Testing the Efficacy of Homemade Masks: Would They Protect in an Influenza Pandemic?

Pandemic influenza--how would you and your hospital cope?

A review of medical masks and respirators for use during an influenza pandemic

during an influenza pandemic Holly Seale, Dominic E. Dwyer, Benjamin J. Cowling, Quanyi Wang, Peng Yang, C. Raina MacIntyre School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia, Institute for Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia, Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, The Uni...

Modelling community-control strategies to protect hospital resources during an influenza pandemic in Ottawa, Canada

BACKGROUND A novel influenza virus has emerged to produce a global pandemic four times in the past one hundred years, resulting in millions of infections, hospitalizations and deaths. There is substantial uncertainty about when, where and how the next influenza pandemic will occur. METHODS We developed a novel mathematical model to chart the evolution of an influenza pandemic. We estimate the...

an investigation of the types of text reduction in subtitling: a case study of the persian film gilaneh with english subtitles

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The Global Costs Influenza Pandemic of an

18 The Milken Institute Review The deaths of 187 people in 12 countries through May 2007 from Type A (H5N1) avian infl uenza has raised fears that bird fl u could trigger the next infl uenza pandemic – perhaps even one on the scale of the Spanish fl u that swept the world in 1918. While we are in some ways better prepared to deal with a public-health emergency on this scale than we were a centu...