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UN and World Bank Issue Global Progress Report on Avian Flu and Pandemic Preparedness: Specific Countries and Case Studies as Examples
[10/14/2008] | |
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Pakistan 2007: Family cluster of 5 brothers with H5N1 Avian Flu infection includes the full clinical spectrum from fatalities to the (rare) asymptomatic household contact case
[10/7/2008] | |
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WHO reports that 107/107 (100%) of influenza A (H1N1) human viruses this flu season are resistant to oseltamivir (Tamiflu) (Note: This is not avian H5N1)
[10/7/2008] | |
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New H5N1 virus Clade 2.3.4 (‘Fujian-like lineage’) available for vaccine development
[9/14/2008] | |
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New H5N1 Patients in China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand as Winter Nears
26 November 2006 [1/1/2006] | |
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Flu Color Table: Three types of Influenza Vaccines
28 November 2005 [1/1/2006] | |
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WHO Reference Labs developing new experimental H5N1 vaccine prototype strains
11 November 2005 [1/1/2006] | |
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Africa and the Threat of Avian and Pandemic Flu: The US Should Act Now
October 29, 2005 [11/13/2005] | |
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New H5N1 infections in Avians in Romania, Russia, China, Thailand, and in birds smuggled into Taipei, China; First new human infection in Thailand in 12 months; No evidence of “P2P” or “P5P” transmission
October 21, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [10/23/2005] | |
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Avian H5N1 Influenza Virus Confirmed in Europe Today
October 13, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [10/20/2005] | |
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October 4-8: The 100-Hour “Tipping Point” in US Pandemic Flu Awareness
October 9, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [10/11/2005] | |
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US to stockpile second drug (zanamivir) to treat H5N1 influenza, add $100 million worth of H5N1 vaccine, and travel to SE Asia in October
September 17, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [9/30/2005] | |
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UN Director General appoints WHO Expert to Lead Avian Flu Efforts, New WHO paper on H5N1, and more cases in Indonesia
September 29, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [9/30/2005] | |
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Bird Flu closes Jakarta Zoo, H5N1 human case(s) confirmed
September 20, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [9/30/2005] | |
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WHO issues new H5N1 pandemic flu recommendations for policy makers
September 14, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [9/13/2005] | |
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Children and H5N1: Ages, Fatalities, and Antiviral Limitations
August 30, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [8/29/2005] | |
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“Necessary but Not Sufficient”: The 3 Million Courses of Oseltamivir for H5N1 Nascent Pandemic Control. Five (5) Other Criteria are Required, Similar to the US Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI)
August 25, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [8/24/2005] | |
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WHO to receive 3 million treatment courses (30 million capsules) of the only oral anti-H5N1 drug (oseltamivir) by mid-2006 as outbreaks spread to Kazakhstan, Russia and Tibet24
August 24 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [8/23/2005] | |
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H5N1 Flu Virus Confirmed in Russia; Is Mongolia Next?
August 8, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [8/8/2005] | |
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H5N1: Hypercytokinemia and Hemophagocytosis
July 29, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [7/28/2005] | |
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H5N1 Lab Research at CDC: Important Science, Predictable Accusations
July 23, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [7/24/2005] | |
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Indonesia: H5N1 now in Humans in addition to Poultry and Pigs
July 22, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [7/21/2005] | |
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Thailand Avian Flu Newsletter
June 17, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [7/3/2005] | |
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H5N1 Vaccines: Update
June 9, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [6/8/2005] | |
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H5N1 Cases rise to 97 with Changing Epidemiology in 2005: WHO Director-General calls avian influenza “the most serious known health threat the world is facing today”.
May 20, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [5/19/2005] | |
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Cities Readiness Initiative expanding to 36 Cities: Mass distribution of (effective) antibiotics
May 14, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biological counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [5/13/2005] | |
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“Pacific Storm”: Tabletop Exercise for a Pandemic H5N1 Flu
May 9, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH, Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [5/8/2005] | |
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Oseltamivir, Influenza, and the Media
April 28, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH, Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [4/27/2005] | |
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Dangerous H2N2 influenza virus mistakenly sent for lab testing
April 13, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [4/12/2005] | |
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H5N1 flu virus toll rises to 74 patients with 49 dead: Pandemic Prodrome?
March 31, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [3/30/2005] | |
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Avian influenza: 88% of initial 50 cases are 1-30 years old
February 14, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [2/13/2005] | |
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H7N7 Avian Flu in the Netherlands: High Rate of Human-to-Human transmission
January 14, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [1/13/2005] | |
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New H5N1 Deaths in Vietnam
January 11, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [1/10/2005] | |
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The US Pandemic Influenza Plan: Just in Time?
August 31, 2004: Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH, Director for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [8/30/2004] | |