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H5N1 avian influenza: timeline of major events
This timeline details reported cases of bird flu in both animals and people from the first recording of the virus in China's Guangdong Province in 1996 onwards. The document also highlights milestones in bird flu research, such as the October 2005 finding that the deadly 1918 pandemic virus...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: April 2007 | EN
WHO influenza pandemic risk assessment and preparedness in Africa
This risk assessment for Africa, published last year, covers influenza outbreaks in poultry and their significance for human health, human cases of H5N1, vaccine research and development, the role of antivirals during a pandemic, World Health Organization (WHO) support for pandemic preparedness in...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2005 | EN
Avian influenza A (H5N1) infection in humans
This paper in the New England Journal of Medicine summarises key information about how the H5N1 virus infects people and reviews recommendations for preventing infections and managing healthcare if they occur. It covers ways that H5N1 can be transmitted to people, the clinical symptoms it causes,...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: September 2005 | EN
Avian influenza control and eradication — FAO's proposal for a global programme
This document presents the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) assessment of what needs to be done to control the current outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus, with a focus on poultry. The four main components it outlines are the need to improve global and regional coordination, to provide...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: January 2006 | EN
WHO pandemic influenza draft protocol for rapid response and containment
This document outlines the World Health Organization's (WHO) plans for reacting to the emergence of a human flu pandemic. The protocol has three main parts. The first describes how to recognise the emergence of a pandemic flu virus. The second describes actions that should immediately follow this....
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: March 2006 | EN
WHO pandemic preparedness plan
This document is an update to an influenza pandemic plan released in 1999 by the World Health Organization (WHO), and is intended to help WHO member states to respond to the threat and occurrence of pandemic influenza. It addresses the possibility of a flu virus with pandemic potential -- such as...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: November 2005 | EN
CDC Q&A on bird flu
This set of questions and answers, prepared by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), focuses on the threat that bird flu poses to public health. It also covers the spread of avian influenza in birds and other animals. The questions cover symptoms of infected birds and humans, and...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2006 | EN
CDC bird flu factsheet
This fact sheet was prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is part of the US government's Department of Health and Human Services. It gives some good background information about flu viruses and virus subtypes, putting the H5N1 virus strain into context. It also...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: February 2006 | EN
WHO avian influenza factsheet
Compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO) media centre, this fact sheet provides an overview of avian influenza in birds and humans. It explains why H5N1 is of particular concern, how it affects birds, and the role that migratory fowl play in spreading the disease, before focusing on the...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: February 2006 | EN
