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| According to most experts, bird flu is coming. It's not a question of if, but when. In 1918 up to 50 million died in the Spanish Influenza outbreak; with increased global travel, this next pandemic could be even worse. The avian flu virus, H5N1, could kill millions upon millions if it mixes with a human strain of influenza. It poses more of a threat to global society than terrorism, natural disasters or economic collapse. Our governments are aware of the threat, but are radically unprepared to protect us. Beat the Flu shows you how to protect yourself and your loved ones from bird flu, as well as regular flu. Full of life-saving tips, from the best way to clean your home and where to purchase effective air filters, to how to get hold of antiviral medication before it runs out, Beat the Flu also explores what to do if society breaks down following a major pandemic. By the time H5N1 mutates into its final 'breakout' form there is a 95% probability it will be too late to develop a vaccine. This book is packed with advice to keep you healthy. |
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| The most probable and the greatest likely imminent threat to the United States and the rest of the world is a severe bird flu pandemic. There are an estimated four influenza (flu) pandemics each century. The last severe one was in 1918. This killed about five percent of the world's population. Five percent of today's U.S. population would be approximately fifteen million people (three hundred million of the world's pop.). Influenza mutates extremely rapidly even compared to other viruses. Influenza also can share genes with other strains of influenza. This makes it very possible or even probable that the deadly persistent bird flu (the H5N1 strain) currently sweeping the wild and domestic bird populations will eventually be able to be easily transmitted from human to human. Influenza has a history of being one of the most contagious of viral infections. The H5N1 strain of influenza is known to have infected 240 humans. Of these, 140 have died for a death rate of 58%. If it becomes easily contagious between humans, no one knows what the death rate will be. It could easily be very high. Modern medicine will not be capable of curing such an infection. This story is about a small group trying to survive in the social upheaval of a severe pandemic. I believe such chaos is possible. (Mike Stones MD) |
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| By the time authorities realize that Ana Bontierre has died from a lethal strain of the avian flu, she has already infected a dozen other residents of a quaint town in northern Wyoming. Investigators from the Centers for Disease Control are puzzled by the strange hand-drawn tattoo on her inner thigh. Within weeks, similar outbreaks occur in Hong Kong, Bangkok, and other metropolises, leading virologists from the CDC, World Health Organization and FBI on a wild goose chase. Eventually, they discover a pattern to the outbreaks. Dr. Jeffrey Plattenburg, a profiler for the FBI, believes that he is dealing with a serial killer who is purposefully infecting selected women with the deadly H5N1 strain of the avian flu. Other prominent doctors believe that the tattoos are a CDC cover-up to hide the fact that the genetic blueprint of the 1918 Spanish flu was stolen. As a global pandemic threatens the world, and thousands of victims lie dead, pharmaceutical companies scramble to mass-produce a flu vaccination. Dr. Plattenburg's search for the common denominator among the victims leads him back to Wyoming where the Bontierres' attorney, Mary MacIntosh, follows the clues the pandemic predator has planted and finds herself at the mercy of a madman with a desire to kill on a global scale. |
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Contents
Introduction
1. Pandemic Basics
2. 1918 versus 1976
3. The Swine Flu Timeline
4. All You Need to Know
Bibliography
Index
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| According to most experts, bird flu is coming. It's not a question of if, but when. In 1918 up to 50 million died in the Spanish Influenza outbreak; with increased global travel, this next pandemic could be even worse. The avian flu virus, H5N1, could kill millions upon millions if it mixes with a human strain of influenza. It poses more of a threat to global society than terrorism, natural disasters or economic collapse. Our governments are aware of the threat, but are radically unprepared to protect us. Beat the Flu shows you how to protect yourself and your loved ones from bird flu, as well as regular flu. Full of life-saving tips, from the best way to clean your home and where to purchase effective air filters, to how to get hold of antiviral medication before it runs out, Beat the Flu also explores what to do if society breaks down following a major pandemic. By the time H5N1 mutates into its final 'breakout' form there is a 95% probability it will be too late to develop a vaccine. This book is packed with advice to keep you healthy. |
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Drug discovery for influenza antivirals
Priorities for combating pandemic influenza include rapid detection and identification, the quick administration of available drugs to treat the infection, the development of new antivirals, and the development of vaccines. Since lead-time may be required to produce an effective vaccine, antivirals would serve as a key first line of defense in containing an outbreak. Diverse antivirals, acting through different mechanisms, would help stay the development of resistant viruses. Thus, drug discovery for influenza antivirals is an important public health-related endeavor.
With chapters contributed by leading international specialists, this guide gets readers up to speed on the latest advances and technologies in diverse approaches to drug discovery, covering:
Existing antivirals, including broadly effective anti-respiratory virus agents
The development of high-throughput screening assays
IFN resistance
The development of nucleic acid-based antiviral drugs
Antiviral RNAi strategies targeting influenza virus
Other promising antiviral drug discovery strategies
Combating the Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Drug Discovery Approaches consolidates the latest information on diverse approaches into one comprehensive resource. It is an invaluable, hands-on reference for researchers in medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, drug discovery, biochemistry, virology, microbiology, and public health. |
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| On September 15, 2012, a restaurant worker enters a hospital in China's Guangdong province complaining of flu symptoms. This single event ignites a conflagration of disease that burns its way around the world, leaving death, recession, revolution and war in its wake. In THE THIN WHITE LINE: A History of the 2012 Avian Flu Pandemic in Canada, Craig DiLouie presents a terrifying vision about how a pandemic might unfold, focusing on the Canadian experience but relevant to any country. Reading as if it were a non-fiction book describing a pandemic that has already happened, THE THIN WHITE combines a realistic, meticulously researched scenario with dramatic firsthand accounts of people who survived these tragic times. Global health officials have warned the world that a flu pandemic is an inevitable part of our future, just as it has been a frequent part of our past. In THE THIN WHITE LINE, our worst nightmare comes true. |
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Powerful and poignant - Cornel West, Princeton University
EVERY DAY in Africa, approximately 7,000 men, women, and children are erased from the face of this planet by the devastating AIDS virus that -- even after more than two and a half decades -- continues to wreak havoc around the globe, especially in underdeveloped nations.
No Place Left to Bury the Dead dares to go where media, governments, and ordinary individuals in the West seldom venture -- face-to-face with fellow humans suffering in the shadow of our collective ignorance and neglect.
In this haunting investigation, acclaimed journalist Nicole Itano goes beyond traditional journalistic methods as she eats, sleeps, and lives with the women who struggle daily with the raging epidemic of AIDS. Working from the personal accounts of a few real women living with the disease, Itano traces their moments of discovery and diagnosis, their first symptoms, and the ways they cope with treatment and manage the news with their families. Itano's masterful blend of the personal, scientific, and historical turns statistics into stories and balances tragedy with hope as she outlines the scope of new treatment and prevention.
In a time when celebrity and political heavy hitters such as Bono and Bill Clinton are rushing to find a remedy for Africa's increasing problem, No Place Left to Bury the Dead shows the world how the transformation of a few courageous women can heal entire communities and eradicate denial, and how books like these increase global awareness of one of the worst epidemics in human history. Like And the Band Played On and The Coming Plague, this book is a wake-up call that is urgently needed.
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From the book Introduction By the time I first stepped off the plane in Johannesburg in early 2001, at the beginning of what was to be a five-year stay there, a new sense of urgency had arisen over the issues of AIDS. In part, the country had finally awoken to the sheer magnitude of the crisis. By then, South Africa was home to an estimated five million HIV-positive people, more than any other nation in the world. But I suspected the real reason for the new energy was that, finally, it seemed something tangible could be done to halt the epidemic: treatment. Efforts to prevent the spread of the disease had always seemed depressingly ineffectual and immeasurable; for two decades infection rates had largely continued their upward momentum. Most Africans did not even know their HIV status, and for those who did know they were infected there were few treatment options available; most were simply sent home to die. Communities were staggering under the weight of the sick, dying, and orphaned. The epidemic seemed unstoppable. The five years that I spent living in South Africa and working there and in neighboring countries, however, was a period of enormous change and new optimism. Treatment that had seemed impossible in Africa just a few years before was becoming possible. A new grassroots activism arose around AIDS, new international money poured in, and treatment centers opened across the continent. In the jumble of new initatives, some projects were ill conceived, and there was much overlap and duplication. But for the first time in nearly two decades, progress was being made. This book tells the stories of three families and their communities during this period of enormous change, although I try to put their experiences into a broader context and to show how the epidemic unfolded in Africa. I spent more than a year -- between 2004 and 2006 -- visiting the three communities I've written about in this book, talking to ordinary people, community leaders, and activists. Much of the time I spent simply observing, and to a degree participating in, the daily life of the families who generously allowed me to chronicle their lives. I ate meals with them, helped wash their laundry and harvest their fields, and even occasionally slept at their houses. My goal was to try to paint a picture of how real people and real communities were dealing with the epidemic, not based on a single snapshot in time but over a period as they adjusted and dealt with the virus. The three families whose stories comprise the bulk of this book do not represent the most extreme or tragic cases. In many ways, the stories I have chosen to tell are quite ordinary. Some of the people on whom I've focused are even relatively prosperous or fortunate within the context of their communities. As you will see, however, all the families have been stricken not once, but many times by the epidemic. Often I discovered the other cases of HIV/AIDS only much later, after I had spent many months with the family. But increasingly, in the nations of Southern Africa particularly, few families remain unscathed. In these cultures where familial ties and responsibility include not just sisters and brothers, but cousins many generations removed, there are few people who have not lost some relative and many who have lost more than one. The main characters in this book are predominately women. In part this was out of necessity -- it is largely women who are willing to talk about the epidemic -- but it also reflects the fact that in Africa it is women who are bearing the brunt of the epidemic. They are caring for the sick and orphaned, and they are dying in larger numbers and at...
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The Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was the worst pandemic of modern times, claiming over 30 million lives around the globe in less than six months. In the hardest hit societies, everything else was put aside in a bid to cope with its ravages. It left millions orphaned and medical science desperate to find its cause. Despite the magnitude of its impact, few scholarly attempts have been made to examine this calamity in its many-sided complexity.
This book begins this process on a global, multidisciplinary scale, seeking to apply the insights of a wide range of social and medical sciences to an investigation of the pandemic. Topics covered include the historiography of the pandemic, its virology, the enormous demographic impact, the medical and governmental responses it elicited, and its long-term effects, particularly the recent attempts to identify the precise causative virus from specimens taken from flu victims in 1918, or victims buried in the Arctic permafrost at that time.
With a range of contributions that span the globe and an extensive bibliography of relevant works, this book will be essential reading for students and academics interested in the history and sociology of illness and medicine. |
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"... an amazing resource ... Dr. Ryan has assembled some of the best experts in the field to guide you in understanding the threat of pandemic influenza and how it can affect you and the people you are responsible for. ..." From the foreword by Lynn A. Slepski, Captain, United States Public Health Service No one is immune to the potential devastation of a mass pandemic influenza outbreak. Yet despite recent small-scale outbreaks and dire warnings from the World Health Organization that such an event is imminent and overdue, our preparedness continues to lag. Part of the problem is that while a national plan is important, all the real action must occur at the local level. Triage, care, and containment, along with maintenance of the infrastructure, are functions that must be carried out by local planners and responders. Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning and Community Preparedness introduces readers to the critical global and domestic issues regarding a potential pandemic. Featuring the contributions of leading experts, this volume arms planners and responders with an understanding of outbreak containment and response planning and provides an analysis of our present capabilities and potential weaknesses. The first section reviews the history of pandemics and discusses the deadly 1918 Spanish flu. The middle chapters examine the biology of the virus and the clinical aspects of influenza, with special attention given to Avian Influenza. The final chapters examine international and federal programs and discuss response at the local level, including service continuation planning and fatality management. Public health and emergency preparedness professionals, as well as policy makers at all levels will find a wealth of information to help them create a plan and allocate the proper resources to mitigate the devastation of a pandemic influenza. |
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| Klaus Stohr, coordinator of the global influenza program at the World Health Organization, has predicted that H5N1 (bird flu) has the capability to kill one-third of the world's population in a rapidly sweeping pandemic.
Although many companies have begun research on a vaccine, one is not expected for at least 12 months. This eBook describes in detail what measures a family can take now, in case a vaccine isn't forthcoming.
For example, there is only one filter mask in the world marketplace that will block and kill H5N1, and that mask isn't an N95. The eBook details exactly where the filter mask can be bought and why it's important.
This eBook also interviews the medical scientist who invented a daily supplement that will strengthen the human immune system by growing antibodies every day. This new supplement has already proven itself against H3N1, and the inventor believes it will be of great value against H5N1.
Sadly, many countries are unprepared for an H5N1 pandemic. Antivirals would help, but the supply is short. Even in the United States, there are only 4 million doses available of an antiviral that will reduce the effects of H5N1. This eBook describes the antiviral in detail and where it can be ordered without a prescripition.
Readers will learn the history of H5N1, what the U.S. government and other governments have done so far to prepare for the pandemic, and how to fight the virus once it arrives. |
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From Chapter One
Health ministers and senior officials from 10 Southeast Asian countries, along with China, Japan and South Korea attended a regional conference in Bangkok, November 2004. Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization, the European Union and other agencies also attended. And here’s what Thailand’s Director-general of the Department of Communicable Disease Control, Thawat Suntrajarn, said in an interview at that conference: “a prototype vaccine is expected by the beginning of 2005, then we'll have to do 2 years of clinical trials in humans. In 3 years, we'll have a safe and efficient bird flu vaccine" (Virus Weekly). That means sometime in 2007, we’ll have a vaccine against H5N1.
That leaves us with antivirals.
In a later section of this ebook titled “The Only Antiviral Available to Fight H5N1, you will discover what that antiviral is and hear directly from the company about the true quantity of doses available in the United States.
Meanwhile, scientists are working on a new human vaccine using the flu strain that killed people in Vietnam last winter. As noted, it is scheduled to go into prototype trials early in 2005. However, H5N1 is very good at mutating. There are currently 15 known subtypes of influenza. If the circulating H5N1 strain changes significantly, the new vaccine could be rendered useless.
Even if major labs had a vaccine formula this very minute, and started the vaccine manufacturing process immediately, it would take perhaps six to nine months, to produce a batch, according to officials at the World health Organization.
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In an SOA/web services world, excellent data quality is more crucial than ever: this book shows how to finally get it! - Offers practical solutions for assessing, improving, and sustaining data quality
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The story of the international influenza epidemic. |
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This eBook does not come wih a DVD There is a scientific consensus that the threat of a pandemic is real and serious. Public health watchdogs and the medical science community including the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, the executive branch of the federal government, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have concluded there is a growing and significant threat of a global pandemic. However, representatives from all of these organizations confess there is no way to predict either exactly when it might occur or the severity of the impact. As with any of the business continuity risks including natural disasters, accidents, and terrorism it is imperative that every business, agency, school, and organization be prepared for a pandemic public health emergency. During the coming pandemic, business continuity managers and disaster recovery employers will play a key role in protecting the health and safety of employees and ensuring the continuity of business operations as well as limiting the negative impact to the economy and society. Planning for pandemic influenza is critical. Companies that provide critical infrastructure services, such as power and telecommunication, also have a special responsibility to plan for continued operation in a crisis and should plan accordingly. As with any catastrophe, continuity, contingency, and disaster recovery planning is essential. This book has been created to help those who are charged with the preparation and planning process. Whether it is a school, university, not-for-profit agency, small business, medium-size company, or a major corporation, the process for pandemic preparedness planning starts in much the same way. You must learn about the threat risks, ask how your business would be affected, determine steps you can take to mitigate manage and recover from these events, and initiate the process of planning and preparation. Since neither of the authors is a medical health care expert nor a pandemic epidemiological scientist, we have drawn from a wide variety of public domain reference sources including materials available from the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, the executive branch of the federal government, including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. We believe that what we report is authoritative and based on the most reliable scientific and medical consensus. Our intention in this book is not so much to break new ground regarding the scientific or medical consensus regarding the coming pandemic, but rather we want to try to make this information more accessible to the business continuity and disaster recovery planning community and provide a template to help facilitate the pandemic preparedness planning process. We hope that this small book and accompanying DVD video interviews with a wide variety of subject matter experts are useful for those who need to jumpstart their planning process, persuade executives and managers of the urgency for this planning, or to help communicate with a complacent workforce to motivate them to become part of the solution for managing the coming pandemic. |
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Between August 1918 and March 1919 a flu pandemic spread across the globe and in just under a year 40 million people had died from the virus worldwide. This is the first book to provide a total history and seriously analyze the British experiences during that time. The book provides the most up-to-date tally of the pandemic's impact, including the vast mortality, as well as questioning the apparent origins of the pandemic. A 'total' history, this book ranges from the spread of the 1918-1919 pandemic, to the basic biology of influenza, and how epidemics and pandemics are possible, to consider the demographic, social, economic and political impacts of such a massive pandemic, including the cultural dimensions of naming, blame, metaphors, memory, the media, art and literature. An inter-disciplinary study, it stretches from history and geography through to medicine in order to convey the full magnitude of the first global medical 'disaster' of the twentieth century, and looks ahead to possible pandemics of the future. Niall Johnson brings an impressive scholarly eye on this fascinating and highly relevant topic making this essential reading for historians and those with an interest in British and medical history. |
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The AIDS Pandemic explores the ways in which HIV/AIDS has, and continues to transform the wide range of related disciplines it touches. Novel perspectives are provided by a unique panel of internationally recognised experts who cover the unprecedented impact onf AIDS on culture, demographics and politics around the world, including how it affected the worlds' economy, health sciences, epidemiology and public health. This important far- reaching analysis uses the lessons learned from a wide array of disciplines to help us understand the current status and evolution of the pandemic, as it continues to evolve. |
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