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Epidemiological Alerts Archives, 2003–2008
(Note: Series renamed, formerly EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas.)
The purpose of these alerts is to disseminate information on the latest public-health events that have been identified as risks to health, trade, and/or international travel. Most of these events are primarily due to infectious agents, while others are due to chemical or physical agents. The PAHO Epidemiological Alerts published at the regional level (for the Americas) complement the WHO Disease Outbreak News published at the global level. The latest issues can be found at the new site, 2009 onwards.
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PAHO Activities

Featured Activity Items

V^th Meeting of the Surveillance Network for Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Amazon Countries
This yearly meeting was sponsored by PAHO and three US government agencies: Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Agency for International Development (USAID). This page offers a summary on compliance with the past year's recommendations and the recommendations made at the meeting, as well as access to the final report in Spanish.
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VI^th Meeting of the Southern Cone Surveillance Network for Emerging Infectious Diseases (Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 4–5 March 2005)
This yearly meeting was sponsored by PAHO and three US government agencies: Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Agency for International Development (USAID). This page offers a summary on compliance with the past year's recommendations and the recommendations made at the meeting, as well as access to the final report in Spanish.
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SARS: Developing a Research Response (30 May 2003, NIH/NIAID, Bethesda, MD, USA)
In order to address research needs on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), PAHO/WHO participated together with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, USA, in an all-day scientific workshop at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The workshop featured international experts in the fields of coronavirus biology, vaccine development, antiviral drug development, laboratory diagnosis, SARS epidemiology, etiology and clinical management. This page provides a link to the NIH site with the presentations made at the workshop.
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PAHO Programs

Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO

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

The PAHO Regional Program on Viral Diseases

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

Community-Based Projects

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)

Drains & You: A Manual for Drainage Maintenance Workers

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

Workplans

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)

Proceedings from Conferences and Meetings

V^th 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)

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

PAHO Events

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

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

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

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

Courses and Seminars

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

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

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

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

EID Networks

Fact Sheets

Meetings

Amazon Region

Central America

Southern Cone

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)