Influenza Roundup
Fri Oct 09 14:14:09 CDT 2009
Good afternoon. The long-anticipated first shipments of H1N1 vaccine have begun arriving, as cases multiply and news and research mount. Listed below are new resources added to the CIDRAP site on the various aspects of influenza in the past 2 weeks.
NOVEL H1N1 PANDEMIC FLU
Resource List
Updated Oct 9 with 14 new items ReadCIDRAParticle…
Hospitalized patients with 2009 H1N1 influenza in the United States, April-June 2009
From N Engl J Med, published online Oct 8 Visit link…
Pandemic preparedness in the workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act
Document from US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, posted Oct 5 Visit link…
H1N1 Swine Flu Response Center
Decision tree for patients from Microsoft, launched Oct 7 Visit link…
Healthcare providers and facilities: decision tree for 2009 H1N1 vaccination
From CDC, published Oct 5 Visit link…
Initial psychological responses to influenza A, H1N1 (‘swine flu’)
From BMC Infect Dis, published online Oct 6 Visit link…
Update on influenza A (H1N1) 2009 monovalent vaccines
From Oct 9 MMWR Visit link…
Surgical mask vs N95 respirator for preventing influenza among health care workers: a randomized trial
From JAMA, published online Oct 1 Visit link…
Respiratory protection against influenza
JAMA editorial on above article, published online Oct 1 Visit link…
Rethinking influenza
From Oct 2 Science Visit link…
Public willingness to take a vaccine or drug under emergency use authorization during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic
From Biosecur Bioterror, published online Sep 23 Visit link…
2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine and pregnant women: information for healthcare providers
From CDC, published Oct 2 Visit link…
Antiviral drugs for treatment of patients with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus
Letter from Emerg Infect Dis, published online Oct 2 Visit link…
H1N1 challenges ahead
Report from Trust for America’s Health released Oct 1 Visit link…
Novel H1N1 influenza and respiratory protection for health care workers
Perspective from N Engl J Med, published online Sep 30 Visit link…
H1N1 clinicians questions and answers
From CDC, updated Oct 6 Visit link…
How to maintain surveillance for novel influenza A H1N1 when there are too many cases to count
From Oct 3 Lancet Visit link…
Partial protection of seasonal trivalent inactivated vaccine against novel pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009: case-control study in Mexico City
From BMJ, published online Oct 6 Visit link…
Critical care services and 2009 H1N1 influenza in Australia and New Zealand
From N Engl J Med, published online Oct 8 Visit link…
Bacterial coinfections in lung tissue specimens from fatal cases of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1)–United States, May-August 2009
From MMWR, published online Sep 29 Visit link…
GENERAL PANDEMIC FLU
Closing the schools: lessons from the 1918-19 U.S. influenza pandemic
From Health Affairs, published online Sep 29 Visit link…
Small islands and pandemic influenza: Potential benefits and limitations of travel volume reduction as a border control measure
From Sep 29 BMC Infect Dis Visit link…
Salicylates and pandemic influenza mortality, 1918-1919: pharmacology, pathology, and historic evidence
From Clin Infect Dis, published online Sep 29 Visit link…
Evidenced-based tool for triggering school closures during influenza outbreaks, Japan
From Emerg Infect Dis, published online Oct 2 Visit link…
Excess deaths and immunoprotection during 1918-1920 influenza pandemic, Taiwan
From Emerg Infect Dis, published online Sep 29 Visit link…
SEASONAL FLU
Interim recommendations for clinical use of influenza diagnostic tests during the 2009-10 influenza season
From CDC, published Sep 29 Visit link…
Influenza vaccination coverage among children aged 16 months – 18 years–eight immunization information system sentinel sites, United States, 2008-2009 influenza season
From Oct 2 MMWR Visit link…
Influenza vaccination coverage among children and adults–United States, 2008-09 influenza season
From Oct 9 MMWR Visit link…
Influenza vaccination coverage among children aged 6-23 months–United States, 2007-2008 influenza season
From Oct 2 MMWR Visit link…
Review of an influenza surveillance system, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
From Emerg Infect Dis, published online Sep 29 Visit link…
AVIAN (H5N1) FLU
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of expanded antiviral prophylaxis and adjuvanted vaccination strategies for an influenza A (H5N1) pandemic
From Ann Intern Med, published online Oct 6 Visit link…
Molecular epidemiology of clade 1 influenza A viruses (H5N1), southern Indochina Peninsula, 2004-2007
From Emerg Infect Dis, published online Sep 29 Visit link…
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