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Influenza : a century of science and public health response / by Dehner, George

Subjects: “…Influenza Prevention.…”
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Global view of the fight against influenza

Subjects: “…Influenza Prevention.…”
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Introduction to pandemic influenza

Subjects: “…Influenza Epidemiology.…”
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Influenza virus pandemics past and future /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Influenza virus, the agent and the disease -- Epidemiology in humans and animals -- The 1918 pandemic & reconstruction of the virus -- Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus -- Future influenza pandemics -- Antiviral drugs against influenza -- Influenza virus vaccine formulations (types & usage frequency).…”
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Controlling pandemic flu

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The power of infection -- Three levels of protection -- The influenza virus -- The influenza vaccine -- Anti-viral drugs -- The three faces of hygiene -- 2009 swine flu outbreak -- Flu pandemics -- years of life lost -- Bird flu -- The common cold clinic -- influenza research in Retroscreen virology -- Influenza virus components -- The 1918 flu pandemic -- Researching the new virus on the front -- What's needed for an influenza virus to emerge? …”
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The threat of pandemic influenza are we ready? : workshop summary /

Table of Contents: “…The story of influenza -- Today's pandemic threat : H5N1 influenza -- Toward preparedness : opportunities and obstacles -- Strategies for controlling avian influenza in birds and mammals -- Emerging technical tools -- Beyond the biomedical response.…”
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Preparing for an influenza pandemic personal protective equipment for healthcare workers /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction --- Understanding the risk of influenza to healthcare workers --- Designing and engineering effective PPE --- Using PPE: individual and institutional issues --- Certifying and regulating healthcare PPE: defining an integrated system --- Moving forward with urgency.…”
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The making of an influenza pandemic

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Classification, structure and nomenclature -- The history of influenza -- The history of human pandemics and recent pandemic threats -- Pandemic versus seasonal influenza -- Antigen recycling -- Relation between animal and human influenza -- Antigen shift -- Modes of pandemic emergence -- Characteristics of human pandemics -- Summary -- Further reading.…”
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Responding to pandemic influenza

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Healthcare and societal impacts of a pandemic -- Pandemic preparedness -- Surveillance and monitoring of a pandemic -- Public health countermeasures -- Antiviral drugs (influenza) -- Pandemic influenza vaccines -- Healthcare capacity and capability -- Pandemic communications -- Bioethical issues -- Training and exercising.…”
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Review of the DoD-GEIS influenza programs strengthening global surveillance and response /

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Understanding statistics in epidemics and pandemics lessons learned from COVID-19 /

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Advances in disease epidemiology

Table of Contents: “…An avian influenza model and its fit to human avian influenza cases / Joseph Lucchetti, Manojit Roy and Maia Martcheva -- Gender differences in heterosexual transmission of HIV in urban and rural populations / Bernhard P. …”
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Plagues & poxes the impact of human history on epidemic disease / by Bollet, Alfred J.

Table of Contents: “…Bubonic plague: the prototype of pandemic disasters -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 1: malaria or the burning ague -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 2: yellow fever -- Syphilis: the great pox -- The smallpox -- Cholera and the worldwide plagues of the nineteenth century -- The great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919: President Woodrow Wilson and the Blitzkatarrh…”
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