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2006 Great Influenza Pandemic Guide Authoritative Medical Reference on Bird Flu Avian Flu H5N1 Threat with Federal Pandemic Influenza Plan and CDC Material Author:U.S. Government This up-to-date compendium of major documents and reports from the federal government provides essential information on bird flu (avian flu) and the risk of pandemic influenza. It includes indispensable information from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), along with key excerpts of vital medical and clinical data from the just-released Fed... more »eral Pandemic Influenza Plan, introduced by Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt in November 2005. ?One of the most important public health issues our Nation and the world faces is the threat of a global disease outbreak called a pandemic. No one in the world today is fully prepared for a pandemic ? but we are better prepared today than we were yesterday - and we will be better prepared tomorrow than we are today. This HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan provides a blueprint from which to prepare for the challenges that lie ahead of us.? Topics covered include: · Why flu pandemics occur; animal reservoirs; distinguishing pandemic strains from seasonal influenza; viruses; H5N1
· Vaccine priority group recommendations and rationale
· Surveillance and diagnostic evaluation
· CDC Case Screening Form
· Assays, Avian Strains with High and Low Pathogenicity
· Rapid Diagnostic Tests
· Hospital Pandemic Influenza Triggers
· Transmission modes: Droplet, Contact, airborne
· Control of transmission in health care facilities
· Infection Control, management of infectious patients
· Care in the home: infection control, management of other persons in the home
· Schools, Workplaces, Community
· Clinical evaluation, case detection, clinical presentation
· Control guidance for healthcare providers
· Influenza complications: guidelines for management of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), Pneumonia severity index
· Antivirals: Usage, treatment, prophylaxis
· Community Containment measures
· Social Distance to prevent infection
· Quarantine ? experience with 2003 SARS outbreak
· Homes and Facilities for Isolation and Quarantine
· Travel-related Containment
· Health Information for Travelers
· CDC Quarantine Stations
· Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
· Clinician Information on Antivirals (Tamiflu, others)
· Inactivated and Live Intranasal Influenza Vaccines An influenza pandemic is a global outbreak of disease that occurs when a new influenza A virus appears or ?emerges? in the human population, causes serious illness, and then spreads easily from person to person worldwide. Pandemics are different from seasonal outbreaks or ?epidemics? of influenza. Seasonal outbreaks are caused by subtypes of influenza viruses that are already in existence among people, whereas pandemic outbreaks are caused by new subtypes or by subtypes that have never circulated among people or that have not circulated among people for a long time. Past influenza pandemics have led to high levels of illness, death, social disruption, and economic loss. There are many different subtypes of Influenza or ?flu? viruses. The subtypes differ based upon certain proteins on the surface of the virus (the hemagglutinin or ?HA? protein and the neuraminidase or the ?NA? protein). Pandemic viruses appear (or ?emerge?) as a result of a process called "antigenic shift,? which causes an abrupt or sudden, major change in influenza A viruses. These changes are caused by new combinations of the HA and/or NA proteins on the surface of the virus. This change results in a new influenza A virus subtype. The appearance of a new influenza A virus subtype is the first step toward a pandemic, but the new virus subtype also must spread easily from person to person to cause a pandemic. Once a new pandemic influenza virus emerges and spreads, it normally becomes established among people and moves around or ?circulates? for many years as seasonal epid« less
