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Hong Kong officials meet to discuss human influenza A H7N9 cases
Tweet Representatives from Hong Kong’s Department of Health and Hospital Authority met on Tuesday to discuss recent confirmed human cases of influenza A H7N9 and plan enhanced surveillance and control measures for the virus. Leung Ting-hung, the controller for the … Read More »
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New models to predict pandemic flu
Tweet Researchers from the University of California Los Angeles are creating new means to predict where a major new influenza outbreak is likely to emerge. Experts fear of what would happen in the event of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza … Read More »
Report: U.S. Schools not ready for next pandemic
Tweet A new report reveals that U.S. schools are not prepared for outbreaks of disease. The study was led by Terri Rebmann, an associate professor at SLU’s Institute for Biosecurity. The study surveyed approximately 2000 nurses in elementary through high … Read More »
Study: Many schools in U.S. unprepared for next pandemic
Tweet Saint Louis University researchers found in a recent study that less than half of U.S. schools mention pandemic preparedness in their school plan and just 40 percent have changed their plan since the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. The study, published … Read More »
UT researchers develop pandemic toolkit
TweetResearchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a web-based toolkit to simulate the spread of disease through the state of Texas that will forecast the number of flu hospitalizations. Lauren Ancel Meyers, an infectious disease epidemiology expert … Read More »
London 2012 Olympics puts U.K. at heightened risk for pandemic
TweetNew research suggests that England faces an increased risk of a flu pandemic because of the millions of tourists expected to arrive in London for the 2012 Olympics. A 200 country-study conducted by risk analysts at Maplecroft ranked the U.K. … Read More »
U.S. lab deployed to Mexico for disease outbreak surveillance
TweetA U.S.-built advanced mobile biocontainment laboratory has been deployed to the Mexican state of Tabasco to provide the country with biosurveillance for disease outbreaks. The lab is the first of its kind in Latin American and will provide new early … Read More »
Smartphones shown to boost disease surveillance capabilities
TweetThe development of smartphone technology has the potential to boost the disease surveillance capability of developing countries. Researchers in Kenya found that using smartphones to gather disease information could be cheaper than traditional paper surveys, minus the initial setup costs. … Read More »