Orthopedic readiness for future pandemics

Predictions for future human influenza pandemics.

Will there be another human influenza pandemic? The certainty is that there will be, and the probability is that the virus will emerge from Eurasian aquatic bird reservoirs and involve reassortment between a human and avian strain, with accumulation of mutations or true recombinational events (or both) that will permit spread and pathogenicity among humans. This process will probably occur in p...

Suppliers Readiness for Future Challenges

It is not possible for any organization and/or nation to move alone in the global village and especially with rapid changes in technology and globalization of markets; it has become very difficult for organizations to “go it alone”. World-class companies, therefore, seek to enhance competitive performance by effectively linking them with the external operations of supply chain members. Future c...

Beyond Ebola: lessons to mitigate future pandemics.

Future Directions for the Organizational Readiness for Knowledge Translation (OR4KT) Tool: Response to Recent Commentaries

Investing in Immunity: Prepandemic Immunization to Combat Future Influenza Pandemics.

We are unlikely, with current technologies, to have sufficient pandemic influenza vaccine ready in time to impact the first wave of the next pandemic. Emerging data show that prior immunization with an immunologically distinct hemagglutinin of the same subtype offers the potential to "prime" recipients for rapid protection with a booster dose, years later, of a vaccine then manufactured to matc...