Transnational Quarantine Rhetorics: Public Mobilization in SARS and in H1N1 Flu

Transnational Issues in Quarantine

Transnational Issues in Quarantine How to promote transnational collaboration in implementing quarantine was the topic of a January 19–23, 2004, conference sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Fifty invited participants discussed the status of quarantine planning in 13 countries (the Americas, Israel, and several members of the European Union [EU] nations). Held in the the conferen...

Public health law and ethics: lessons from SARS and quarantine.

Quarantine for SARS, Taiwan

During the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Taiwan, >150,000 persons were quarantined, 24 of whom were later found to have laboratory-confirmed SARS-coronavirus (SARS-CoV) infection. Since no evidence exists that SARS-CoV is infective before the onset of symptoms and the quarantined persons were exposed but not symptomatic, we thought the quarantine's effectiveness s...

the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran

acknowledge the importance of e-commerce to their countries and to survival of their businesses and in creating and encouraging an atmosphere for the wide adoption and success of e-commerce in the long term. the investment for implementing e-commerce in the public sector is one of the areas which is focused in government‘s action plan for cross-disciplinary it development and e-readiness in go...

Source Identification in H1N1 Flu Infection

Background. H1N1 is a worldwide epidemic, and targeting early stage of human proteins involved will be effective in treatments due to high mutability of H1N1. Aim. We aim to identify source proteins in H1N1 infection. Data. Human protein-gene network containing protein-protein, post-transnational modification and protein-DNA interactions forms a weighed directed graph given transmission time of...