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Pandemic Influenza Response Plan Annex to the UNCW All Hazards Emergency Operations Plan
This plan establishes policies, procedures, and organizational structure for response, to pandemic flu or other infectious disease emergency that may cause a significant disruption of the functions of all or portions of the university. This plan describes, the roles and responsibilities of university departments and individuals in a, pandemic flu or other infectious disease emergency, and should be implemented, when there is a potential pandemic flu threat to the United States.
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
2006-10-01?
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Pandemic Influenza (U) [powerpoint]
This brief covers Pandemic Influenza, how it differs from Seasonal Flu, and how you can be prepared as an organization, individual units, family, and individuals. It also covers influenza vaccines, and the social consequences of pandemic influenza. Human Influenza Disease: occurs mostly during fall/winter in the United States; is spread by airborne droplets; viral shedding begins before symptoms start and may continue after symptoms begin the resolve; the symptoms are: fever, dry cough, aches and pains, malaise, and runny nose; symptoms may last 5-7 days in healthy individuals; and full recovery may be prolonged. Flu viruses change slightly each year and each year vaccines are developed to counter new strains. Vaccines are the single most effective way to protect yourself against: most common and worst strains, severe illness, and keeps it from being spread. Three conditions required for a pandemic to start: new virus is introduced to humans, virus changes to be easily passed from person to person, and people travel and move, carrying the virus. The social consequences are: agricultural impact, overwhelmed infrastructure, and global economic impact. National and international preparedness measures include: preparedness and communication, surveillance and detection, and response and containment.
North American Aerospace Defense Command; United States. Northern Command
2006-10
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Pandemic Influenza Plan
Indiana's Pandemic Influenza Plan provides guidance for state agencies and departments to counter the anticipated impact of a pandemic influenza outbreak.
Indiana. State Department of Health
Monroe, Judith A.
2006-10
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State of Florida Emergency Operations Plan: Pandemic Influenza Annex
"The goal of this plan is to minimize the morbidity and mortality related to a pandemic influenza event, and to align Florida preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation to national and international efforts. The annex outlines a series of activities designed to rapidly detect, investigate and implement interventions which, based on the best available science, maximize the use of available resources to minimize morbidity and mortality. Specific activities and interventions are set forth in the technical appendices to this annex. For planning purposes, and considering the World Health Organization Phases of Pandemic Alert, this annex and associated appendices anticipate possible stages of an influenza pandemic. There is no assurance, however, that a real event will follow a linear course through these stages. In a real event, decision-makers will determine when to transition from one stage-with its associated recommended responses-to another stage. The facts will not always be clear. There may be periods when the state, as a whole, is in more than one stage at the same time, or when different areas of the state are in different stages. Decision-making at the local, regional and state levels will have to be flexible, coordinated and take into account specific circumstances that are being experienced on an ongoing basis. This annex recommends some interventions that will be logistically difficult and/or expensive to implement. Certain interventions, such as mandatory travel restrictions or cordon sanitaire around entire communities, are not recommended because they seem infeasible under any foreseeable circumstance."
Florida. Department of Health
2006-10
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Centrally Funded Influenza Pandemic Response Materiel Guidance
"The Military Health System must be prepared to respond to an influenza pandemic. I believe it is prudent to purchase and store certain items of materiel at military medical treatment facilities (MTF) and selected intermediate storage sites. Consequently, approximately $7.9 million has been provided to the Services to allow MTFs to purchase and store five personal protection items to protect personnel who may have direct patient contact in the event of a pandemic. We have initiated a central purchase of approximately $24.5 million of antibiotics as recommended by the Services' infectious disease consultants for distribution to select MTFs and intermediate storage sites."
United States. Department of Defense
2006-09-29
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Washington State E911 Pandemic Preparedness Plan
"Avian flu threatens to evolve into a human flu that has the potential to reach pandemic. Calling 911 is the first step, and often is the only step, to seek help in any emergency be it a national crisis or someone seeking help for an individual problem. Loss of 911 services for any reason would be a crisis in itself. Loss of 911 services in the time of a national crisis would be a monumental disaster. Objective: Insure the health and stability of local 911 Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) and the 911 infrastructure prior to, during and after a pandemic. Goals: That all Washington State E911 PSAPs are staffed and operational through a pandemic period. [...]. The Washington State E911 Office of the Washington State Military Department will research and plan to make use of communications technologies with the goal to use these technologies to allow PSAPs to communicate with each other and to remotely answer and dispatch 911 calls for each other as the second phase of the Pandemic Preparedness planning effort."
Washington (State). Emergency Management Division
2006-09-29
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Infectious Disease Planning: Incorporating Pandemic Planning into School Crisis Plans
This presentation was given at a training conference hosted by the Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-free Schools in Santa Monica, California. It provides information about infectious diseases and pandemic influenza framed in the four phases of emergency management. It outlines the common steps schools can take to prepare for a pandemic influenza.
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (U.S.)
2006-09-26
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Exercise Silent Thunder
This document outlines the Yuma County Pandemic Flu Table Top Exercise titled Silent Thunder. The aim of Exercise Silent Thunder is to highlight the force structure needed to minimize the impact of a pandemic flu event in Yuma County in the event of a border surge scenario.
Yuma County (AZ) Department of Public Works
2006-09-26
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Pandemic Influenza Emergency Response: Ethics Guidance and Matrix Attachment 12
"After major homeland security and public health preparedness initiatives and directives began to come from the federal government, a number of New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) staff raised concerns about foreseeable issues such as terrorism incidents, disease pandemics, and natural disasters which could place pressure on staff's ability to make effective, ethical decisions. This Attachment was developed to address these concerns. This Attachment provides guidance to NMDOH personnel who directly or indirectly participate in the ethics-based decision making process during health emergencies. The following guidance encourages participating staff to examine ethical issues raised during the deliberation process prior to determining a course of action. This guidance takes two forms. First, there is a common language and frame of reference for decision-making participants. Each major ethical principle is clearly identified and explained. Second, specific questions and application steps provide a path to reaching a decision or recommendation."
New Mexico. Department of Public Health
2006-09-18
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Pandemic Influenza: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery - Guide for Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources
"The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Guide is one of the practical tools DHS has developed for business owner-operators and their contingency planners to enhance pandemic planning. This guide assembles the primary government and pandemic influenza-specific background material, references, and contacts all in one place. It introduces an enhanced contingency planning process for a pandemic and provides business planners with numerous sector-specific and common pandemic influenza planning variables keyed to escalating disaster phases. This Guide will complement and enhance, not replace, extensive private sector contingency planning already in place. The primary purpose of this Guide is to stimulate the U.S. private sector business community to act now. With this Guide, DHS hopes to assist our nation's 17 CI/KR sectors, and business and industry in general, with the actions they should be taking to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a localized outbreak, as well as the broader pandemic. This Guide urges private sector business planners to expand upon their traditional notions of continuity of operations, as a pandemic promises to test the limits of their current contingency plans."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
2006-09-16
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Local Jurisdiction Service Continuation Planning Guide (Pandemic Influenza)
"The State of Minnesota explored incorporating pandemic planning into current Continuity of Operations plans. It was determined that pandemic planning presents unique differences from current Continuity of Operations templates. Instead of loss of physical structures, we are faced with reduction of workforce and significant human health concerns in the workplace environment. Due to these particular circumstances, the State of Minnesota developed the concept of 'Service Continuation.' This document describes this approach."
Minnesota. Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
2006-09-14
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Media Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Checklist
"This checklist provides guidance for editors and publishers in developing and improving influenza pandemic response and preparation plans."
District of Columbia. Health Department
2006-09-14
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2006 San Francisco Pandemic Influenza Infection Control Tabletop Exercise: After Action Report
This document summarizes the findings of the 2006 San Francisco Pandemic Influenza Infection Control Tabletop Exercise that included representatives of public health and major local hospitals. It presents a summary of the exercise scenario and key lessons learned.
San Francisco (Calif.). Department of Public Health
2006-09-14?
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Strategic National Stockpile: Safe Shelter Contingency Planning for Point of Dispensing Sites
"Jurisdictions' point of dispensing (POD) site annexes to their Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Plan should consider including a contingency plan that details a safe shelter for people who receive medication. This contingency plan can address a means for maintaining order by moving people receiving medication inside or by providing shelter outside of the POD site. The plan should ensure that the people receiving medication who are sheltered outdoors are protected from rain, heat, and cold."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2006-09-08?
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Strategic National Stockpile Dispensing: Planning for Populations with Special Needs at Point of Dispensing Sites
"Point of dispensing (POD) site staff should develop a plan that identifies specific requirements and procedures for processing individuals who use wheelchairs and individuals with mobility or dexterity limitations."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2006-09-08?
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California Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Plan
"This plan is an annex to the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) Public Health Emergency Response Plan and Procedures. CDHS will carry out the response activities described in this plan in collaboration with the Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA), the California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHSA), the Governors Office of Emergency Services (OES), other state agencies, and local health departments (LHDs). This CDHS Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Plan outlines key assumptions for pandemic planning and response, summarizes relevant legal and statutory authorities, explains the CDHS emergency management organization and defines a concept of operations for pandemic influenza response. Appendices describe essential functions for conducting surveillance, case investigation, and treatment; preventing spread of the disease in the community; maintaining essential services; and other actions prior to, during, and after a pandemic. Although the term 'pandemic' can refer to any disease outbreak that becomes a worldwide epidemic, this plan uses the terms 'pandemic influenza' and 'pandemic' interchangeably."
California. Department of Public Health
2006-09-08
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Pandemic Influenza: Preparedness and Response Plan (2006)
"The California Department of Health Services (CDHS) Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Plan: Outlines key assumptions for statewide pandemic planning and response; summarizes the legal and statutory authorities regarding public health; explains the CDHS emergency management organization; defines the CDHS concept of operations for pandemic influenza response; and Lists actions CDHS will undertake in preparing and responding to an influenza pandemic. The plan outlines the roles and strategies of CDHS in coordinating the public health response to a pandemic with local health departments, the healthcare community, the federal government, and other key partners."
California. Department of Health Services
2006-09-08
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Pandemic Influenza - Phase 4 and 5: Infection Control Recommendations Template
"These recommendations are intended for implementation when WHO [World Health Organization] has declared Phase 4 and/or 5 where there is a novel influenza virus circulating causing disease in humans, the disease spreads locally with small or large clusters, and there is evidence of limited or localized human to human transmission, but it has not yet spread to many parts of the world and a vaccine against this strain is not yet available. The objective is to contain or delay the spread before it becomes widespread. The duration of phase 4 and 5 are unknown, it may be as short as 1 day or as long as 1 month or more."
San Francisco (Calif.). Department of Public Health
2006-09-07
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Pandemic Influenza - Phase 6: Infection Control Recommendations Template
"These recommendations are intended for implementation when WHO [World Health Organization] has declared Pandemic Influenza Phase 6 where there is evidence of increased and sustained human to human transmission and a vaccine against this strain is not yet available. The objective is to maintain continuity of operations as much as possible."
San Francisco (Calif.). Department of Public Health
2006-09-07
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Implementing the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
This powerpoint presentation by Francis Schmitz is an exercise scenario concerning control of pandemic influenza. This was presented at the 2006 Technologies for Critical Incident Preparedness Conference and Exposition.
United States. Department of Justice
Schmitz, Francis
2006-09-06
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Securing Our Nation: Pandemic Preparedness and Response
This powerpoint presentation by Ellen Embrey is an introduction to presentations on preparedness and response for pandemic influenza. This was presented at the 2006 Technologies for Critical Incident Preparedness Conference and Exposition.
United States. Department of Defense
Embrey, Ellen
2006-09-06
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Avian and Pandemic Flu: The Delaware Experience [presentation]
This powerpoint presentation by David Mitchell is a presentation on preparedness and response for pandemic influenza in the state of Delaware. This was presented at the 2006 Technologies for Critical Incident Preparedness Conference and Exposition.
Delaware
Mitchell, David B.
2006-09-06
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White Paper: Morgue Operations, Identification, and Command and Control of Mass Fatalities resulting from a Pandemic Influenza Event in the United States
The purpose of this paper, written at the behest of the U.S. Northern Command's Joint Task Force Civil Support (JTF-CS), is to identify the predominant issues regarding command and control of mass fatalities, morgue operations, and body identification during a PI [pandemic influenza] event and provide senior leaders actionable recommendations to managing this most daunting task.
Joint Task Force Civil Support
2006-09-01?
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White Paper: Funeral Services and Final Disposition of Mass Fatalities Resulting From a Pandemic Influenza in the United States
This white paper is the result of the Fatality Management Pandemic Influenza Working Group Conference sponsored by U.S. Northern Command in March of 2006. Issues regarding mass fatalities due to Pandemic Influenza are identified and examined, and the need for a mass fatality management plan is noted.
Joint Task Force Civil Support
2006-09
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Pandemic Influenza: Not Your Ordinary Flu
This is a special pandemic flu edition of King County's newsletter Health Matters. It provides a general overview of basic facts on bird flu and pandemic flu, and describes ways that individuals and families can prepare for a flu or protect themselves from the flu in the case of an outbreak. LLIS Core Capability: Community Preparedness
Public Health Seattle & King County
2006-09-01?
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Louisiana: Statewide Draft Pandemic Influenza Plan
"The purpose of this plan is to provide a guide for the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Office of Public Health (DHH-OPH) in collaboration with other federal, state and local agencies on the detection and response to pandemic influenza in Louisiana. This plan establishes the framework and guidelines for ensuring that an effective system of health and medically related emergency management is in place to contain adverse outcomes associated with an influenza pandemic. Because the response to pandemic influenza will use much, if not all, of the same infrastructure as needed for response to bioterrorism events, this guide highlights areas that are specific to pandemic influenza and may require the specific additional consideration of disease and laboratory surveillance, emergency management, delivery, distribution and use of vaccine and antiviral drugs, and communication activities. The Louisiana Pandemic Influenza Plan shall be integrated as an annex to the LA Department of Health and Hospitals Emergency Operations Plan - Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Incident Plan. All state and local governments are required to have an emergency management plan which addresses all hazards. However, pandemic influenza is likely to pose unique challenges that may not be addressed in current emergency management plans. Because of the many unique challenges that will arise, emergency management plans should incorporate the pandemic influenza plan as an appendix to the existing plan."
Louisiana. Department of Health and Hospitals. Office of Public Health
2006-09
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Global Pandemic Influenza Action Plan to Increase Vaccine Supply
"The objective of the Global Vaccine Action Plan is to increase the supply of a pandemic vaccine and thereby reduce the gap between the potential vaccine demand and supply anticipated during an influenza pandemic. In response to the challenges involved in developing a Global Vaccine Action Plan for Pandemic Influenza Vaccines, WHO organized a consultation in Geneva on 2-3 May 2006 and invited key stakeholders - from national immunization programmes, national regulatory authorities, vaccine manufacturers and the research community - to participate. The objective of the consultation was to identify and prioritize practical solutions for reducing the anticipated gaps in vaccine supply. The participants drew up an Action Plan with strategies for the short, mid and long term, aiming to increase influenza vaccine production and surge capacity before and during an influenza pandemic. They identified three main approaches: a) an increase in seasonal vaccine use; b) an increase in production capacity; and c) further research and development. The implementation of this plan will require the concerted efforts of countries, industry and the global health community."
World Health Organization
2006-09
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Fairfax County Pandemic Flu Preparedness: Fairfax County Pandemic Influenza Response Plan
This document describes the Fairfax county adopted plan for pandemic Influenza prepared and response plans. The plan is divided into six sections; introduction, authorities and legislation, planning context, communications, pandemic influenza response and recovery and continuation of critical government services. The first three sections address the various flu concerns, pandemic seasonal avian flu and how each of these are different and responded to differently. Sections 4 and 5 address communications, both among the coordinating agencies and message dissemination. Section 6 addresses continuation of government functions during a pandemic and partnerships with non-governmental entities.
Fairfax County (Va.)
2006-09
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Louisiana Statewide Draft Pandemic Influenza Plan
The goal of the Louisiana Draft Statewide Pandemic Influenza Plan is to help regional and local jurisdictions as well as healthcare facilities plan to mount an effective response to pandemic influenza. The information and guidance contained in the state-level draft, combined with the planning templates and checklists can be used as planning resources for regional and local communities, healthcare entities, businesses, and essential community partners.
Louisiana. Department of Health and Hospitals. Office of Public Health
2006-09
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Pandemic Influenza: A Planning Guide for Washington State Agencies
"All Washington state agencies must plan for the impact of pandemic influenza on their staff, clients and the performance of their respective agency's mission. This is of paramount importance for those state agencies which provide essential public services that must continue during any emergency event. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) Pandemic Influenza Planning Guide for Washington State Agencies was developed by DOH to assist other state agencies in their respective pandemic influenza planning efforts. During an actual event, health information about the specific outbreak will be made available by DOH. […] Pandemic influenza will not be like a natural or other type of physical disaster. Understanding the characteristics of pandemic flu and the differences between seasonal flu and avian flu will help with planning and educating staff. As a communicable disease emergency, pandemic influenza would have unique characteristics rather than those commonly associated with a 'typical' disaster. The impact of a pandemic would likely be widespread, possibly nation wide, not localized to a single area or region. Therefore, there may be little outside assistance to the state from other states or the federal government. A pandemic is not a physical disaster. It presents unique characteristics that require implementation of activities to limit human to human contact such as restriction of movement, quarantine, and closure of public gatherings."
Washington (State). Department of Health
2006-09
