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Flu pandemic in prison: A model for public health preparedness
May 05, 2009 |
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When pandemics occur, correctional facilities are not immune. With more than 9 million people incarcerated across the globe 2.25 million in U.S. jails and prisons alone it is vital that correctional officials and health professionals ...
How WHO measures a pandemic
Apr 28, 2009 |
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The World Health Organization has six phases of pandemic alert to assess the potential for a new global flu outbreak.
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1 in 6 public health workers unlikely to respond in pandemic flu emergency
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Approximately 1 in 6 public health workers said they would not report to work during a pandemic flu emergency regardless of its severity, according to a survey led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public ...
European businesses not properly advised on how to prepare for flu pandemic
Jun 11, 2008 |
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A new report entitled Business Continuity Planning and Pandemic Influenza in Europe, published by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), has found huge gaps and differences across Europe in the level of ...
Study: Containment can't stop flu pandemic
Feb 21, 2006 |
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Scientists say they've concluded containment might buy time, but is not enough to stop a flu pandemic.
Stanford Hospital does nation’s first drive-through pandemic exercise
Jun 13, 2009 |
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A couple of months ago, during the swine flu scare, Stanford Hospital & Clinics had a preview of what a real pandemic might look like: Hundreds of people, fearing they might be sick with the H1N1 virus, showed ...
Pandemic flu: Most nursing homes don't have a plan
Jul 22, 2008 |
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If an influenza pandemic hits the United States, acute care hospitals are likely to be overwhelmed. Nursing homes may then be expected to assist with the patient overflow, but a new study in the Journal of the American Me ...
Pneumococcal vaccine could prevent numerous deaths, save costs during a flu pandemic, model predicts
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 28, 2008 |
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A new predictive model shows that vaccinating infants with 7 valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7)--the current recommendation--not only saves lives and money during a normal flu season by preventing related bacterial ...
Many U.S. states not ready for pandemic
May 24, 2006 |
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Despite U.S. stockpiles of drugs and respirators, public health officials say many states are still not fully prepared to handle a flu pandemic.
Rethinking who should be considered 'essential' during a pandemic flu outbreak
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Not only are doctors, nurses, and firefighters essential during a severe pandemic influenza outbreak. So, too, are truck drivers, communications personnel, and utility workers. That's the conclusion of a Johns Hopkins University ...
States flu pandemic plans are conflicted
Aug 29, 2006 |
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Researchers say state plans for a U.S. flu pandemic are being hampered by lack of direction from federal officials and a dearth of scientific information.
Nations say they are ready for swine flu pandemic
Jun 12, 2009 |
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Nations around the world said they were ready to combat the spread of the swine flu virus Friday, urging people not to panic after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic.
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