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Sep 3
New Item Malaria drug candidate with new mechanism tests well in mice

New Item NEWS SCAN: Pandemic planning and law, vaccine and narcolepsy, H5N1 spread, plant-based H5N1 vaccine, egg outbreak

Sep 2
New Item CDC: Healthcare groups need to share emergency plans

New Item NEWS SCAN: Double-strain Salmonella outbreak, new TB test hailed, pneumococcal vaccine guidance

Sep 1
New Item FDA reports pull back curtain on Salmonella risk at egg farms

New Item NEWS SCAN: Anthrax vaccine contract, Salmonella in eggs, H5N1 shots in Taiwan, Staph skin infections

Aug 31
New Item SHEA joins call to require flu shots for health workers

New Item Latex labeling change causes minor delay for some flu vaccine

New Item NEWS SCAN: Monkeypox rising in Congo, smallpox vaccine deliveries slow, H5N1 case in Egypt

Aug 30
New Item FDA reports show multiple biosecurity gaps at two egg farms

New Item HHS funds development of drug for plague, tularemia

New Item NEWS SCAN: E coli beef recall, AAP flu vaccine guidance, Tamiflu-resistant H1N1, DoD budget cuts, vaccine-autism ruling

Aug 27
New Item West Nile infections raise preparedness concerns in Europe

New Item Congress food watchdog sets egg-recall hearing

New Item NEWS SCAN: WHO flu update, death and H1N1, narcolepsy probe, foodborne pathogen test

Aug 26
New Item CDC's new seasonal flu death estimates reflect disease variability

New Item Tests find outbreak strain at Wright County Egg farms, in feed

New Item NEWS SCAN: Flu up Down Under, Tamiflu-resistant H1N1, H5N1 death in Egypt, recalled CSL H1N1 vaccine

Aug 25
New Item States affected by egg recall grow to 23

New Item NEWS SCAN: H5N1 in Egypt, H1N1 patterns in China, dengue advisory

Aug 24
New Item Study finds pandemic sorely tested hospital mask, respirator supplies

New Item NEWS SCAN: Congress asks egg questions, deli meat recalled, Finland suspends H1N1 vaccine, H5N1 virulence mechanism

Aug 23
New Item Investigators follow egg farm ties in Salmonella outbreak probe

New Item NEWS SCAN: H1N1 in New Zealand, India; hand sanitizer at work; H5N1 in feathers; experimental Ebola, Marburg therapy

Aug 20
New Item Experts offer perspective on NDM-1 resistance threat

New Item WHO: India, New Zealand still reporting pandemic flu activity

New Item NEWS SCAN: Second Iowa farm recalls eggs, Salmonella Typhi update, dengue in the US, MVA-based flu vaccines, high-profile pertussis message

Aug 19
New Item HHS sees greater federal role in building biodefense tools

New Item Obama's science advisors outline plan for faster pandemic vaccine

New Item Salmonella investigation spurs expanded egg recall

New Item NEWS SCAN: Preparedness funding, health security report, pasteurized milk contamination, adolescent vaccine coverage

Aug 18
New Item Pharmacy chains poised for universal flu vaccination push

New Item NEWS SCAN: Infection control lapses in trainees, flu strains New Zealand hospital, vaccine-narcolepsy link suspected

Aug 17
New Item More Salmonella cases linked to recalled eggs

New Item NEWS SCAN: Diseases in flooded Pakistan, measles in Africa, H5N1 in Vietnam, US helps H5N1 fight, spotting lab-grown pathogens

Aug 16
New Item Surge in Salmonella Enteritidis prompts egg recall

New Item NEWS SCAN: Flu in New Zealand, fatal resistant infection, Q fever and raw milk, SE Asian pandemic exercise

Aug 13
New Item India, New Zealand report high H1N1 activity

New Item Tropical fruit cited in US typhoid fever outbreak

New Item NEWS SCAN: Dengue in Broward County, vaccine market growth, more resistance cases

New Item FLU NEWS SCAN: School opening and pandemic H1N1, adjuvanted vaccine in elderly, H5N1 in Indonesia's pigs and poultry

Aug 12
New Item Norovirus, poultry leading culprits in US foodborne outbreaks

New Item NEWS SCAN: H5N1 in Egypt, pandemic vaccine efforts, polio lab inventory

      
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Promising Practices for Higher Ed


CIDRAP's Promising Practices has expanded to include H1N1 response activities for colleges and universities. The expansion is part of a larger project exploring the lessons that universities learned during the pandemic. Promising Practices now has more than 330 practices available.



MCEIRS Launches Online Training Portal

Two training series, 2009 H1N1 Influenza and Avian Influenza, are now available through the MCEIRS Online Training Portal. Each module contains several e-learning lessons and a knowledge check to reinforce learning. Continuing education credit and certificates are available. More...

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New Item Pandemic influenza control in Europe and the constraints resulting from incoherent public health laws
From BMC Public Health, published Sep 3

 
New Item Multiple-serotype Salmonella gastroenteritis outbreak after a reception--Connecticut, 2009
 
New Item Predicting need for hospitalization of patients with pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Chicago, Illinois, USA
From Emerg Infect Dis, published online Sep 2

 
New Item Genetic divergence of influenza A NS1 gene in pandemic 2009 H1N1 isolates with respect to H1N1 and H3N2 isolates from previous seasonal epidemics
 
New Item Influenza vaccination of healthcare personnel
Revised SHEA position paper published online Aug 31 in Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

 
New Item Safety of MF59-adjuvanted versus non-adjuvanted influenza vaccines in children and adolescents: an integrated analysis
From Vaccine, published online Aug 31

 
New Item Recommendations for prevention and control of influenza in children, 2010-2011
AAP policy statement published online Aug 30 in Pediatrics

 
New Item Seasonal flu information for workplaces & employees
 
New Item Hospitalized adult patients with 2009 influenza A(H1N1) in Beijing, China: risk factors for hospital mortality
From BMC Infect Dis, published Aug 27

 
New Item Changes in knowledge, perceptions, preventive behaviours and psychological responses in the pre-community outbreak phase of the H1N1 epidemic
From Epidemiol Infect, published online Aug 27

 
New Item Estimates of deaths associated with seasonal influenza--United States, 1976-2007
 
New Item Characterization of oseltamivir-resistant 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza A viruses
 
New Item Oseltamivir-resistant variants of the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus are not attenuated in the guinea pig and ferret transmission models
From J Virol, published online Aug 25

 
New Item Facial protective equipment, personnel, and pandemics: impact of the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus on personnel and use of facial protective equipment
From Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, published online Aug 23

 
New Item Guillain-Barre syndrome after exposure to influenza virus
From Sep Lancet Infect Dis

 
New Item Pandemic influenza--(some) reasons to be cheerful?
Editorial from Aug 21 Lancet

 
New Item Hospital discharge data for Guillain-Barre syndrome and influenza A (H1N1) vaccine adverse events
 
New Item The dengue threat to the United States
From Biosecur Bioterror, published online Aug 18

 
New Item Report to the president on reengineering the influenza vaccine production enterprise to meet the challenges of pandemic influenza
 
New Item The public health emergency medical countermeasures enterprise review
 
New Item The effect of mask use on the spread of influenza during a pandemic
 
New Item Historical thoughts on influenza viral ecosystems, or behold a pale horse, dead dogs, failing fowl, and sick swine
From Influenza Other Respi Viruses, published Aug 4

 
New Item Influenza A (H5N1) viruses from pigs, Indonesia
From Emerg Infect Dis, published online Aug 12

 
New Item Detection of Coxiella burnetii in commercially available raw milk from the US
From Foodborne Pathog Dis, published online Aug 12

 
New Item Foodborne proportion of gastrointestinal illness: estimates from a Canadian expert elicitation survey
From Foodborn Pathog Dis, published online Aug 12

 
New Item School opening dates predict pandemic influenza A(H1N1) outbreaks in the United States
From J Infect Dis, published online Aug 12

 
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