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 ).