Eliminating Injustice Toward Disadvantaged Populations During an Influenza Pandemic

Nonpharmaceutical Interventions for Military Populations During Pandemic Influenza.

Influenza causes substantial illness and loss of work days among young adults, and outbreaks can affect the preparedness of military units. In an influenza pandemic, people who live in confined settings have greater risk of infection. Military trainees are at particularly high risk. Because of likely unavailability of vaccines and antiviral drugs at the start of a pandemic and for many months t...

Monitoring vaccine safety during an influenza pandemic.

In the event that a vaccine is available during an influenza pandemic, vaccine safety monitoring will occur as part of comprehensive public health surveillance of the vaccination campaign. Though inactivated influenza vaccines have been widely used in the United States and much is known about their safety profile, attention will need to be paid to both common self-limited adverse reactions and ...

Resource Allocation during an Influenza Pandemic

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Pandemic flu. Clinical management of patients with an influenza-like illness during an influenza pandemic.

Challenges for the laboratory before and during an influenza pandemic.

Laboratory tests that reliably confirm infection with a novel influenza strain are a major component of pandemic planning. Combined nose and throat swabs are the most practical respiratory tract sample to safely obtain from patients. As nucleic acid tests are sensitive, specific and rapid, they will be the diagnostic test of choice during a pandemic. Virus isolation (in laboratories with Physic...