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SEMP Biot #461: What is the WHO's 'Global Public Health Security' Initiative?
"The global health situation has changed dramatically since 1951 when the World Health Organization (WHO) issued its first set of regulations to prevent the international spread of six 'quarantinable' diseases--cholera, plague, relapsing fever, smallpox, typhus and yellow fever. New diseases in 1951 emerged only rarely, and antibiotics and vaccines helped reduce the heavy infectious disease load born by humanity for millennia. Most people travelled internationally by ship, and important news travelled by telegram."
Suburban Emergency Management Project (U.S.)
2007-10-01
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SEMP Biot #302: Emergency Departments and Epidemics: The 2003 Toronto SARS Experience
This document addresses the medical unfolding of the SARS [Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome] epidemic in Toronto in 2003. The health epidemic disaster highly stressed the medical and public health systems, exposing hidden weaknesses, which were related to medical, economic and political practices. LLIS Core Capability: 2003: SARS Outbreak
Suburban Emergency Management Project (U.S.)
2005-11-27
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'Please Remain in Your Seat': The Federal Government's Role in Quarantine
"State health departments or health officials typically have primary quarantine authority. However, the federal government has jurisdiction over foreign and interstate quarantine. Quarantine is the 'the restriction of movement of a healthy person who has been exposed to a communicable disease in order to prevent contact with unexposed persons,' according to a definition favored by an attorney writing for Congressional Research Service. Quarantine is 'separation and restriction of movement of well persons presumed to have been exposed to contagion, according to a definition favored by a Centers for Disease Control quarantine public health officer, who hastens to add that quarantine 'may occur at home or residential facility, and may be voluntary or mandatory.'"
Suburban Emergency Management Project (U.S.)
2006-02-26
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SEMP Biot #334: 'Please Remain in Your Seat': The Federal Government's Role in Quarantine
"State health departments or health officials typically have primary quarantine authority. However, the federal government has jurisdiction over foreign and interstate quarantine. Quarantine is the 'the restriction of movement of a healthy person who has been exposed to a communicable disease in order to prevent contact with unexposed persons,' according to a definition favored by an attorney writing for Congressional Research Service. Quarantine is 'separation and restriction of movement of well persons presumed to have been exposed to contagion, according to a definition favored by a Centers for Disease Control quarantine public health officer, who hastens to add that quarantine 'may occur at home or residential facility, and may be voluntary or mandatory.'"
Suburban Emergency Management Project (U.S.)
2006-02-26
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SEMP Biot #410: Tamiflu Alert! 36 Million Americans Owned Tamiflu in October 2006
"Of America's 300 million residents, about 36 million (12%) owned a supply of Tamiflu (oseltamivir), or similar antiviral drug, according to an October 2006 survey conducted by Robert Blendon, et al, Harvard School of Public Health. Tamiflu, a prescription drug, can reduce the duration of viral replication and improve prospects for survival, provided it is administered within 48 hours following symptom onset, according to the World Health Organization. Tamiflu should be an essential plan of any plan to control pandemic flu, according to the WHO and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This new information about the surprising prevalence of Tamiflu in American homes adds fuel to the ongoing debate as to whether the government or the private sector is better qualified to supply essential public services, such as provision of Tamiflu, for management of a potential or actual flu epidemic or pandemic."
Suburban Emergency Management Project (U.S.)
2006-11-01
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H7N7 Dutch Avian Flu Outbreak (2003) Associated with Human Conjunctivitis and Fatal Case of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Exposed Veterinarian Who Did Not Take Tamiflu or Receive Vaccination
"At about the same time the SARS novel virus outbreak was swirling in Canada and the Far East (March-June 2003), a highly lethal disease subsequently identified as avian influenza virus subtype H7N7 was devastating commercial chicken flocks on (initially) six farms in Gelderland Province, the Netherlands, an area with a high density of poultry farms. Eventually the infection spread to 255 farms, and on March 1, 2003 the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture announced a ban on the export of all poultry and poultry-related products. In addition, the Ministry ordered the culling of all infected flocks, which led to the killing of around 30 million chickens-about 28% of the total chicken population in the Netherlands. The human population in the Netherlands is 16 million people."
Suburban Emergency Management Project (U.S.)
2006-04-02
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SEMP Biot #679: What Did the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic Response Accomplish?
"As the 2009 swine flu consternation slowly fades into history, barring a third wave, some alert observers from a variety of countries and cultures are beginning to ask questions, such as what did pandemic preparedness and response accomplish? Who benefited from the efforts? Who did not? How much did the efforts cost? Were the preparedness and response activities a good value? How good? Why? For whom? What trends characterize the health management of anthrax bioterrorism, SARS, avian flu, and novel swine flu outbreaks in the decade 2001-2010? In these four outbreaks, were preparedness and response activities based on reliable and valid data and information? Is anyone studying preparedness and response processes and outcomes for these four outbreaks as a group?"
Suburban Emergency Management Project (U.S.)
2010-01-13
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