Influenza: from zoonosis to pandemic

Influenza: from zoonosis to pandemic

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Pandemic Influenza

Influenza viruses cause annual epidemics and occasional pandemics that have claimed the lives of millions. The emergence of novel strains continues to challenge the public health and scientific communities. Recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza A virus infections (including those of the H5N1 subtype) in poultry and in humans (through contact with infected birds), since 2003, hav...

Prediction and prevention of the next pandemic zoonosis.

Most pandemics--eg, HIV/AIDS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, pandemic influenza--originate in animals, are caused by viruses, and are driven to emerge by ecological, behavioural, or socioeconomic changes. Despite their substantial effects on global public health and growing understanding of the process by which they emerge, no pandemic has been predicted before infecting human beings. We re...

The Loss from Pandemic Influenza Risk

Pandemic influenza preparedness planning: lessons from Cambodia.

aCommunicable Disease Policy Research Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Bangkok, Thailand. bDepartment of Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. cSaw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Correspondence to Anthony C Huszar (e-mail: [email protected]) Introduction Experts have estimated that a pandemi...