Coping with flu season

E Weir - 2000 - Can Med Assoc
Influenza viruses belong to the Orthomyxoviridae family and consist of types A, B and C.
Influenza A viruses are classified into subtypes on the basis of their 2 surface glycoproteins …

Preparing for a pandemic: public health experts say the occurrence of another worldwide influenza outbreak is not in doubt. Internal auditors need to help ensure …

J Ying, AD Ash, T Sly - Internal Auditor, 2007 - go.gale.com
IN SLIGHTLY MORE THAN A CENTURY, the world has experienced four influenza
pandemics. The most severe was the 1918 pandemic, with as many as 50 million deaths …

Fighting the Flu: Risk, Uncertainty and Surveillance 1

I Scoones - Epidemics, 2010 - api.taylorfrancis.com
In June 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared that the world was
experiencing a global pandemic of H1N1 influenza. An initial outbreak of a new virus in …

Pandemic influenza: Appropriations for public health preparedness and response

SA Lister - 2007 - apps.dtic.mil
The spread of H5N1 avian influenza flu on three continents, and the human deaths it has
caused, raise concern that the virus could morph and cause a global human pandemic …

Pandemic influenza: Domestic preparedness efforts

SA Lister - 2005 - apps.dtic.mil
In 1997, a new avian influenza flu virus emerged in Asia and jumped directly from birds to
humans, killing six people. The virus has since spread to more than 50 countries in Asia …

Preparing for The Influenza Pandemic

A Osterhaus, T dos Santos, O Oliva - … -PAN AMERICAN HEALTH …, 2006 - books.google.com
Influenza pandemics, which over time have occurred at irregular and unpredictable
intervals, have been associated with substantial human morbidity, mortality, and social …

[PDF][PDF] A Killer Flu? Scientific Experts Estimate that" Inevitable" Major Epidemic of New Influenza Virus Strain Could Result in Millions of Deaths if Preventive Actions …

MA Hamburg, SA Hearne, J Levi, K Elliott, LM Segal… - 2005 - hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu
Based on historical trends and projections, virologists and epidemiologists predict a new flu
pandemic will emerge three to four times each century. 8 Health officials around the world …

[BOOK][B] Pandemic Influenza: 4th Report of Session 2005-06; Report with Evidence

House of Lords, Technology Committee - 2005 - books.google.com
Since the 1600s there have been approximately three influenza pandemics a century.
Although it is not possible to anticipate their timing, it is feared that the virulent strain of avian …

[BOOK][B] Influenza and public health: learning from past pandemics

T Giles-Vernick, S Craddock, J Gunn - 2010 - books.google.com
Major influenza pandemics pose a constant threat. As evidenced by recent H5N1 avian flu
and novel H1N1, influenza outbreaks can come in close succession, yet differ in their …

[BOOK][B] Influenza and public health: Learning from past pandemics

JL Gunn, S Craddock, T Giles-Vernick - 2010 - books.google.com
Major influenza pandemics pose a constant threat. As evidenced by recent H5N1 avian flu
and novel H1N1, influenza outbreaks can come in close succession, yet differ in their …