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Avian influenza

Influenza

• WHO global influenza preparedness plan.The role of WHO and recommendations for national measures before and during pandemics
• WHO checklist for influenza pandemic preparedness planning
• Vaccines for pandemic influenza. Informal meeting of WHO, influenza vaccine manufacturers, national licensing afencies, and government representatives on influenza pandemic vaccines. Summary report. Geneva, Switzerland 11-12 November 2004.
• Informal consultation on influenza pandemic preparedness in countries with limited resources
• WHO consultation on priority public health interventions before and during an influenza pandemic.
• WHO guidelines on the use of vaccines and antivirals during influenza pandemics.
• Production of pilot lots of inactivated influenza vaccines from reassortants derived from avian influenza viruses. Interim biosafety risk assessment
• Influenza: Report by the WHO Secretariat, World Health Assembly - May 2003
• Influenza: Prevention and control of influenza pandemics and annual epidemics Resolution, World Health Assembly - May 2003
• Influenza pandemic preparedness plan. The role of WHO and guidelines for national and regional planning
• Requirements for influenza vaccine (inactivated)(revised 1990), TRS WHO 814

:: Articles

• WHO position paper: influenza vaccines, Weekly Epidemiological Record.Vol. 80, 33, 2005
• Production of pilot lots of inactivated influenza vaccine in response to a pandemic threat: an interim biosafety risk assessment, Weekly Epidemiological Record.Vol. 78, 47, 2003
• Recommendations for influenza vaccine composition
• Influenza—WHO cares. Reflection & Reaction. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, September 2002
• WHO Global Influenza Programme: survey on capacities of national influenza centres, January-June 2002, Weekly Epidemiological Record.Vol. 77, 42, 2002
• WHO position paper: influenza vaccines, Weekly Epidemiological Record.Vol. 77, 31, 2002
• Recommendations for the use of inactivated influenza vaccines and other preventive measures, Weekly Epidemiological Record. Vol. 75, 35, 2000

:: Links

• Disease Outbreak News: influenza

:: Fact sheets

• Influenza

:: Press releases

• Donation of three million treatments of oseltamivir to WHO will help early response to an emerging influenza pandemic, News release, 24 August 2005
  
• WHO statement on modelling papers published in Science and Nature, 4 August 2005
  
• Amid SARS concerns, WHO urges influenza vaccinations for high-risk groups, 2 September 2003
  
• One case of “bird flu” confirmed in Hong Kong – investigation ongoing, 19 February 2003
  

:: Bibliography

• Influenza Bibliography (from National Institute of Medical Research, United Kingdom)