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The content of those sections is based on the presentations and the discussions that took place during the workshop. Institute of Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

Through invited presentations and discussions among participants, the workshop informed the Forum, the public, and policy makers of the likelihood of an influenza pandemic and explored issues critical to the preparation and protection of the global community.

Chapter: 1 The Story of Influenza. Throughout history, there have been influenza pandemics, some of which may have rivaled 1918’s lethality. A partial listing of particularly violent outbreaks likely to have been influenza include one in 1510 when a pandemic believed to come from Africa attacked at once and raged all over Europe not missing a family and scarce a person (Beveridge, 1977).

Workshop Summary (2005) Board on Global Health (BGH). Find More Like This Book. 315-372 Appendix A: Pandemic Influenza: Assessing Capabilities for. pp. 373-380 Appendix B: Selected Bibliography, pp. 381-387 Appendix C: The Critical Path to New Medical Products, pp. 388-389 Appendix D: Forum Members, Speakers, and Staff Biographies, pp. 390-412. Go to page: Table of contents.

102 THE THREAT OF PANDEMIC INFLUENZA Although this hypothesis has been cited many times over the years, it has never been subject to rigorous reexamination. Moreover, an old analysis of regional urban .

An influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the human . A, Mahmoud A, Lemon S title The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready?

An influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the human population. In contrast to the regular seasonal epidemics of influenza, these pandemics occur irregularly, with the 1918 Spanish flu the most serious pandemic in recent history. A, Mahmoud A, Lemon S title The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready?

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Background The 2009/2010 pandemic influenza highlighted the need for valid and timely incidence data. In 2007 we started the development of a passive surveillance scheme based on passive follow-up of representative general population cohorts.