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Measuring pandemic preparedness

The federal plan to vaccinate hospital health-care workers against a threat of smallpox fell short on several levels according to a new Temple University study. It raises troubling questions about future preparedness against possible outbreaks of avian flu or SARS.

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1. Drug resistance in an influenza pandemic
   01-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Stockpiling large amounts of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and related antiviral drugs with the intent to treat a large fraction of the population is a key part of pandemic preparedness of many countries. However, it is known that influenza viruses can develop resistance to these drugs. New research suggests that wide-spread use of antiviral drugs during a pandemic carries a substantial risk of resistance emerging and resistant influenza strains causing illness in a substantial number of people.
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2. Computer model maps efficient inoculation of hospital staff in pandemic outbreak
   05-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Community preparedness for a bioterrorism attack or influenza outbreak has been the focus of much interest and effort in recent years. Now, public health experts at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center have developed a strategy for how hospitals can most efficiently inoculate their own staff with minimal disruption to patient care.
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3. International pandemic influenza preparedness plans lack prioritization
   10-16-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Ben-Gurion University report that one-third of countries engaged in pandemic influenza planning have not prioritized who should get vaccinations and antiviral medications. Prioritization can play a significant role in international preparedness against pandemic influenza.
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4. Who should receive vaccines and antiviral drugs in the event of a flu pandemic?
   10-16-2006 · EurekAlert!
   A new study in PLoS Medicine finds that 30 percent of nations have prioritized neither vaccine nor drugs in their pandemic influenza preparedness plans.
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5. Stockpiling influenza vaccine in Hong Kong
   11-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
   In light of the importance of virus monitoring for pandemic influenza preparedness and response, Indonesia's refusal to share samples of avian flu virus with the WHO for most of 2007 is "distressing and potentially dangerous for global public health," say two leading global health experts in an essay in this week's PLoS Medicine.
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6. RAND panel identifies key components of public health emergency preparedness
   04-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
   A panel of experts convened by the RAND Corp., has recommended actions that communities around the United States should take to be better prepared to deal with bioterrorist attacks, pandemic flu outbreak and other large-scale public health emergencies.The recommendations announced today by RAND, a nonprofit research organization, consist of 16 actions listed under three broad categories.
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7. Swine flu monitoring needed for farm workers, study says
   02-11-2008 · EurekAlert!
   A University of Alberta study recommends that workers on pig farms be monitored as part of influenza pandemic preparedness.
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8. MIT Student Makes Dough -- In The Lab
   10-12-2006 · ScienceDaily
   Trevor Shen Kuan Ng rolls dough. He also stretches it like Silly Putty and twirls it like taffy. Ng, an MIT graduate student, is getting an education in dough. His Ph.D. thesis concerns the mechanical properties of matter -- in this case, dough -- and how it behaves when subjected to forces. The work provides valuable information for commercial bakeries that need accurate, repeatable techniques for measuring the properties of dough to ensure the tastiest product.
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9. AGU journal highlights -- December 19, 2006
   12-19-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Included in this issue: The 17 July 2006 Java earthquake/tsunami; New technique for early estimates of earthquake source and strength; Subsidence and southward displacement of southeast Louisiana through normal faults; Volcanic explosivity could be monitored by measuring ground deformation near vents; Source and consequences of large interplanetary shock near 79 AU from the Sun; Observations of dust storms help constrain radiation budgets; Changes in ocean dynamics may affect top predators; and How underwater ridges affect oceanic turbulence.
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10. Computer imaging assists with facial reconstructive surgery
    03-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
    A new calibration technique that involves measuring the distance between the upper ear and chin in photographs could help facial plastic surgeons use computer imaging software to achieve aesthetic harmony in their patients, according to a report in the March/April issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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