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 APHA (American Public Health Association). APHA's prescription for pandemic flu. Released Feb 22, 2007 [Full text]
CDC. CDC influenza pandemic operation plan (OPLAN). Released Dec 20, 2006 [Full text]
CDC. Interim guidance for airline flight crews and persons meeeting passengers arriving from areas with avian influenza. Published Feb 18, 2004; updated frequently [Web page]
CDC. Interim pre-pandemic planning guidance: community strategy for pandemic influenza mitigation in the United States--early, targeted, layered use of nonpharmaceutical interventions. Released Feb 1, 2007 [Full text]
CDC. Interim public health guidance for the use of facemasks and respirators in non-occupational community settings during an influenza pandemic. Released May 3, 2007 [Full text]
CDC. Interim recommendations for infection control in health-care facilities caring for patients with known or suspected avian influenza [Webpage]
CDC. Updated interim guidance for laboratory testing of persons with suspected infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in the United States. Jun 7, 2006 [Full text]
Department of Health (UK). Links to reports on UK's national plan, including guidance for hospitals, ambulance services, primary care, and adult social care as well as ethical considerations, released Nov 22 [Full text]
DOT (US Department of Transportation). Sub-sector pandemic influenza planning guidelines (for aviation, highway and motor carrier, maritime, mass transit, and railroad sub-sectors). Released Apr 1, 2008, as annexes to DHS preparedness guidelines [Web site, with links to PDFs]
FDA. FDA pandemic influenza preparedness strategic plan. Released Mar 14, 2007 [Full text]
FDA. Guidance for industry: clinical data needed to support the licensure of pandemic influenza vaccines. May 31, 2007 [Full text]
HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Providing mass medical care with scarce resources: a community planning guide. Nov 16, 2006 [Full text]
HHS. Draft guidance on allocating and targeting pandemic influenza vaccine. Released Oct 23, 2007 [Full text]
HHS. Guidance on antiviral drug use during an influenza pandemic. Dec 15, 2008 [Full text]
HHS. Interim guidance for cargo trucking crews for the prevention of pandemic influenza. Mar 23, 2009 [Full text]
HHS. Interim guidance on cleaning transit vehicles and facilities during a pandemic. Mar 11, 2009 [Full text of a number of documents]
HHS. Interim guidance on planning for the use of surgical masks and respirators in health care settings during an influenza pandemic. Oct 17, 2006 [Full text]
HHS. Pandemic influenza implementation plan. Released Dec 18, 2006 [Full text]
HHS. Pandemic influenza plan. Released Nov 2, 2005 [Links to overview and full text]
HHS. Tabletop exercises for pandemic influenza preparedness in local public health agencies. Dec 5, 2006 [Full text]
HHS/DHS. Guidance on allocating and targeting pandemic influenza vaccine. Jul 23, 2008 [Full text]
Home Office (UK). Planning for a possible influenza pandemic: a framework for planners preparing to manage deaths. Aug 30, 2007 [Full text]
IDSA (Infectious Diseases Society of America). Pandemic and seasonal influenza principles for US action. Released Jan 25, 2007 [Full text]
IOM (Institute of Medicine). Antivirals for pandemic influenza: guidance on developing a distribution and dispensing program. Released Apr 25, 2008 [Link to full text]
Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics. Allocating pandemic influenza vaccines in Minnesota: recommendations of the pandemic influenza ethics work group. Sep 2006 [Abstract]
OSHA. Guidance on preparing workplaces for an influenza pandemic. Released Feb 6, 2007 [Full text]
OSHA. Pandemic influenza preparedness and response guidance for healthcare workers and healthcare employers. Released May 21, 2007 [Full text]
OSHA. Proposed guidance on workplace stockpiling of respirators and facemasks for pandemic influenza. Released May 13, 2008 [Full text]
PHAC (Public Health Agency of Canada). The Canadian pandemic influenza plan for the health sector. Released Dec 9, 2006 [Full text]
Royal Society, and Academy of Medical Sciences. Pandemic influenza: science to policy. Nov 20, 2006 [Full text]
US government. Federal guidance to assist states in improving state-level pandemic influenza operating plans. Mar 11, 2008 [Full text]
WHO. Antigenic and genetic characteristics of H5N1 viruses and candidate H5N1 vaccine viruses developed for potential use as human vaccines. Updated Feb 2009 [Full text]
WHO. Availability of H5N1 prototype strains for influenza pandemic vaccine development. Feb 2005 [Full text]
WHO. Avian influenza, including influenza A (H5N1), in humans; WHO interim infection control guideline for health care facilities. Revised May 10, 2007 [Full text]
WHO. Collecting, preserving and shipping specimens for the diagnosis of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection: Guide for field operations. Released Nov 6, 2006; to be updated frequently [Full text]
WHO. Global pandemic influenza action plan to increase vaccine supply. Oct 23, 2006 [Full text]
WHO. Infection control recommendations for avian influenza in health-care. Apr 19, 2006 (concise guide based on full recommendations updated Feb 9, 2006) [Full text]
WHO. Influenza research at the human and animal interface: report of a WHO working group. Released Nov 1, 2006 [Full text]
WHO. WHO case definitions for human infections with influenza A(H5N1) virus. Aug 29, 2006 [Full text]
WHO. WHO global influenza preparedness plan: the role of WHO and recommendations for national measures before and during pandemics. Released Apr 12, 2005 [Full text]
WHO. WHO pandemic influenza draft protocol for rapid response and containment. May 30, 2006 [Full text]
WHO. WHO rapid advice guidelines on pharmacological management of humans infected with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus. May 2006 [Summary with link to full text]
WHO. WHO recommendations relating to travellers coming from and going to countries experiencing outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza. Nov 2005 [Full text]
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