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Pandemic Preparedness Guidelines
The United Nations (UN) Medical Directors developed this document to provide guidance to UN organizations to prepare and respond to an influenza pandemic. Technical input was provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other public health and infectious disease experts.
Watch the recent webcast discussion on the 2010 Report
15 September 2010 - The UN and WB hosted a discussion on the publication of the final UN/World Bank 2010 report entitled "Animal and Pandemic Influenza – A Framework for Sustaining Momentum."
April 2010 Global Report on Animal and Pandemic Influenza
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UN public health arm to determine most vulnerable age groups
Source: UN 28 July 2009 -- The focus of the United Nations health agency’s efforts in easing the impact of influenza A(H1N1) has shifted to identifying age groups most at risk from contracting the virus, a World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson said today.
Death toll from influenza outbreak nears 800
Source: UN 24 July 2009 -– Influenza A(H1N1) is continuing to spread through all corners of the world, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today, putting the global death toll from the pandemic at around 800.
Some 160 countries and territories have now reported laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus, but how it could potentially change over the coming weeks is still unknown, WHO spokesperson Gregory Hartl told reporters in Geneva.
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- 1 May 2008
In the news
Effort aims to merge technology from four companies to create the first sticker with all-printed electronics... A plastic temperature-recording sticker that could provide detailed histories of crates of food or bottles of vaccine would be the first to use all-printed electronics components—including memory, logic, and even the battery. The cost per sticker could be only 30 cents or less. {Technology Review, 30 Jan}
Canadian researchers have reported a study in which both young children and middle-aged adults had little evidence of immune protection against swine-origin influenza H3N2 viruses like those that have been reported recently in a dozen US children. {CIDRAP News, 27 Jan}
Ralph Tripp is the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Vaccine Development in the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine. The influenza virus can rapidly evolve from one form to another, complicating the effectiveness of vaccines and antiviral {Infection Control Today, 27 Jan}
Avian Influenza outbreak information
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