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What's New

Epidemiological Alerts Archives, 2003–2008

European Antibiotic Awareness Day (18 November 2008)

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PAHO Activities

PAHO Programs

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Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO

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PAHO Regional Program on Food Safety: Working to Prevent and Control Food-Borne Diseases

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Regional Program on Antimicrobial Resistance: Combatting Resistance to Antibiotics in the Americas

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

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Community-Based Projects

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The 5 Key Ways Project: Adapting the WHO Manual on Food Safety for Use in Guatemalan Elementary Schools

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The 5 key ways to keep your food safe (Content Manual)

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Progress made in the Project on Adaptation and Validation of the 5 Key Ways Manual on Food Safety in Elementary Schools in Guatemala

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Activity Book, The 5 key ways to keep your food safe (Teacher's Guide)

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Conferences/Meetings Documents

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Annual Report of the Monitoring/Surveillance Network for Resistance to Antibiotics, 2004 (Brasilia, Brazil, 27-29 July 2005)

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Recommendations of a Group of Experts: Standards for the Use of Automated Identification Systems for Bacteria and Susceptibility to Antimicrobials (Brasilia, Brazil, 26–28 October 2004)

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Annual Report of the Monitoring/Surveillance Network for Resistance to Antibiotics 2003

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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)

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Other Events

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European Antibiotic Awareness Day (18 November 2008)

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Conferences/Meetings Documents, PAHO Events, Other Events
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Number of Cases and/or Deaths

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1990–2006 (cases)

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1991–2002 (cases & deaths)

 
Food Safety
 
Emerging & Reemerging Diseases
 
Antimicrobial Resistance
 

PAHO Regional Programs

- Antimicrobial Resistance
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