Modelling study suggests pandemic influenza could be controlled at source

Containing Pandemic Influenza at the Source: Supporting Online Material

Editorial: Could Speciation Across Evolution be Governed by Genetic Switch Codes at Short Tandem Repeats?

Influenza pandemic preparedness in France: modelling the impact of interventions.

BACKGROUND Influenza pandemics result in excess mortality and social disruption. To assist health authorities update the French pandemic plan, the authors estimated the number of health events (cases, hospitalisations, and deaths) in a pandemic and compared interventions in terms of impact and efficiency. METHOD A Monte Carlo simulation model, incorporating probability distributions of key va...

Pandemic influenza planning: shouldn't swine and poultry workers be included?

Recent research has demonstrated that swine and poultry professionals, especially those who work in large confinement facilities, are at markedly increased risk of zoonotic influenza virus infections. In serving as a bridging population for influenza virus spread between animals and man, these workers may introduce zoonotic influenza virus into their homes and communities as well as expose dome...

[What can be learned from the management of pandemic influenza?].

Daniel Tarantola, editor asociado de la revista de la Asociación Americana de Salud Pública, escribı́a hace unos meses que fuera cual fuera la evolución de la pandemia provocarı́a vı́ctimas. Naturalmente, de cumplirse las previsiones, serı́an los afectados por el virus con su morbimortalidad y la repercusión económica y social consecuente. Pero se cumplieran o no, también lo serı́an quienes no hubie...