Past Updates from the Clinician Registry Listserv
Update Sent October 09, 2007
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Today's topics Include:
COCA Conference Call
Title: Seasonal Influenza Vaccination - Now is the Time!
Speaker: Andrew Kroger, MD
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Speaker Information
Andrew Kroger graduated from Yale University in 1998 with a joint MD/MPH, concentrating in International Health. He trained in Pediatrics for two years at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland before transferring to Emory University where he boarded in Public Health and Preventive Medicine. From 2001-2003 he worked at CDC in notifiable disease surveillance before beginning his current work in the National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases. As one of the traveling trainers in the Education, Information and Partnership Branch, Dr. Kroger has given over one hundred presentations that include immunization updates and pandemic influenza preparedness. He is also involved with some of the new distance learning activities of the branch, including the Current Issues in Immunization Series delivered through NetConferencing, and is the author of the newest edition of the CDCs General Recommendations on Immunization.
Stay tuned, more information will be available soon!
Seasonal Influenza
2007-08 INFLUENZA PREVENTION & CONTROL RECOMMENDATIONS Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) - Selected Highlights
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/acip/index.htm
For the full MMWR Recommendations and Reports this excerpt is taken from, please see http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5606a1.htm
Preventing the Spread of Influenza (the Flu) in Child Care Settings: Guidance for Administrators, Care Providers, and Other Staff - Oct 2
Flu viruses spread mainly from person to person through coughing or sneezing of people with influenza. Sometimes people may become infected by touching something with flu viruses on it and then touching their mouth or nose. Most healthy adults may be able to infect others beginning 1 day before symptoms develop and up to 5 days after becoming sick.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/infectioncontrol/childcaresettings.htm
Avian Influenza
Avian influenza – situation in Indonesia – WHO statement - Oct 8
The Ministry of Health of Indonesia has announced a new case of human infection of H5N1 avian influenza. A 44-year-old female from Pekanbaru City in Riau Province developed symptoms on 1 October and died on 6 October. A team is currently investigating the case to determine the source of her exposure. All of the contacts are being monitored but all remain healthy. Of the 108 cases confirmed to date in Indonesia, 87 have been fatal.
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2007_10_08/en/index.html
Cross-protection against H5N1 influenza virus infection is afforded by intranasal inoculation with seasonal trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine - Oct 5
Journal of Infectious Diseases -
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JID/journal/issues/v196n9/38072/brief/38072.abstract.html
H5N1 mutation that could help spark pandemic identified - Oct 5
Growth of H5N1 Influenza A Viruses in the Upper Respiratory Tracts of Mice - Public Library of Science Pathogens (PLoS Pathogens).
http://pathogens.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.ppat.0030133
A single amino acid substitution in PB1-F2 can result in increased viral pathogenicity - Oct 5
A Single Mutation in the PB1-F2 of H5N1 (HK/97) and 1918 Influenza A Viruses Contributes to Increased Virulence - Public Library of Science Pathogens (PLoS Pathogens).
http://pathogens.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.ppat.0030141
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