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What's New
	RIMSA 15: Inter-American Meeting at Ministerial Level on Health and Agriculture (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 11–12 June 2008) PANAFTOSA

	3rd Interagency Meeting on Strategic Communication for Avian/Pandemic Influenza. \|More in HTML\|

	*VPH News:* Communication Channel of the PAHO Veterinary Public Health Unit \|More in HTML\|

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Press Releases & News
	PAHO Today - August 2006 Edition \|More in HTML\|

	Agencies Join Forces to Inform and Educate on Avian Flu and Human Pandemic Risks in the Americas \|More in HTML\|

	PAHO Honors Volunteers on World Blood Donor Day \|More in HTML\| ../../../Images/DD/PIN/blood.jpg

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	Helping Prevent Avian Influenza in Latin America and the Caribbean: FAO Handbook Offers Guidance to Small Poultry Farmers
	WHO Tries to Allay Fears Over Bird Flu

Information for Journalists
	Bird Flu: Communicating the Risk
	WHO Handbook for Journalists: Influenza Pandemic

Travel Information
	Travelers' Health CDC

	International Travel and Health WHO

	WHO recommendations relating to travellers coming from and going to countries experiencing outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza WHO

Fact Sheets
	Communicable Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO: Aims, Strategies and Lines of Action \|More in HTML\|

	Health Surveillance and Disease Management at PAHO \|More in HTML\|

	Veterinary Public Health at PAHO \|More in HTML\|

	Healthy Food Markets WHO brochure

	Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza Outbreaks in Poultry and in Humans: Food Safety Implications WHO

	Avian Influenza A (H5N1) in Humans and in Poultry in Asia: Food Safety Considerations WHO

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
	Avian Influenza Frequently Asked Questions WHO

	Key Facts About Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) and Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus CDC

	Avian Influenza: Frequently Asked Questions (Weekly Epidemiological Record 80:44, pp. 377-384) WHO/WER

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Links to WHO & Other Sites
	Bird Flu: Preparation, Not Panic! Video

	Influenza Page of the Secretariat of Health of Mexico Influenza page, SSA-México

	GF-TADs: Global Framework for the Progressive Control of Transboundary Diseases OIE

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WHO Avian Influenza Page

IDB/PAHO paper: Avian and Human Pandemic Influenza: Addressing the Need for Integration between Health and Agriculture in the Preparedness Plans in Latin America

Latest Updates
	EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 5, No. 1, 7 January 2008: Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza (LPAI) H5N2 in the Dominican Republic
	WHO Avian Influenza Updates
	WHO Public Health Mapping and GIS Map Library
	OIE Update on Avian Influenza in Birds
	FAO Animal Health Special Report (Avian Influenza)
	Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED-mail) \| español \| português

Situation Reports
	Situation Updates— Avian Influenza WHO/EPR

Policy Documents, Resolutions
	Brasilia Declaration PANAFTOSA

	National Preparedness and Response Plan for an Influenza Pandemic (Mexico) Plan Nacional, SSA-México

Guidelines, Human Component (WHO)

	General Guidelines
	Diagnosis & Treatment
	Food Safety

	Infection Control
	Surveillance
	Vaccines & Antivirals


	Recommendations and Laboratory Procedures for Detection of Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus in Specimens from Suspected Human Cases WHO

	A Guide to Healthy Food Markets WHO

	WHO Guidance on Public Health Measures in Countries Experiencing Their First Outbreaks of H5N1 Avian Influenza WHO

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Guidelines, Animal Component (FAO, OIE)
	Press Release in English: Helping Prevent Avian Influenza in Latin America and the Caribbean: FAO Handbook Offers Guidance to Small Poultry Farmers Guide in Spanish: Guide for the Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Small-Scale Poultry Farms in Latin America and the Caribbean \| Full text
	Global Strategy for the Progressive Control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) (FAO)
	Avian Influenza: Guidelines for Control of the Disease (OIE) \| français

Newsletters, Animal Component
	*VPH News:* Communication Channel of the PAHO Veterinary Public Health Unit \|More in HTML\|

	*EID Updates:* Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 5, No. 1 (7 January 2008) \|More in HTML\|

	*VPH News:* (Year 1, No. 1, July 2007) \|More in PDF\|

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Conferences & Meetings
	RIMSA 15: Inter-American Meeting at Ministerial Level on Health and Agriculture (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 11–12 June 2008) PANAFTOSA

	3rd Interagency Meeting on Strategic Communication for Avian/Pandemic Influenza. \|More in HTML\|

	Subegional Risk and Outbreak Communication for Avian Influenza and Pandemic Preparedness Workshop \|More in HTML\|

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Regional Events Directory, Veterinary Public Health

Food Safety
	A Guide to Healthy Food Markets WHO

	Healthy Food Markets WHO brochure

	Avian Influenza and Food Safety: Statement by Dr. LEE Jong-Wook, WHO Director-General WHO

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Databases
	SIEPI: Epidemiological database with regional prevalence data for the Americas, maintained by PAHO's Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease (PANAFTOSA), which deals with zoonoses and food-safety issues.
	FAOSTAT-Agriculture: Provides statistics on crops, livestock, irrigation, land use, fertilizer, pesticide consumption, and agricultural machinery. \| español \| français

PAHO Virtual Health Libraries (VHLs)
	Portal Avian Influenza, Virtual Health Library (VHL) VHL

	PANAFTOSA Virtual Health Library (VHS), Full Texts PANAFTOSA

	Virtual Library in Veterinary Public Health (VHL PANAFTOSA) VHL PANAFTOSA