Surveillance
Featured Surveillance Items
	SARS: Global Alert, Global Response This presentation of eight PowerPoint slides outlines how vital the global alert and response was in containing the worldwide SARS epidemic, how SARS is transmitted, its economic effects, and lessons learned for future application. PowerPoint
Situation Reports
	Preventing disease through healthy environments: Towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease
	Fire Tragedy in Paraguay
	Volcanic Eruption in Montserrat
	Charts on the Morbidity Situation of Children under Five in the Region of the Americas
Incidence/Mortality/Case Fatality
	Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Outbreaks
	WHO Guidance on Public Health Measures in Countries Experiencing Their First Outbreaks of H5N1 Avian Influenza
	WHO recommendations relating to travellers coming from and going to countries experiencing outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza
	Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER): Vol. 80, No. 33, pp. 277-288
	EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 18—7 May 2004
... more Outbreaks.
Epidemic Alert and Response
	National Influenza Pandemic Plans
	SARS: Global Alert, Global Response
	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
Guidelines and Manuals
	Infection Prevention and Control of Epidemic- and Pandemic-Prone Acute Respiratory Diseases in Health Care: WHO Interim Guidelines
	WHO Guidance on Public Health Measures in Countries Experiencing Their First Outbreaks of H5N1 Avian Influenza
	WHO recommendations relating to travellers coming from and going to countries experiencing outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza
Resistance Surveillance
	Third Joint Meeting of the Networks for Surveillance of Emerging Infectious Diseases (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 26-28 February 2004)
Laboratories
	CSP27.R10: Regional Policy and Strategy for Ensuring Quality of Health Care, Including Patient Safety
	PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centers and WHO Reference Laboratory for Influenza in the Americas
Health Profiles and Data
	Regional Core Health Data System - Indicators Glossary

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