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Pandemic Influenza
- The Travel Industry Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist identifies
important steps that businesses in the travel industry can take now
to prepare for an influenza pandemic. This checklist provides a general
framework for developing a pandemic influenza plan.
http://pandemicflu.gov/plan/workplaceplanning/travelchecklist.html
(Posted: 04/17/2007)
- Keep Bird Flu Out of the United States poster, which includes
information on fines and prison terms for illegal smuggling of wild
and domestic birds and their products into the United States.
http://pandemicflu.gov/issues/keepbirdfluout.pdf
(posted: 04/17/2007)
- Legal Authorities Index in the National Strategy for Pandemic
Influenza: Implementation Plan
President Bush released the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza:
Implementation Plan on May 3, 2006. Appendix C from this document provides
a comprehensive listing and description of the federal legal authorities
and references that apply to the Plan.
(PDF
file) (posted 05/04/2006).
- Legal Preparedness in the HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan
Legal preparedness is critical to public health agencies' ability to
address pandemic influenza and other major health threats. On Nov. 2,
2005, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published the
“HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan," which identifies many elements that states
and localities should consider as they assess their legal preparedness.
Click here for
the full text of the Plan, prefaced with a directory to the legal preparedness
elements and action steps contained therein.
(PDF file).
- Pandemic Influenza Resource Sites from the Pan American Health Organization.
(http://www.paho.org/English/AD/DPC/CD/vir-flu-pandemic.htm
).
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