Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response write by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2009. Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This guidance is an update of WHO global influenza preparedness plan: the role of WHO and recommendations for national measures before and during pandemics, published March 2005 (WHO/CDS/CSR/GIP/2005.5).
The Threat of Pandemic Influenza
The Threat of Pandemic Influenza - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Threat of Pandemic Influenza write by Institute of Medicine. This book was released on 2005-04-09. The Threat of Pandemic Influenza available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pandemic, which many experts believe to be inevitable. Moreover, recent problems with the availability and strain-specificity of vaccine for annual flu epidemics in some countries and the rise of pandemic strains of avian flu in disparate geographic regions have alarmed experts about the world's ability to prevent or contain a human pandemic. The workshop summary, The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? addresses these urgent concerns. The report describes what steps the United States and other countries have taken thus far to prepare for the next outbreak of "killer flu." It also looks at gaps in readiness, including hospitals' inability to absorb a surge of patients and many nations' incapacity to monitor and detect flu outbreaks. The report points to the need for international agreements to share flu vaccine and antiviral stockpiles to ensure that the 88 percent of nations that cannot manufacture or stockpile these products have access to them. It chronicles the toll of the H5N1 strain of avian flu currently circulating among poultry in many parts of Asia, which now accounts for the culling of millions of birds and the death of at least 50 persons. And it compares the costs of preparations with the costs of illness and death that could arise during an outbreak.
Flu
Flu - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flu write by Gina Kolata. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Flu available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Veteran journalist Gina Kolata's Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It presents a fascinating look at true story of the world's deadliest disease. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic raged. Children were left orphaned and families were devastated. As many American soldiers were killed by the 1918 flu as were killed in battle during World War I. And no area of the globe was safe. Eskimos living in remote outposts in the frozen tundra were sickened and killed by the flu in such numbers that entire villages were wiped out. Scientists have recently rediscovered shards of the flu virus frozen in Alaska and preserved in scraps of tissue in a government warehouse. Gina Kolata, an acclaimed reporter for The New York Times, unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. Delving into the history of the flu and previous epidemics, detailing the science and the latest understanding of this mortal disease, Kolata addresses the prospects for a great epidemic recurring, and, most important, what can be done to prevent it.
Exploring Lessons Learned from a Century of Outbreaks
Exploring Lessons Learned from a Century of Outbreaks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring Lessons Learned from a Century of Outbreaks write by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. This book was released on 2019-06-05. Exploring Lessons Learned from a Century of Outbreaks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In November 2018, an ad hoc planning committee at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine planned two sister workshops held in Washington, DC, to examine the lessons from influenza pandemics and other major outbreaks, understand the extent to which the lessons have been learned, and discuss how they could be applied further to ensure that countries are sufficiently ready for future pandemics. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from both workshops.
Global Health and the Future Role of the United States
Global Health and the Future Role of the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Health and the Future Role of the United States write by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. This book was released on 2017-10-05. Global Health and the Future Role of the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While much progress has been made on achieving the Millenium Development Goals over the last decade, the number and complexity of global health challenges has persisted. Growing forces for globalization have increased the interconnectedness of the world and our interdependency on other countries, economies, and cultures. Monumental growth in international travel and trade have brought improved access to goods and services for many, but also carry ongoing and ever-present threats of zoonotic spillover and infectious disease outbreaks that threaten all. Global Health and the Future Role of the United States identifies global health priorities in light of current and emerging world threats. This report assesses the current global health landscape and how challenges, actions, and players have evolved over the last decade across a wide range of issues, and provides recommendations on how to increase responsiveness, coordination, and efficiency â€" both within the U.S. government and across the global health field.
