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Pages : 52

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Pages : 640

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Author: Center for Disease Control
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Category : Influenza
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240095039
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 67

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Epidemiological information on influenza comes from multiple sources. Participatory surveillance for influenza and influenza-like illness (ILI) is one approach for gathering information from the community to monitor trends in influenza, while also helping to inform other important public health issues. The approach should be considered to be complementary to other sources of influenza surveillance information. One advantage of participatory surveillance is that information comes from both asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals, and from symptomatic individuals who may not initially seek health care. Information may also come from members of the population who may be underrepresented in traditional facility-based surveillance. Where participatory surveillance for influenza and ILI has been implemented experience indicates that such systems are accurate, flexible, cost-effective and robust with regard to changes in health care seeking behaviour. However, there are also a number of limitations, challenges and biases that must be taken into consideration. This WHO document provides globally applicable guidance on implementing participatory surveillance for influenza and ILI based on expert input and abundant experience from countries in which such surveillance has been implemented. The document sets out best practices for public health officials to consider, either when looking to implement a participatory surveillance system or when making changes to an existing system.

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Category : Diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Category : Influenza
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Pages : 672

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Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309095042
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 431

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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.

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Category : Influenza
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Reports results of viral cultures for influenza during current and previous flu seasons by county from 1996 to the present. Also provides information on preparation for the next flu season and offers links to major health and flu sites.

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Pages : 116

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