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Center for Biologic Counterterrorism
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MedStar Health Group   Washington, DC   Thursday, October 9, 2008
Craig Feied, MD, FACEP, FAAEM   Jon Handler, MD, FACEP   Michael Gillam, MD
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Set top		 9 October 2008 Newsletter
9 October 2008 [10/9/2008]
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Set top		 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
[10/8/2008]
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Set top		 22 U.S. contracts for “Covered Countermeasures” against anthrax listed in HHS PREP Act Declaration
[10/5/2008]
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Set top		 US to make antibiotics available for postal workers and household members as CRI preparedness for anthrax
[10/4/2008]
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Set top		 Acanthamoeba in vitro to co-culture the bacteria that cause tularemia: A model system in multiple laboratories in Europe and North America.
[10/1/2008]
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Set top		 WHO updates Candidate H5N1 vaccine virus list for potential use as human vaccines
[9/29/2008]
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Set top		 Tularemia Risk Communication: CDC’s “Communicating in the First Hours”
[9/24/2008]
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Set top		 Nipah Virus 10 Years-After-Emergence in Malaysia and Singapore and then outbreaks in Bangladesh and India
22 September 2008 [9/22/2008]
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Set top		 New H5N1 virus Clade 2.3.4 (‘Fujian-like lineage’) available for vaccine development
[9/16/2008]
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Set top		 Past and Future Newsletters on Tularemia
[9/9/2008]
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Set top		 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)
[8/25/2008]
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Set top		 Bacterial pneumonia after influenza infection as the primary cause of death in the 1918-1919 pandemic: Need for bacterial vaccine and antibiotic stockpiles in 2008-2009.
[8/21/2008]
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Set top		 International Meeting on Emerging Diseases (IMED 2009) Updates Planned Scientific Program
[8/14/2008]
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Set top		 Indonesia reports that all of the suspected cases of avian flu tested negative in Asahan district, North Sumatra
[8/12/2008]
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Set top		 The Jakarta Post reports 13 persons suspected with bird flu in North Sumatra, but lab tests still pending.
[8/6/2008]
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Set top		 “Fx2” Francisella tularensis infection
31 July 2008 [8/1/2008]
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Set top		 Disease due to F. tularensis “Fx1” Infection
[7/31/2008]
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Set top		 Francisella tularensis novicida-like bacteria FX1 (FSC 156) and Fx2 (FSC 159) can be distinguished by P-TUL
[7/28/2008]
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Set top		 Indonesian health care providers emphasize need for point-of-care tests for H5N1 avian influenza
[7/22/2008]
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Set top		 Hong Kong Notifies Physicians to Anticipate Summer Influenza Peak
18 July 2008 [7/18/2008]
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Set top		 Does Francisella tularensis exist in nature in Acanthamoeba?
14 July 2008 [7/14/2008]
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Set top		 A large, ongoing measles epidemic in Switzerland associated with limited enthusiasm for MMR vaccination (illustration attached)
[7/3/2008]
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Set top		 U.S. settles lawsuit related to anthrax attacks of 2001
[7/2/2008]
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Set top		 Roche Announces New Plan for Businesses to Stockpile Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) for Pandemic Flu Preparedness
[6/29/2008]
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Set top		 WHO Holds Public Health Security Exercise
[6/28/2008]
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Set top		 26 June 2008 Funding Diagnostics H5n1
[6/27/2008]
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Set top		 WHO announces Infection Control Network Meeting in Geneva June 26-27
[6/25/2008]
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Set top		 Indonesia Reports Two Additional H5N1 Human Infections
[6/23/2008]
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Set top		 Indonesia Continues Preparedness for Avian Influenza and Communicable Diseases
[6/11/2008]
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Set top		 Bangladesh reports first human infection with H5N1 avian influenza
[5/31/2008]
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Set top		 WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan Opens 61st World Health Assembly citing 3 Global Crises
[5/23/2008]
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Set top		 FDA approves levofloxacin antibiotic for pediatric patients exposed to aerosolized Bacillus anthracis (inhalational anthrax)
[5/22/2008]
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Set top		 Stockpiling estimates for facemasks for ill patients during waves of pandemic flu
[5/16/2008]
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Set top		 OSHA posts for comment preliminary draft guidance on use of masks and respirators for pandemic flu planning
[5/15/2008]
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Set top		 Sanofi Pasteur announces that H5N1 influenza Clade 2.2 bulk antigen enters US pandemic flu stockpile
[5/9/2008]
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Set top		 China: Enterovirus 71 cases increase to 15,799 as Ministry of Health mandates reporting of all cases
[5/7/2008]
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Set top		 WHO reports outbreak of over 1800 cases of enterovirus 71 in China
[5/5/2008]
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Set top		 “The Intolerable Global Burden of Malaria”: Slides by Dr. Joel Breman on World Malaria Day
[4/30/2008]
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Set top		 Indonesia completes 1,000-person, 3-day pandemic flu (“Flu Yang Mematikan”) simulation exercise with involvement of Bali airport
[4/28/2008]
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Set top		 The Jakarta Post reports on 3-day live simulation exercise drill of a pandemic influenza outbreak
[4/26/2008]
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Set top		 World Malaria Today: A conference on the occasion of the first world malaria day
[4/25/2008]
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Set top		 Anti-Malarial Artemisinin Combination Treatment (ACT) “Coartem” average price cut 20% beginning on World Malaria Day April 25,2008
[4/23/2008]
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Set top		 Indonesia announces a series of PanFlu simulations to begin with a large-scale exercise April 25-27 in Bali
[4/20/2008]
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Set top		 Restaurant Flyer Malaria (pdf)
[4/16/2008]
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Set top		 World Malaria Day SFS Webpage
The Mortara Center for International Studies, and the Center for Infectious Disease, Georgetown University invite you to a one-day symposium to coincide with the first World Malaria Day, April 25. [4/11/2008]
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Set top		 World Malaria Day Agenda
[4/10/2008]
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Set top		 Zanamivir (Relenza) influenza drug adds to its “Warnings and Precautions” based on reports of neuro-behavioral symptoms.
[4/8/2008]
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Set top		 Hong Kong Reopens Schools and Issues Guidelines on Face Masks and Checklists During Ongoing Flu Season
[3/31/2008]
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Set top		 CDC Conference Report on Anthrax Advises “Early and Aggressive Pleural Fluid Drainage
[3/29/2008]
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Set top		 Emergency Operation Centre inaugurated at the European CDC
[3/28/2008]
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Set top		 Human Influenza Outbreak in Hong Kong Stabilizing
[3/25/2008]
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Set top		 World TB Day and Global Tuberculosis Control 2008
[3/24/2008]
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Set top		 Hong Kong, Guangdong Province, and Macao experts meet March 17th to discuss influenza
[3/18/2008]
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Set top		 Hong Kong reports human influenza A (H1N1) as the cause of death in one child and Influenza A (H3N2) as the cause of death in another child, and not an unusual human or avian flu virus.
15 March 2008 [3/15/2008]
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Set top		 Courage Remembered: Five Years after the Initial WHO SARS Global Alert March 12, 2003, and Emergency Travel Advisory March 15, 2003
[3/14/2008]
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Set top		 Hong Kong closes all primary schools, kindergartens, and nurseries for two weeks due to human influenza outbreaks
[3/13/2008]
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Set top		 Key Messages for World TB Day March 24 and Recent Report on TB Drug-Resistance from the WHO
[3/11/2008]
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Set top		 Letter to Health Care Professionals from Manufacturer of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) Updates Neuropsychiatric Information in Package Insert
[3/10/2008]
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Set top		 World Malaria Day Website Created by WHO
[3/7/2008]
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Set top		 2008 02 28 Oseltamivir Resistant Flu H1N1 Japan
Feb 28, 2008 [2/29/2008]
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Set top		 WHO Update: H5N1 Virus Antigenic Changes and Relation to Candidate Human Vaccines
[2/26/2008]
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Set top		 WHO Director-General Chan welcomes new funding of $350 million/5 years for 7 Neglected Tropical Diseases in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
[2/23/2008]
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Set top		 Europe: More oseltamivir-resistant Influenza A (H1N1). WHO posts evolving global resistance database results.
[2/19/2008]
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Set top		 A new virus linked with a solid-organ transplant donor and the deaths of three transplant recipients
[2/12/2008]
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Set top		 CDC reports flu vaccine not well-matched for Influenza A (H3N2) or Influenza B, and unexplained Tamiflu resistance found in 8% of Influenza A (H1N1) isolates
[2/11/2008]
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Set top		 European CDC Update: 81/208 (39%) of H1N1 Influenza A isolates from France are resistant to Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) this Flu Season (Note: Not avian flu H5N1)
[2/8/2008]
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Set top		 2008-2009 Flu Vaccine composition meetings announced for this month at WHO and US FDA
[2/5/2008]
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Set top		 Summary table of H5N1 avian flu viruses shared with WHO 2003-2007
[2/4/2008]
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Set top		 Introducing ACAM2000
[2/2/2008]
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Set top		 WHO/ECDC posts 18 FAQs on new oseltamivir-resistant transmissible Influenza A (H1N1) Viruses and Canada also reports their presence
[2/1/2008]
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Set top		 Increasing Numbers of European Nations (9) Report High Level (H274Y) Oseltamivir (Tamiflu)-Resistant Human influenza A H1N1 (not H5N1 avian flu)
[2/1/2008]
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Set top		 European CDC Interim Report on Osletamivir (Tamiflu)-resistant (“H274Y”) Human Influenza A/ H1N1 Virus (not H5N1 avian flu)
[1/30/2008]
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Set top		 WHO posts 42 slides on containment strategy for the initial emergence of pandemic flu
[1/10/2008]
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Set top		 First World Malaria Day: April 25, 2008
[12/31/2007]
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Set top		 WHO News Briefing Update on Pakistan H5N1 Infections in Humans
[12/21/2007]
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Set top		 Pakistan Reports 8 Suspected H5N1 Avian Flu Patients and Myanmar reports First Confirmed H5N1 Patient
[12/16/2007]
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Set top		 Health Requirements and Recommendations for Travelers to Saudi Arabia during the Hajj
[12/4/2007]
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Set top		 US Funds Development of an Inhaled Form of Gentamicin
[11/15/2007]
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Set top		 WHO Updates Pandemic Flu Rapid Response and Containment Plan
[10/31/2007]
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Set top		 Beware of misidentification of Francisella tularensis as Actinobacillus or Hemophilus
[10/6/2007]
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Set top		 As with the Anthrax attacks of 2001 remember that skin lesions have occurred with aerosol-transmitted Tularemia
[10/4/2007]
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Set top		 Cutaneous Anthrax: Key References for Clinicians
[9/8/2007]
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Set top		 WHO Updates Clinical Advice on Human H5N1 Virus Infections
[8/23/2007]
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Set top		 FDA Clears First Rapid Diagnostic Test for Malaria
[7/17/2007]
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Set top		 Containment Zone WHO Strategy for Pandemic Flu Initial Emergence
[7/16/2007]
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Set top		 Indonesia reports 100th patient with H5N1 avian flu (80% mortality), asymptomatic infected chickens, and possible mutation facilitating poultry-to-human spread
[6/18/2007]
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Set top		 TB and Air Travel: WHO Guidelines and Recommendations
[6/6/2007]
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Set top		 WHO Factors to Consider in Launching a Pandemic Flu Containment Operation including Clustering of 5 or more Closely Related Cases or Two or More Generations of Transmission.
[5/30/2007]
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Set top		 WHO Updated Protocol for Rapid Operations to Contain Initial Emergence of Pandemic Flu Includes 20 Days (not 10) of Antiviral Prophylaxis
[5/25/2007]
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Set top		 Indonesia reports 15 new patients with H5N1 influenza over 3 months based on testing at National Laboratory in Jakarta
[5/21/2007]
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Set top		 Defense Department Issues N-95 Respirator Guidance – Including Reuse If Necessary, During A Time of Pandemic Flu
10 May 2007 [5/12/2007]
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Set top		 Yellow Fever: Ongoing Emergence in Africa and South America
[5/2/2007]
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Set top		 US FDA Approves Initial Human Vaccine against H5N1 (Clade 1) Avian Influenza Virus for the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS)
[4/21/2007]
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Set top		 WHO posts a 1996-2007 Update on H5N1 Influenza in Animals and Humans and Convenes a Conference on Clinical Aspects of H5N1
14 April 2007 [4/15/2007]
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Set top		 An overview of 3 parasitic infections: Chagas disease, schistosomiasis, and dracunculiasis
[4/12/2007]
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Set top		 World Health Day: International Health Security Theme
[4/7/2007]
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Set top		 Laos reports first patient H5N1 influenza infection while Egypt and China report their 23rd patient
[3/7/2007]
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Set top		 WHO Reports on 251 Persons with H5N1 Infection (2003-2006) and Confirms First Patient in Nigeria (2007)
[2/13/2007]
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Set top		 WHO H5N1 Flu Investigation Guidelines: 7 Days is the Patient’s Incubation Period Upper Limit, and -1 to +14 Days is the Time Frame for Contact Tracing
[2/1/2007]
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Set top		 3-Part CDC Plan to Deliver Antivirals, Masks and Respirators, and other Countermeasures after WHO Pandemic Flu Phase 4 is Declared
[1/23/2007]
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Set top		 Indonesia to Ban Poultry in Residential Areas as H5N1 Virus Surges in Asia and Africa
[1/20/2007]
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Set top		 US Funds Clinical Development of Peramivir, a Parenteral Neuraminidase Inhibitor Influenza Antiviral Drug
[1/5/2007]
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Set top		 International Avian Flu Conference in Mali Reports Success
[12/11/2006]
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Set top		 Report on H5N1 in Indonesia
[11/30/2006]
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Set top		 Tamiflu now produced in USA…are we safer?
[11/4/2006]
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Set top		 Risk Communication as a Pandemic Flu Countermeasure for the Business Community: More is Better
22 October 2006 [10/24/2006]
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Set top		 Additives or Not: The Anthrax Mailed in October 2001 Could Form an Aerosol and Could Reaerosolize
17 October 2006 [10/18/2006]
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Set top		 Indonesia reports 48th patient, and 39th death (81% fatality rate), due to H5N1 avian flu virus in 2006 including use of recent WHO case definitions of H5N1 infection.
25 September 2006 [9/26/2006]
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Set top		 WHO Recommends Indoor Spraying with DDT or other Insecticides to fight Malaria, in addition to Insecticide-Treated Mosquito Nets and Artemesinin Combination Therapies
15 September 2006 [9/15/2006]
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Set top		 “XDR-TB” (Extensive (Extreme) Drug Resistant-Tuberculosis): WHO describes as “Virtually Untreatable”
5 September 2006 [9/6/2006]
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Set top		 WHO: Three Clade 2 H5N1 Candidate Pre-Pandemic Vaccines Added to Current Clade 1 Vaccine
August 25, 2006 [8/25/2006]
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Set top		 H5N1 outbreak investigation begins in remote village of West Java, Indonesia
18 August 2006 [8/18/2006]
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Set top		 Domestic Cats in Iraq With H5N1 Clade 2 Avian Flu
31 July 2006 [8/3/2006]
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Set top		 Anthrax Antitoxin Antibody: Second Source to be Added to US Stockpile
29 July 2006 [8/1/2006]
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Set top		 Inhaled Zanamivir (Relenza) for Anti-Influenza Drug Stockpiling Available to 50 States, DC, and 8 other Jurisdictions at Subsidized Cost
27 July 2006 [7/27/2006]
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Set top		 US Pandemic Flu Stockpile Plans: “As Is” vs “To Be”
8 July 2006 [7/10/2006]
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Set top		 Indonesia Hosts Avian Flu Expert WHO Consultation: No Pandemic Virus Found In Single Family 8-Person Outbreak
26 June 2006 [6/26/2006]
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Set top		 Four criteria in the WHO decision to launch an influenza containment operation once a change occurs from Pandemic Alert Phase 3 to Phase 4
29 May 2006 [5/30/2006]
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Set top		 New highly active anti-malarial Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) protected by phase-out of marketing single-drug artemisinin malaria pills
14 May 2006 [5/15/2006]
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Set top		 H5N1 in the Horn of Africa: First human infection in Djibouti and new poultry infections in Sudan confirmed
12 May 2006 [5/13/2006]
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Set top		 Department of Defense (DOD) Health Care Actions and Expectations in the New US Pandemic Flu Plan
8 May 2006 [5/8/2006]
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Set top		 5 May 2006 “The center of gravity of the pandemic response, however, will be in communities”: The jewel in the lotus of the new US Pandemic Flu Plan, or a football team with no defensive line?
5 May 2006 [5/6/2006]
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Set top		 Will persons who recover from pandemic flu be immune (protected) from re-infection, and thus able to return to work even without vaccination or antiviral prophylaxis?
May 2, 2006 [5/3/2006]
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Set top		 Dengue Emerging Infectious Disease Update
April 20, 2006 [4/20/2006]
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Set top		 WHO Calculates Large Numbers of Masks Needed for Patients and Health Providers During a Flu Pandemic
11 April 2006 [4/11/2006]
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Set top		 Avian Flu Vaccine and Drug Preparedness 2006 Update
April 5, 2006 [4/5/2006]
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Set top		 US To buy 50 million N-95 Respirators as part of Updated Pandemic Flu Planning
30 March 2006 [4/2/2006]
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Set top		 Egypt Reports 5th Patient with H5N1 Infection and Hosts Two-Day Conference for Health Care Providers in Cairo
29 March 2006 [4/1/2006]
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Set top		 International Influenza Meetings: Summary Pages
March 28, 2006 [3/28/2006]
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Set top		 Dengue virus update
March 18, 2006 [3/18/2006]
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Set top		 International Dengue Outbreaks Continue in February 2006
15 March 2005 [3/15/2006]
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Set top		 Cameroon reports H5N1 near Nigerian border as WHO Director - General outlines steps to limit H5N1 spread in Africa
12 March 2006 [3/12/2006]
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Set top		 US Pandemic Plan Preparedness & Response Update
9 March 2006 [3/10/2006]
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Set top		 Pandemic Influenza Home Health Care Planning
6 March 2006 [3/9/2006]
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Set top		 WHO: New H5N1 prototype strain, A/Indonesia/5/2005, is available for pandemic vaccine development
3 March 2006 [3/6/2006]
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Set top		 H5N1 spreads, China warns of “massive outbreak,” and WHO expands website
27 February 2006 [2/27/2006]
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Set top		 Dengue Fever 2006: New Year, New Outbreaks
22 February 2006 [2/24/2006]
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Set top		 Recent Advances In Vaccine Development for the Treatment of Dengue
17 February 2006 [2/17/2006]
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Set top		 Feb 7th-14: Avian Flu outbreaks reported in Nigeria, Azerbeijan, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Austria, Germany and Iran. Is this how quickly human flu will spread when the next pandemic hits?
14 February 2006 [2/15/2006]
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Set top		 Dulling Occam’s Razor: The Challenge of Emerging Infectious Diseases When Applying the Single Explanation Principle in Public Health Policy
10 February 2006 [2/10/2006]
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Set top		 Japan-WHO Joint Meeting on Early Response to a Potential Influenza Pandemic
8 February 2006 [2/8/2006]
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Set top		 WHO Announces a 3rd Strategy to Address Pandemic Flu: Rapid Response and Containment Protocol and Training
28 January 2006 [1/30/2006]
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Set top		 WHO updates facts on H5N1 virus, including use of a 7-day incubation period for monitoring contacts, and consideration of 7-10 day therapy with oseltamivir (Tamiflu) for severe infection
23 January 2006 [1/24/2006]
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Set top		 Turkey reports 21st patient with H5N1 this month and WHO is creating regional stockpiles of oseltamivir (anti-H5N1 drug) for developing nations. Is Africa next?
18 January 2006 [1/18/2006]
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Set top		 2006 01 05 Turkey H5N1
H5N1 Turkey [1/18/2006]
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Set top		 FDA Approves Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) as Prevention against Influenza A and B for Children Over the Age of One (1) Year
22 December 2005 [12/26/2005]
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Set top		 2005 12 20 Adjuvant H5N1 Vaccine
[12/26/2005]
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Set top		 WHO: Review of Data on Influenza Virus Transmission
12 December 2005 [12/13/2005]
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Set top		 N-95 Respirator Protection against TB, SARS, or Flu: An Analogy to Automobile Seat Belts
30 November 2006 [12/8/2005]
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Set top		 Three types of Influenza Vaccines: (1) The Yearly Human Flu Vaccine, (2) The Avian Flu H5N1 Vaccine, and (3) A Future Pandemic Flu Vaccine
[11/28/2005]
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Set top		 New H5N1 Patients in China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand as Winter Nears
[11/27/2005]
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Set top		 WHO Reference Labs developing new experimental H5N1 vaccine prototype strains
[11/11/2005]
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Set top		 October 29: Africa and the Threat of Avian and Pandemic Flu: The US Should Act Now
[10/29/2005]
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Set top		 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
[10/21/2005]
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Set top		 Avian H5N1 Influenza Virus Confirmed in Europe Todayor “P5P” transmission
[10/13/2005]
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Set top		 October 4-8: The 100-Hour “Tipping Point” in US Pandemic Flu Awareness
[10/9/2005]
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Set top		 UN Director General appoints WHO Expert to Lead Avian Flu Efforts, New WHO paper on H5N1, and more cases in Indonesia
[9/29/2005]
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Set top		 Bird Flu closes Jakarta Zoo, H5N1 human case(s) confirmed
[9/20/2005]
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Set top		 US to stockpile second drug (zanamivir) to treat H5N1 influenza, add $100 million worth of H5N1 vaccine, and travel to SE Asia in October
[9/17/2005]
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Set top		 WHO issues new H5N1 pandemic flu recommendations for policy makers
[9/14/2005]
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Set top		 Children and H5N1: Ages, Fatalities, and Antiviral Limitations
August 30, 2005 [8/30/2005]
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Set top		 “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 [8/25/2005]
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Set top		 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 [8/24/2005]
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Set top		 H5N1 Flu Virus Confirmed in Russia; Is Mongolia Next?
August 8, 2005 [8/9/2005]
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Set top		 Outbreak in Sichuan: Is Strep Suis the only infection?
July 31, 2005 [8/4/2005]
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Set top		 H5N1: Hypercytokinemia and Hemophagocytosis
July 29, 2005 [7/29/2005]
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Set top		 H5N1 Lab Research at CDC: Important Science, Predictable Accusations
July 23, 2005 [7/25/2005]
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Set top		 Indonesia: H5N1 now in Humans in addition to Poultry and Pigs
July 22, 2005 [7/22/2005]
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Set top		 Public Use of Masks in Hong Kong during SARS 2003
June 29, 2005 [7/6/2005]
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Set top		 Thailand Avian Flu Newsletter
June 17, 2005 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 H5N1 Vaccines: Update
June 9, 2005 [6/9/2005]
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Set top		 Drainage of pleural fluid in patients with inhalational anthrax: a critical need to be anticipated as part of combination therapy
May 24, 2005 [5/24/2005]
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Set top		 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 [5/20/2005]
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Set top		 Cities Readiness Initiative expanding to 36 Cities: Mass distribution of (effective) antibiotics
May 14, 2005 [5/14/2005]
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Set top		 “Pacific Storm”: Tabletop Exercise for a Pandemic H5N1 Flu
May 9, 2005 [5/9/2005]
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Set top		 Oseltamivir, Influenza, and the Media
April 28, 2005 [4/28/2005]
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Set top		 Tularemia Flowchart
[10/3/2004]
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Set top		 Key Questions to Help Identify the First High-Risk Patients with Tularemia
[10/1/2004]
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[1/20/2006]
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Set top		 WHO: New Public Health advice from data on H5N1 flu virus in ducks
October 29, 2004 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 UK Smallpox Response Plan
October 14, 2004 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 Possible Case of Human-to-Human H5N1 Transmission: Thailand
September 29, 2004 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 Key updates (6) on avian influenza (bird flu)
January 27, 2004 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 The US Pandemic Influenza Plan: Just in Time?
August 31, 2004 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 Evolving H5N1 Influenza: Avian Epidemic to Human Pandemic?
July 6, 2004 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI): 8 Key Quotes
July 26, 2004 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 Anthrax Vaccine After Exposure to Aerosolized Anthrax Spores
September 14, 2004 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 2004 02 18 Interim Med Officer
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Set top		 Revised US Surveillance Case Definition for SARS, December 12, 2003
December 12, 2003 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 Outbreak Alert from Asia: Avian Influenza
January 27, 2004 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 A Milder-Than-SARS Illness Linked with the SARS-Coronavirus in Canada?
August 21, 2003 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 Ribavirin to Rimantidine? The Need for Clinical Trials for SARS Rx
June 25, 2003 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 ALERT:1st Monkeypox-like disease in USA
June 8, 2003 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 WHO global alert for atypical pneumonia spreading to medical persons
March 13, 2003 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 Unsubstantiated terror alert for US hospitals: anthrax or explosives
November 14, 2002 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 Anthrax-Specific Intravenous Hyperimmune Globulin
November 28, 2002 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 Welcome to BEPAST.org
September 26, 2000 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 September 2002 Updates on smallpox vaccine
October 7, 2002 [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 Surveillance And Management of SARS in the Emergency Department, WHC
June 3, 2003 Washington Hospital Center [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 Surveillance And Management of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)in the Emergency Department (05-26-03)
May 26, 2003 Washington Hospital Center [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 Surveillance And Management of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)in the Emergency Department (05-16-03)
May 16, 2003, Washington Health Center [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 Surveillance And Management of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)in the Emergency Department (04-05-03)
April 5, 2003, Washington Health Center [7/4/2005]
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Set top		 Surveillance And Management of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in the Emergency Department
March 25, 2003, Washington Hospital Center [7/4/2005]
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March 19, 2003, Washington Health Center [7/4/2005]
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April 13, 2005 [4/13/2005]
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March 31, 2005 [3/31/2005]
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March 30, 2005 [3/30/2005]
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March 28, 2005 [3/28/2005]
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March 17, 2005 [3/17/2005]
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February 14, 2005 [2/14/2005]
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February 8, 2005 [2/8/2005]
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January 24, 2005 [1/24/2005]
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January 14, 2005 [1/14/2005]
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Set top		 New H5N1 Deaths in Vietnam
January 11, 2005 [1/11/2005]
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January 3, 2005 [1/3/2005]
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December 13, 2004 [12/13/2004]
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