As the traditional winter flu season peaks, pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) activity in the USA remains at low ebb. Overall flu activity has remained below baseline for the last six weeks. Currently, pH1N1 is circulating at elevated (above baseline) levels in pockets of the southeastern and western regions of the country. Recent CDC estimates indicate [...]
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- March 7, 2010 – 3:11 pm
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Thus far, H1N1 has exhibited moderate pathogenicity while proving efficient at transmission and replication. H5N1 by contrast is highly pathogenic, but has not evidenced capacity for sustained human-to-human transmission. This has been the human experience. It stands to reason, we would expect to see similar results when H1N1 is tested (in vivo) in other mammals.
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- March 2, 2010 – 7:41 am
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Background on Chile Earthquake
USGS: Magnitude 8.8 – OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
AMEMBASSY Santiago: Statement on February 27 Earthquake in Chile
NOAA: Tsunami Warnings and Advisories
PAHO: EOC Situation Report #3 – Damage and power shortages force suspension of H1N1 vaccinations
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- February 27, 2010 – 12:47 pm
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The Associated Press relays the following report from London that concerns World Health Organization (WHO) deliberations on transitioning from the peak phase of the H1N1 pandemic (i.e. Level 6), which has lasted nine months.
According to the AP report, WHO’s “emergency committee met Tuesday and suggested it was “premature” to recommend downgrading the global flu outbreak. [...]
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- February 23, 2010 – 8:57 pm
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A US Food and Drug Administration vaccines panel voted to follow World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations to include pandemic H1N1 in the seasonal flu vaccine for 2010-2011. A/California/7/2009 (the pandemic strain) will replace A/Brisbane/59/2007 for the H1N1 component of the trivalent (three-strain) influenza vaccine. FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee also voted to [...]
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- February 23, 2010 – 12:56 am
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This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Committee will advise on transition to a “post-peak” phase for the H1N1 pandemic. The current pandemic alert level is at Level 6.
The committee ruled out a “post-pandemic” phase because, in its view, H1N1 is not yet behaving like normal seasonal infuenza, and that future waves of H1N1 [...]
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- February 22, 2010 – 12:47 am
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In its Weekly Epidemiological Report (WER), the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed a worldwide count of 225 cases of H1N1 that were resistant to oseltamivir (Tamiflu). The “225 cases came from 20 countries and included 65 cases in the Americas, 77 in Europe, 1 in Africa, and 82 in the Western Pacific region. [...]
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- February 10, 2010 – 2:29 am
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Credibility and transparency are essential to building trust in public health communications. During unfolding public health crises, the problem of what and when to warn is an enduring policy dilemma that goes to the heart of public trust.
Last week the World Health Organization (WHO) persuasively refuted spurious claims from the Council of Europe that H1N1 [...]
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- February 2, 2010 – 3:06 am
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Cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) are surging in Egypt. Last year Egypt recorded 39 human cases of H5N1, a vast jump over eight cases in 2008. Four new cases were reported this month, bringing the country’s case count to 94. Of these, 27 have been fatal. These numbers position Egypt just behind Indonesia [...]
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- January 29, 2010 – 3:24 am
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In the comparatively short lifespans of Influenza Monitor and counterpart blog Market@Flu-Monitor, one of the more striking outcomes as revealed through Google Analytics has been relatively high visitation rankings from countries as diverse as Ukraine, Egypt and India. All of these countries have experienced public health pressures coping with either H1N1 or H5N1.
Google [...]
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- January 27, 2010 – 12:22 pm
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