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a pandemic virus at this time. There have been no human cases
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GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES
World Health Organization
Influenza Pandemic Threat: Current Situation
Current
Phase in the WHO Global Influenza Preparedness Plan
Vaccine
Research and Development: Current Status
Recommendations to Travellers
Avian
Influenza FAQs
Human
Cases of Avian Influenza
Situation
updates: Avian Influenza
Avian Influenza: Food Safety Issues
Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response
Global Influenza Programme
Pandemic Preparedness
Antiviral Drugs: Their Role During a Pandemic
World Organisation for Animal Health
Update on Avian Influenza in Animals (H5)
Avian Influenza Prevention and Control
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Animal Health: Avian Influenza
Public Health Agency
of Canada
Avian
Influenza
Current
Avian influenza (H5N1) affected areas
Canadian
Pandemic Influenza Plan
Latest information for travellers
Health Canada
Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)
Avian Influenza and Poultry
It's Your Health: Avian Influenza
Global Pandemic Influenza Readiness
Canadian Food Inspection Agency: Avian Flu
Avian Influenza Fact Sheet
Avian Influenza: Virus Subtypes
Avian Influenza: Routes of Transmission
Preventing Avian Influenza Spread on Your
Premises
U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
Avian Flu
Avian
Influenza Viruses
How
Avian Influenzas Spread Among Birds
How
Avian Influenzas are Transmitted to Humans
Avian
Influenza Infections in Humans
Avian
Influenza Outbreaks in North America
Avian Influenza Outbreaks in Asia and Europe
Embargo of Birds from Specified Southeast Asian
Countries
Influenza
Pandemics
Avian Influenza Vaccines
U.S. Government
PandemicFlu.gov
National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
H5N1 Avian Flu Vaccine
Trials
Influenza Research
Preparing for a Pandemic
Toxic Traces: What Made the 1918 Influenza
Virus So Deadly?
Timeline
of Human Flu Pandemics
U.S. Department of Health and Public Services
Pandemic Planning and Response Activities
European
Union: Influenza
Avian Influenza
Avian Influenza: Questions and Answers
European Centre for Disease
Prevention and Control
United
Kingdom: Health Protection Agency
Influenza Pandemic Contingency Plan
DOCUMENTS [PDF]
H5N1
Avian Influenza Timeline
(from the World Health Organization)
Global
Influenza Preparedness Plan
(from the World Health Organization)
Checklist
for Influenza Preparedness Preparedness Planning
(from the World Health Organization)
H5N1
Avian Influenza Outbreaks in Poultry and Humans: Food Safety Implications
(from the World Health Organization)
Information about Influenza Pandemics
(from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Global
Strategy for the Progressive Control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
(from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
Human
Health Issues related to Domestic Avian Influenza Outbreaks
(from the Public
Health Agency of Canada)
Canadian Pandemic Influenza Plan
(from the Public
Health Agency of Canada)
Table of Contents
Preface
Section One: Introduction
Section Two: Background
Section Three: Preparedness
Section Four: Response
Annex A: Glossary of Terms
Annex B: Pandemic Influenza Planning
Considerations in First Nations Communities (June 2005)
Annex C: Canadian Pandemic Influenza Plan: Laboratory
Procedures
Annex D: Recommendations for
Pandemic Vaccine Use in a Limited Supply Situation
Annex E: Planning Recommendations for the Use of Antivirals
(Anti-Influenza Drugs) in Canada During a Pandemic
Annex F: Infection Control and
Occupational Health Guidelines During Pandemic Influenza In Traditional
and Non-Traditional Health Care Settings
Annex G: Clinical Care Guidelines
and Tools
Annex H: Resource Management Guidelines for Health Care
Facilities During an Influenza Pandemic
Annex I: Guidelines for the Management of Mass Fatalities
During an Influenza Pandemic
Annex J: Guidelines for Non-Traditional Sites and Workers
Annex K: Communications Annex
Annex L: Federal Emergency Planning
Documents
International
influenza pandemic plans
(from the World Health Organization)
RESEARCH
Avian
Influenza A (H5N1) Infection in Humans
New England Journal of Medicine 2005 Sep;353:1374-1385.
Potential
Impact of Antiviral Drug Use during Influenza Pandemic
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2005 Sep;11(9):1355-1362.
Strategies for containing an emerging influenza
pandemic in Southeast Asia
Nature 2005 Sep;437(7056):209-14.
Cost-Benefit
of Stockpiling Drugs for Influenza Pandemic
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2005 Aug;11(8):1280-1282.
Containing Pandemic Influenza at the Source
Science 2005 Aug;309(5737):1083-1087.
Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Influenza Virus Infection in Migratory
Birds
Science 2005 Aug;309(5738):1206.
Role of domestic ducks in the propagation and biological evolution
of highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza viruses in Asia
PNAS 2005 Jul;102(30):10682-10687.
Avian flu: H5N1 virus outbreak in migratory waterfowl
Nature 2005 Jul;436: 191-192.
Human infection by avian influenza A H5N1
Hong Kong Medical Journal 2005 Jun;11(3):189-99
Transmissibility of 1918 pandemic influenza
Nature 2004 Dec;432:904-906.
The Structure and Receptor Binding Properties of the 1918 Influenza
Hemagglutinin
Science Express 2004 Mar;303(5665):1838-1842.
Influenza
Pandemic Preparedness
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2003 Dec;9(12):1645-1648.
1918
Influenza Pandemic Caused by Highly Conserved Viruses with Two Receptor-Binding
Variants
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2003 Oct;9(10):1249-1253.
Initial Genetic Characterization
of the 1918 "Spanish" Influenza Virus
Science 1997;275: 1793-96.
FURTHER READING
The Great Influenza: The
Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
John M. Barry
Spanish
Flu Epidemic
Library and Archives Canada
The Silent
Enemy: Canada and the Deadly Flu of 1918
Eileen Pettigrew, 1983
Influenza 1918:
The Worst Epidemic in American History
Lynette Iezzoni, 1999
Flu: The Story of the
Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus
that Caused it
Gina Kolata, 1999
The 1918-1919
Pandemic of Influenza: The Urban Impact in the Western World
Fred R. van Hartesveldt, 1993
The Plague
of the Spanish Lady
Richard Collier, 1974
Dr.
Fred and the Spanish Lady: Fighting the Killer Flu
Betty O'Keefe and Ian MacDonald, 2004
Catching
Cold: The Hunt For A Killer Virus
Pete Davies, 1999
FROM CBC.ca
Avian
Flu
Avian Flu: Timeline
Avian Flu: What you can do
Avian Flu: Vaccines
Avian Flu: Antiviral drugs
Avian Flu: Impact on Canada's poultry industry
The Flu
1918 Flu Epidemic
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