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National Influenza Centers in PAHO Member States
This page provides information on the national influenza centers in the PAHO Member Countries, arranged by country and city, with links to the institutional websites, contact persons (with e-mail links when possible), and mailing addresses with phone and/or fax numbers.
vir-flu-national-centers.htm
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Situation Updates— Avian Influenza
This link provides access to all outbreak notices on avian influenza from the archives of the WHO Disease Outbreak News, starting with the newest item.
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WHO Guidance on Public Health Measures in Countries Experiencing Their First Outbreaks of H5N1 Avian Influenza
Outbreaks of avian influenza in poultry, when caused by highly pathogenic viruses of the H5 or H7 subtypes, are of great concern for the agricultural sector and can have considerable economic consequences. Such outbreaks are also of concern for human health. This guidance offered by WHO is general and intended for adaptation to specific situations, in line with national health and veterinary polices.
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Brasilia Declaration
The ministers and the representatives of ministers of agriculture and health, the presidents and the representatives of producer associations, industry, and other entities representing the poultry production chain, and the representatives of international organizations in attendance at the Hemispheric Conference on Avian Influenza, expressed their commitment in this multilateral agreement at the Hemispheric Conference on the Surveillance and Prevention of Avian Influenza in Brasilia, Brazil, on 2 December 2005. Full conference proceedings
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Hemispheric Conference on the Surveillance and Prevention of Avian Influenza (Brasília, Brazil, 30 November– 2 December 2005)
The objectives of this conference, co-sponsored by PANAFTOSA and the Ministry of Agriculture of Brazil, are as follows: Review, analysis, and dissemination of the global and Hemispheric knowledge of Avian Influenza (AI) and the risk of pandemic for humans, in order to forge a regional alliance and to discuss the bases of a public multisectoral and private plan, for surveillance and prevention of Influenza Avian in the Americas. This page is Portuguese but offers a link by which to register and the complete conference program in English.
PANAFTOSA
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Summary of Influenza Activity, September 2004 - August 2005 (Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER): Vol. 80, No. 41, pp. 353–360)
This article summarizes influenza activity worldwide over the period in question and also contains a data table on the extent and type of influenza activity worldwide confirmed by virus isolation, September 2004–August 2005.
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Avian Influenza—New Areas with Infection in Birds—Update 34
Tests conducted by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) have today confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in samples taken from domestic birds in Turkey. In Romania, investigations of recent poultry deaths have, to date, identified the H5 subtype of avian influenza virus. Further testing is under way to determine the strain and whether the virus is highly pathogenic. Authorities in the two countries have undertaken control measures as recommended by OIE and FAO. WHO is sending diagnostic reagents and other supplies to support testing in national laboratories. Viruses from both outbreaks have been sent for further analysis to the Central Veterinary Laboratory Agency-Weybridge (UK), which is an OIE/FAO reference laboratory. Viruses are also being sent to WHO reference laboratories for comparison with human H5N1 isolates from Asia.
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PAHO Strategic and Operational Plan for Responding to Pandemic Influenza (draft, September 23, 2005)
WHO has planned a strategic plan describing activities for influenza preparedness planning to prepare the world for the next influenza pandemic and mitigate its impact once international spread has begun. The PAHO Strategic Plan operates within this framework to direct technical-cooperation activities to be carried out to prepare the countries of the Region for an influenza pandemic.
vir-flu-PAHO-Plan-9-05.pdf
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Avian Influenza Resource Sites
This resource page gives links to online information on Avian Influenza (bird flu) via PAHO and international and national partner sites, not only from the Americas but in other regions where the disease has occurred.
vir-flu-avian.htm
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Pandemic Influenza Resource Sites
This page provides links to resources dealing with the topic of pandemic influenza, organized into coherent categories (surveillance, emergency preparedness and response, prevention and control, toolkits, press releases, major partner sites).
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Seasonal Influenza Resource Sites
This comprehensive list of information resources on influenza is arranged by host site. It includes keywords with each entry to enable a simple find search, using the following categories: adolescents, adults, children, disease management, drugs, educational, elderly, fact sheet, frequently asked questions, guidelines, immunization, microbiology, multilingual, multimedia, news, parents, press release, research, resource page, surveillance, toolkit, travel, vaccines, weekly report.
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WHO Global Influenza Preparedness Plan: The Role of WHO and Recommendations for National Measures before and during Pandemics
The WHO global influenza preparedness plan has been prepared to assist WHO Member States and those responsible for public health, medical and emergency preparedness to respond to threats and occurrences of pandemic influenza, thus updating and significantly revising the 1999 Plan. It redefines phases of increasing public-health risk, recommends actions for national authorities, and outlines measures to be taken by WHO. This WHO link provides an abstract with table of contents and access to the 53-page plan in PDF (the first chapter of which contains the executive summary).
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WHO Checklist for Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Planning
The objective of pandemic planning is to enable countries to be better prepared to recognize and manage an influenza pandemic. Planning may help to reduce transmission of the pandemic virus, to decrease cases, hospitalizations and deaths, to maintain essential services and to reduce the economic and social impact of an influenza pandemic. The checklist, prepared by WHO for the benefit of its Member States worldwide, reflects international expert opinion on the subject of influenza pandemic preparedness planning. The WHO link below provides an abstract and table of contents with access to the 39-page checklist.
WHO
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Influenza Summary Report 2005
This 23-page PDF of an Excel spreadsheet table provides tabulated data on influenza activity in the Region of the Americas in 2005, arranged by country and epidemiological week and showing city, number of specimens processed, A(H1), A(H3), B, other, activity, and results, with total numbers appearing at the end of the chart.
vir-flu-sum-rpt-2005.pdf
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Workshop on the Epidemiology and Surveillance of Influenza and Other Respiratory Diseases (Decatur, Georgia, USA, 9–13 May 2005)
The objectives of this meeting were (1) to discuss activities on the epidemiological and virological surveillance of influenza and analyze the subject of pandemic influenza, as well as present basic and advanced methods of influenza prevention and control; and (2) to find out the degree of progress made in the countries and coordinate development of National Preparedness Plans for a possible influenza pandemic, and to provide tools to assist in the planning process and discuss vaccines and antivirals as prevention and control methods, with a view to a possible pandemic. This page offers the executive summary and access to other conference documentation in Spanish.
vir-flu-decatur2005.htm
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PAHO-CDC Generic Proposal for Influenza Surveillance
Given the need to expand influenza surveillance, PAHO--in collaboration with CDC-- developed a new Generic Protocol for Influenza Surveillance (GPIS). The GPIS seeks to harmonize influenza surveillance throughout the Region and ensure that any single case of influenza caused by a new viral subtype be detected, as required by the IHR 2005.
flu-snl-gpis.htm
flu-snl-gpis.pdf
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