26 February 2004

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 7—19 February 2004

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 6—12 February 2004

Guidelines for Malaria Control Recommended by WHO Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Department, January 2004

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 4—29 January 2004

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 2—15 January 2004

Hantavirus

Smallpox

Anthrax

Salmonella

Shigella

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletins (by subregion, country, corresponding network and website)

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 1—8 January 2004

Tuberculosis

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 26 - 31 December 2003

Guidelines for Implementing Collaborative TB and HIV Programme Activities

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol.1, No. 24—24 December 2003

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 23—18 December 2003

International Health Regulations: Working Paper for Regional Consultations

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 22—11 December 2003

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 21—4 December 2003

Position of WHO's Roll Back Malaria Department on Malaria Treatment Policy

Cost of Hospital Infection in Nine Countries of Latin America

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 20—19 November 2003

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 19—12 November 2003

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 18—6 November 2003

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 17—30 October 2003

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 16—23 October 2003

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 15—16 October 2003

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 14—9 October 2003

Practical Guide for in vivo Antimalarial Drug-Efficacy Studies in the Americas (RAVREDA-AMI, revised version, October 2003)

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 13—2 October 2003

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 12—25 September 2003

Integrated Strategy for Dengue Prevention and Control

CD44.R6: Primary Health Care in the Americas: Lessons Learned over 25 Years and Future Challenges

Agreements: Workshop on Tuberculosis Control in Prisons (San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 11-13 August 2003)

Workshop on TB/HIV Co-Infection (San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 14-15 August 2003)

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 10—12 September 2003

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 9—4 September 2003

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 8—28 August 2003

IIIrd Meeting of the Coordinating Committee of the Central American Network for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases (RECACER) (Panama City, Panama, 21–22 August 2003)

Antimicrobial Resistance

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 7—21 August 2003

Reflections on TB/HIV and MDR

Guidelines for the Surveillance of HIV among Tuberculosis Patients

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 6—14 August 2003

International Workshop on Tuberculosis Control in Prisons (San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 11-13 August 2003)

Tuberculosis and Prisons

Tuberculosis and HIV in Prisons

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 5—8 August 2003

International Symposium on Leptospira and Leptospirosis in the Americas (Mexico City, 2-4 February 2004)

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 4—31 July 2003

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 3—24 July 2003

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 2—17 July 2003

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 1—10 July 2003

WHO, List of Links on Communicable Diseases (by topic)

West Nile Virus

Cholera (Region of the Americas, 1991-2002)

SARS: Global Alert, Global Response

West Nile Virus in Latin America and the Caribbean

Status of the Monkeypox (MPXV) Outbreak in the United States

SARS: Developing a Research Response

Warning!!!!Two new varieties of fake artesunate are being sold in mainland Asia ...

Cholera

SARS: Developing a Research Response (30 May 2003, NIH/NIAID, Bethesda, MD, USA)

WHA56.R29: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Resolution of the World Health Assembly

Annual Regional Report from Countries Participating in the Network for Monitoring and Surveillance of Resistance to Antibiotics (2002 data) (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10–13 May 2003)

Master Infection Control Presentation: Infection Control Measures to Prevent Hospital Transmission (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome/SARS)

IVth Meeting of the Southern Cone Surveillance Network for Emerging/Reemerging Infectious Diseases (Santiago, Chile, 14–16 April 2003)

IVth Meeting of the Surveillance Network for Emerging and Reemerging Diseases in the Amazon Region (Belém, Pará, Brazil, 15–18 March 2003)

Pan American Health Organization's Proposed Contribution to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) / Latin America and Caribbean Bureau's Amazon Malaria Initiative (AMI): Project Proposal and Workplans for Years 2 & 3 (March 2003)

Central American Network for the Prevention and Control of Emerging and Reemerging Diseases (RECACER)

Global Tuberculosis Control: Surveillance, Planning, Financing

Malaria Rapid Diagnosis—Making It Work: Informal Consultation on Field Trials and Quality Assurance on Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests

Tuberculosis: Number of Cases and AFB (+), Reduction Rate (Region of the Americas, by country and year, 2001–2002)

TB Control in Prisons: A Manual for Programme Managers

Model for a Clinical Handbook for the Treatment of Infectious Diseases

WHO Disease Outbreak News

West Nile Virus Fact Sheet

Guidelines for Surveillance, Prevention and Control of West Nile Virus (13 September 2002)

Regional Meeting of National Tuberculosis Control Program Heads (Havana, Cuba, 11-13 September 2002)

West Nile Virus: Related Sites

West Nile Virus in the United States: Update

Hurrying Toward Disaster?

Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis)

List of Participants: 4th Meeting of the Emerging Disease Surveillance Network of the Southern Cone (Asunción, Paraguay, 30 May—1 June 2001)

Annual Regional Meeting of Countries Participating in the Monitoring/Surveillance Network on Resistance to Antibiotics (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, 17-19 April 2002)

First Technical Coordination Meeting of the Amazonian Network for Surveillance of Antimalarial Drug Resistance (RAVREDA) and the Amazon Malaria Initiative (AMI) (Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 19-20 March 2002)

2nd Joint Meeting of the Surveillance Network for Emerging Diseases in the Amazon and Southern Cone Regions (Atlanta, 23-24 March 2002)

List of Participants, First Technical Meeting of First Technical Coordination Meeting of the Amazonian Network for Surveillance of Antimalarial Drug Resistance (RAVREDA) and the Amazon Malaria Initiative (AMI) (Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 19-20 March 2002)

Executive Report: Subregional Meeting of the Central American Network for the Prevention and Control of Emerging and Reemerging Diseases (RECACER) (Costa Rica, 21–22 February 2002)

Monitoring Antimalarial Drug Resistance, Report of a WHO Consultation

Antimicrobial Resistance Bibliography

WHO Global Strategy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance

Pan American Health Organization's Proposed Contribution to the United States Agency for International Development / Latin America and Caribbean Bureau Amazon Malaria Initiative (AMI): Project Proposal and Workplans for Year One (2002)

4th Meeting of the Emerging Disease Surveillance Network of the Southern Cone (Asunción, Paraguay, 30 May—1 June 2001)

Strengthening National and Subregional Capabilities for the Surveillance, Prevention and Control of Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases (San Salvador, 7-9 May 2001)

Third Meeting of the Surveillance Network for Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Amazon Countries--Monitoring Resistance to Antimalarial Drugs: Treatment Policies (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil; 9-11 March 2001)

List of Participants: Third Meeting of the Network for the Surveillance of Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Amazon Countries (Bahia, Brasil, 9-11 March 2001)

Annual Regional Meeting of Countries Participating in the Network for Monitoring/Surveillance of Resistance to Antibiotics (Asunción, Paraguay, 31 January–February 2001)

List of Participants (by country, and PAHO): Annual Regional Meeting of the Countries Participating in the Network for Monitoring/Surveillance of Resistance to Antibiotics (Asunción, Paraguay, 31 January–2 February 2001)

Roll Back Malaria in Meso America: Report of the Meeting Held in the Dominican Republic with the Participation of Central American Countries, Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic (San Pedro de Macorís, 20-24 November 2000)

Cooperative Agreement to the Pan American Health Organization to initiate the Post Hurricane Reconstruction of the Public Healthcare System in Central America

Malaria: Epidemiological Map by Risk Levels for Eight Countries of the Rainforest Region of South America

The Roll Back Malaria Initiative in the Rainforest Region of South America (Cartagena, Colombia, August 2000)

Report: Third Meeting of the Surveillance Networks for Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Amazon and Southern Cone Regions--Atlanta, Georgia,15-16 July 2000

WHO Report on Infectious Diseases: Overcoming Microbial Resistance

Drains & You: A Manual for Drainage Maintenance Workers

CD41.R14: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance

Second Meeting of a Surveillance Network for Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) in the Southern Cone Region (Brasilia, Brazil, 11-13 May 1999)

Second Meeting to Establish a Surveillance Network for Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) in the Amazon Region (Tarapoto, Peru, 14-16 April 1999)

Hantavirus in the Americas: Guidelines for Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention, and Control

Respiratory Infections in Children

Prevention and Control of Antimicrobial Resistance in the Americas: Strategic Plan for Surveillance of Resistance to Antibiotics

Healthy Homes, Healthy Communities: An Environmental Health Manual for Use by your Family and Community

WHA51.17: Emerging and Other Communicable Diseases: Antimicrobial Resistance

Meeting to Establish a Network of Laboratories for the Surveillance of Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) in the Southern Cone Region: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 17-19 April 1998

Final Report: Meeting to Establish a Network of Laboratories for the Surveillance of Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) in the Amazon Region (Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, 9-11 February 1998)

Perspectives in Health - Volume 1, Number 2, 1996

Meeting of the Task Force on Surveillance for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (Toronto, 13-14 November 1996)