Introduction Colleges and universities have been engaged in pandemic planning since 2005 when the threat of H5N1 was brought to the attention of health care providers and organizations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization. Schools developed plans, based on a 1918 scenario, that were centered on evacuation of campus, managing severe disease wi...

On April 21, 2009, the "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" Dispatch was entitled "Swine Influenza A (H1N1) Infection in 2 Children-Southern California, March to April 2009".[1,2] This marked the beginning of a long awaited influenza pandemic. Within days, there were reports of widespread influenza with high mortality in young adults in Mexico. These cases were subsequently confirmed to be d...

545 A 51-year-old Caucasian man with a history of acute myeloid leukemia, W.H. is three years removed from an unrelated donor allogeneic stem cell transplantation. W.H. has a significant medication history of post-transplantation antibiotic usage, macrolide immunosuppressant (tacrolimus), steroids, and immunoglobulin G1k monoclonal antibody (infliximab) for chronic graft-versus-host disease (GV...

Soon after identification of novel influenza A (H1N1) virus infections in the United States in mid-April 2009, CDC provided interim recommendations to reduce the risk for transmission in health-care settings. These included recommendations on use of personal protective equipment (PPE), management of health-care personnel (HCP) after unprotected exposures, and instruction of ill HCP not to repor...