Avian Influenza and the Pandemic Threat

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FAO Avian Influenza Disease Emergency news released the latest Situation Update, number 55.

Table of contents

• Viet Nam: H5N1 HPAI pathogenicity rising, but situation in check
• Egypt: Avian influenza now officially endemic
• Bird-to-cattle transmission: H5N1 avian influenza could probably infect bovine calves
• Avian influenza: Animals successfully immunized in trials
• Most Recent HPAI Outbreaks 2006-08
• H5N1 HPAI Global Overview: April 2008
• At a glance
• Summary of confirmed HPAI outbreaks

Source: IRIN
4 August 2008 | Dakar, Senegal -- Niger’s Ministry of Livestock is intensifying its bird surveillance along the 1,500-kilometre border with northern Nigeria after a recent resurgence of bird deaths.

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Source: FAO
23 July 2008 | Vientiane, People's Democratic Republic of Lao -- A major thrust in the fight to combat avian flu is to help prepare the people on the frontline to be able to respond quickly and effectively when an outbreak occurs. The frontline is almost always at local level, and the protagonists are inevitably poultry farmers and their communities, as well as local, district and provincial animal health workers.

PREPARING REGIONAL LEADERS WITH THE KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND INSTRUMENTS FOR INFORMATION SHARING AND DECISION-MAKING AGAINST BIOLOGICAL THREATS AND PANDEMICS
PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

The NATO - Advanced Study Institute will be held over 11 days.

The objective of the conference is preparing strong leaders, scientists and perspective decision makers with the contemporary knowledge to detect and contain pandemic disease threats in a synergistic forum to enhance global and local information sharing, collaboration, cooperation against pandemics and biological threats.

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COOPERATIVE ARRANGEMENT FOR PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES THROUGH AIR TRAVEL (CAPSCA)

SECOND MEETING OF THE REGIONAL AVIATION MEDICINE TEAM
Bangkok, Thailand, 12 September 2008

Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

For more information, please visit the conference web site: International Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza

From 6 to 9 May 2008, a WHO consultation was held in Geneva as part of a process for guiding the substantial updating and revision of WHO guidance to countries on how best to prepare for and respond to a human influenza pandemic. Representatives of 30 Member States from around the world addressed a range of technical and other issues. The goal of the consultation was to review a number of draft guidance documents and proposed approaches, and to obtain feedback from participants on the likely usefulness of these in national planning efforts.