The Role of SAIs in Preparing for and Responding to an Influenza Pandemic

International Journal of Government Auditing;  January 1, 2007 ;   Ragland, Susan;   787 words ...An influenza pandemic is a real and...prepare for an influenza pandemic by drawing on...scale of an influenza pandemic will depend...tools that the United States will need to...recover from an influenza pandemic. This strategy...to help the United ...

Influenza Pandemic: Challenges in Preparedness and Response.

General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony;  August 1, 2005 ;     497 words ......medium-level influenza pandemic could kill up...people in the United States, affect from...billion in the United States. GAO was asked...threat of an influenza pandemic, including the...shortage in the United States for the 2004...respond to an ...

Influenza Pandemic: Applying Lessons Learned from the 2004-05 Influenza...

General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony;  January 1, 2006 ;     554 words ......seasons or during an influenza pandemic--a global influenza...extent of a future influenza pandemic cannot be predicted...effect in the United States could be severe...including an influenza pandemic. This statement...influenza season or an ...

U.S. 'woefully unprepared for an influenza pandemic'.(LIFE)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  November 7, 2005 ;     408 words ......there is no question that the world, including the United States, will battle a serious killer strain of the flu...it could be in 10 years, he says. In 10 years, the United States probably could stop the disease from spreading. But...have historically been woefully unprepared for an ...

CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON INFLUENZA PANDEMIC PREPARATION

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 24, 2006 ;     671 words ......reported in the United States or Canada. The...1918 Spanish influenza pandemic. During the...died in the United States as a result...deaths in the United States. Death...1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic we can better...

Influenza Pandemic: Federal Agencies Should Continue to Assist States to...

General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony;  August 1, 2008 ;     728 words ......Pandemic Influenza states that in an influenza pandemic, the primary response will come from...Security (DHS) established five federal influenza pandemic regions to work with states to coordinate...and localities are planning for an influenza pandemic and who they involved, (2) ...

GLOBAL EXPLANATIONS VERSUS LOCAL INTERPRETATIONS: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF...

History In Africa;  January 1, 2006 ;   Heaton, Matthew; Falola, Toyin;   787 words ...I In 1918 an influenza pandemic of unprecedented virulence...despite the fact that the influenza pandemic has few historical rivals...the historical work on the influenza pandemic has sought to prove that it...

Our highly mobile society could complicate the next influenza pandemic...

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  January 31, 2000 ;   Rackl, Lorilyn;   787 words ...Most influenza experts will tell you the question isn't Will we have another influenza pandemic? The question is When? And that begs an even...pneumonia, a potentially fatal complication of influenza. But medicine isn't the only thing that's...epidemiologist at Baylor College of Medicine's ...

Possible avian influenza pandemic: doctors calmly prepare.(Infectious...

Pediatric News;  November 1, 2005 ;   Worcester, Sharon;   754 words ...Warnings of a potential avian influenza pandemic have the nation and medical community on...patients are vaccinated against conventional influenza strains, said Donald M. Poretz, M.D., vice...vaccination will address the immediate concern of influenza outbreaks in the United States and, ...

The U.S. Office of Health and Human Services Estimates that, Without...

M2 Presswire;  March 23, 2006 ;     721 words ......Intervention, an Influenza Pandemic could Cause the Deaths...Million People in the United States and Require the Hospitalization...possibility of an influenza pandemic. The U.S. Office...million people in the United States and require the hospitalization...possibility ...

Influenza Pandemic: Further Efforts Are Needed to Ensure Clearer Federal...

General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony;  January 1, 2008 ;     704 words ...GAO-07-781 August 14, 2007 An influenza pandemic is a real and significant potential threat facing the United States and the world. Pandemics occur when a novel virus emerges that can easily be transmitted among humans who have little immunity. In 2005, the Homeland Security Council (HSC) issued a ...

GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER CONVENES SUMMIT TO PREPARE FOR INFLUENZA PANDEMIC

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 30, 2006 ;     717 words ......state's preparedness for a possible influenza pandemic and outline steps the state will...possible. Planning for a potential influenza pandemic is being coordinated across multiple...proposed the following to prepare for influenza pandemic: $27.6 million to strengthen state...

Iomai Awarded Government Contract, Totaling $128 Million, to Develop...

PR Newswire;  January 17, 2007 ;     787 words ......for use with a pandemic influenza vaccine. If the product...conjunction with an injectable influenza vaccine, is designed to...supply in the event of an influenza pandemic. We believe our novel immune-boosti...injectable vaccines for pandemic influenza could play a critical role...component ...

Medical expert warns of influenza pandemic.(Main News)

Manila Bulletin;  October 9, 2002 ;     372 words ......Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, said a flu pandemic was first documented in 1580 and again...vaccination on their people as a preparation against the influenza pandemic. Influenza is far more serious than the common cold, he...

Modeling Hospital Response to Mild and Severe Influenza Pandemic Scenarios...

Military Medicine;  May 1, 2007 ;   Sobieraj, Josef A; Reyes, Joel; Dunemn, Kathleen N; Carty, Irvin H; Et al;   787 words ......1968-type and severe 1918-type influenza pandemics. Model predictions...facility. For a severe influenza pandemic, model predictions showed...developing plans for the next influenza pandemic. Introduction Epidemics...Experts predict that another influenza pandemic is highly ...