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What's New

Infection Control Strategies for Specific Procedures in Health-Care Facilities: Epidemic-prone and pandemic-prone acute respiratory diseases, A Quick Reference Guide 
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CD48/INF/3 - Avian Influenza and Influenza Pandemic Preparedness  
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Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO 
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Press Releases & News

PAHO Today - August 2006 Edition 
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Agencies Join Forces to Inform and Educate on Avian Flu and Human Pandemic Risks in the Americas 
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PAHO Honors Volunteers on World Blood Donor Day 
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Helping Prevent Avian Influenza in Latin America and the Caribbean: FAO Handbook Offers Guidance to Small Poultry Farmers

WHO Tries to Allay Fears Over Bird Flu

Information for Journalists

Bird Flu: Communicating the Risk

WHO Handbook for Journalists: Influenza Pandemic

Travel Information

Travelers' Health 
CDC

International Travel and Health 
WHO

WHO recommendations relating to travellers coming from and going to countries experiencing outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza 
WHO

Fact Sheets

Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO 
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Communicable Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO: Aims, Strategies and Lines of Action 
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Veterinary Public Health at PAHO 
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Healthy Food Markets 
WHO brochure

Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza Outbreaks in Poultry and in Humans: Food Safety Implications 
WHO

Avian Influenza A (H5N1) in Humans and in Poultry in Asia: Food Safety Considerations 
WHO

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Avian Influenza Frequently Asked Questions 
WHO

Key Facts About Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) and Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus 
CDC

Avian Influenza: Frequently Asked Questions (Weekly Epidemiological Record 80:44, pp. 377-384) 
WHO/WER

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Links to WHO & Other Sites

Bird Flu: Preparation, Not Panic! 
Video

GF-TADs: Global Framework for the Progressive Control of Transboundary Diseases 
OIE

Avian Influenza Response 
USAID

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   WHO Avian Influenza Page

IDB/PAHO paper: Avian and Human Pandemic Influenza: Addressing the Need for Integration between Health and Agriculture in the Preparedness Plans in Latin America

PAHO Regional Mandates and Resolutions

CD48/INF/3 - Avian Influenza and Influenza Pandemic Preparedness  
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CE142/19 - Avian Flu and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: Progress Report 
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CSP27/8--Avian Flu and Pandemic Influenza: Progress Report 
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CE140/9 - Avian Flu and Pandemic Influenza: Progress Report  
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WHO Global Mandates and Resolutions

WHA60.28--Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: Sharing of Influenza Viruses and Access to Vaccines and Other Benefits 
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Latest Updates

EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 5, No. 1, 7 January 2008: Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza (LPAI) H5N2 in the Dominican Republic

WHO Avian Influenza Updates

WHO Public Health Mapping and GIS Map Library

OIE Update on Avian Influenza in Birds

FAO Animal Health Special Report (Avian Influenza)

Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED-mail) | español | português

Situation Reports

Situation Updates— Avian Influenza 
WHO/EPR

Guidelines, Human Component (WHO)

General Guidelines
Diagnosis & Treatment
Food Safety
Infection Control
Surveillance
Vaccines & Antivirals
Infection Control Strategies for Specific Procedures in Health-Care Facilities: Epidemic-prone and pandemic-prone acute respiratory diseases, A Quick Reference Guide 
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Recommendations and Laboratory Procedures for Detection of Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus in Specimens from Suspected Human Cases 
Recommendations and Laboratory Procedures - WHO

Clinical Management of Human Infection with Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus 
WHO

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Guidelines, Animal Component (FAO, OIE)

Press Release in English: Helping Prevent Avian Influenza in Latin America and the Caribbean: FAO Handbook Offers Guidance to Small Poultry Farmers
Guide in Spanish: Guide for the Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Small-Scale Poultry Farms in Latin America and the Caribbean   |   Full text

Global Strategy for the Progressive Control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) (FAO)

Avian Influenza: Guidelines for Control of the Disease (OIE) | français

Newsletters, Animal Component

VPH News: Communication Channel of the PAHO Veterinary Public Health Unit 
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EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 5, No. 1 (7 January 2008) 
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VPH News: (Year 1, No. 1, July 2007) 
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Conferences & Meetings

RIMSA 15: Inter-American Meeting at Ministerial Level on Health and Agriculture (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 11–12 June 2008) 
PANAFTOSA

Third Interagency Meeting on Strategic Communication for Avian/Pandemic Influenza.  
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Subegional Risk and Outbreak Communication for Avian Influenza and Pandemic Preparedness, Subregional Workshop 
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Regional Events Directory, Veterinary Public Health

Food Safety

A Guide to Healthy Food Markets 
WHO

Healthy Food Markets 
WHO brochure

Avian Influenza and Food Safety: Statement by Dr. LEE Jong-Wook, WHO Director-General 
WHO

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Databases

SIEPI: Epidemiological database with regional prevalence data for the Americas, maintained by PAHO's Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease (PANAFTOSA), which deals with zoonoses and food-safety issues.

FAOSTAT-Agriculture: Provides statistics on crops, livestock, irrigation, land use, fertilizer, pesticide consumption, and agricultural machinery. | español | français

PAHO Virtual Health Libraries (VHLs)

Portal Avian Influenza, Virtual Health Library (VHL) 
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PANAFTOSA Virtual Health Library (VHS), Full Texts 
PANAFTOSA

Virtual Library in Veterinary Public Health (VHL PANAFTOSA) 
VHL PANAFTOSA