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EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas

Ist Meeting on the Practical Approach to Lung Health (PAL) Strategy (San José, Costa Rica, 4–6 December 2006)

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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

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Preventing disease through healthy environments: Towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease

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Fire Tragedy in Paraguay

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Volcanic Eruption in Montserrat

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Charts on the Morbidity Situation of Children under Five in the Region of the Americas

Incidence/Mortality/Case Fatality

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

Outbreaks

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

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

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Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER): Vol. 80, No. 33, pp. 277-288

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EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 18—7 May 2004

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Epidemic Alert and Response

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National Influenza Pandemic Plans

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SARS: Global Alert, Global Response

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SARS: Developing a Research Response (30 May 2003, NIH/NIAID, Bethesda, MD, USA)

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Resolution of the World Health Assembly

Guidelines and Manuals

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

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

Resistance Surveillance

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Third Joint Meeting of the Networks for Surveillance of Emerging Infectious Diseases (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 26-28 February 2004)

Laboratories

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PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centers and WHO Reference Laboratory for Influenza in the Americas

Health Profiles and Data

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Regional Core Health Data System - Indicators Glossary

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