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Jun 30, 2009

Jun 30, 2009

PROMISING PRACTICES FOR PANDEMIC PLANNING Experts stress need for personal, community preparedness

Ayisha Yahya
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Jun 30, 2009

Editor's Note: CIDRAP's Promising Practices: Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Tools (www.publichealthpractices.org) online database showcases peer-reviewed practices, including useful tools to help others with their planning. This article is one of a series exploring the development of these practices. We hope that describing the process and context of these practices enhances pandemic planning.

Jun 30, 2009

Jun 30, 2009

Health officials say antiviral resistance likely in some pandemic flu cases

Jun 30, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – A spokesman for Roche, the maker of oseltamivir (Tamiflu), said yesterday that Denmark's report of resistance to the drug in a patient with novel H1N1 (swine) influenza, the first reported finding of its kind, wasn't surprising and that the news underscores the importance of monitoring for any viral changes.

Jun 29, 2009

Jun 29, 2009

Jun 29, 2009

Novel H1N1 flu can cause severe respiratory illness

Maryn McKenna
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Jun 29, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – Novel H1N1 influenza can cause severe respiratory illness, profound lung damage, and death even in patients with no underlying conditions to make them vulnerable, a team of physicians from Mexico report in a rush article published online today by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
Jun 29, 2009

Experts look for clues in 1918 pandemic virus family tree

Lisa Schnirring
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Jun 29, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – To outside observers, the novel H1N1 virus spreading quickly to every corner of the globe must seem like it came out of nowhere, but the organism is a fourth generation of the 1918 pandemic virus and comes from an H1N1 family tree that is colorful and complex, according to two historical reviews that appear today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

Jun 26, 2009

Jun 26, 2009

Jun 26, 2009

Texas program aims for Web-based school flu surveillance

Robert Roos
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Jun 26, 2009

Editor's note: CIDRAP's Promising Practices: Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Tools (www.publichealthpractices.org) online database showcases peer-reviewed practices, including useful tools to help others with their planning. This article is one of a series exploring the development of these practices. We hope that describing the process and context of these practices enhances pandemic planning.

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