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Overview The U.S. Government is concerned that the ongoing outbreaks of avian influenza in birds have the potential to turn into a human influenza pandemic that would have significant global health, economic, and social consequences. Funding for implementing the national strategy requested by President Bush and approved by Congress includes $251 million to detect and contain outbreaks before they spread around the world. Continuous global surveillance and monitoring of influenza is essential. Rapid detection of unusual influenza outbreaks, isolation of possible pandemic viruses and the immediate notification of national and international health authorities is critical for mounting a timely and effective response to a pandemic potential.
Coordination Activities - Influenza Technologies Available for Product Development
Learn how HHS facilitates the world-wide development of new influenza technologies - This fact sheet outlines United States actions to support avian influenza preparedness efforts in more than 50 countries, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and other international and in-country partners.
- The Action Group will advance the international objectives defined by the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza. The Group is also responsible for 83 specific actions to implement the U.S. international engagement strategy based on preparedness and communication, surveillance and detection, and response and containment.
- Read about ways that the U.S. is working with countries worldwide to combat avian flu
- Read about the new H5N1 outbreaks in poultry stocks in Bangladesh, Benin, China, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Myanmar, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and Viet Nam.
- Learn about the meeting which took place in November 2005 concerning avian and human pandemic flu
Global Monitoring - Stay informed with this up-to-date listing of confirmed cases of avian influenza A (H5N1)
- Read avian influenza situation updates as they occur by country and by date
- View a graph of avian influenza outbreaks in poultry by country from the end of 2003 to the present.
- This edition sets out results from the first analysis of epidemiological data on all 205 laboratory-confirmed H5N1 cases officially reported to WHO by onset date from December 2003 to 30 April 2006.
- Global Avian Influenza Network for SurveillanceThis international consortium focus efforts on the global monitoring of infectious diseases that can be carried by domestic or wild birds.
- Review a chronology of avian influenza outbreaks in animals and humans from 1996 to the present.
- Learn about the WHO global influenza surveillance network comprising four WHO Collaboration Centres and 112 institutions in 83 countries
- Read about the European Union's surveillance network comprising roughly 13,000 physicians and covering a total population of 464 million inhabitants
- Epidemiology is the study of distribution and determinants of disease in a population. Read about cases and outbreaks and how they affect public health.
- Read the latest official reports on test results for avian influenza, arranged by country, followed by virus type, and then by date.
- Learn about research on animal influenza viruses with the goal of understanding why and how they infect humans
- Access a list of resources on avian influenza.
- Learn how U.S. and International agencies in the GAINS program use satellites to monitor birds for Avian Influenza.
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Planning Activities - Learn about the WHO global influenza program
- Read about preparation activities that individual countries can take for the next pandemic
- These practical field-based guidelines are intended for use by humanitarian agencies, UN organizations coordinating these services; and donor agencies providing financial support for these populations. They also target ministry of health staff working with refugee and displaced populations at local and national levels.
- The protocol has four main parts: recognition of the signal or "triggering" event; immediate actions following recognition of the signal; actions that should be undertaken once the event has been verified, the overall situation has been assessed, and a decision has been made to launch the rapid containment operation; and information about the deployment of the global antiviral stockpile.
- Learn about the role of WHO and recommendations for national measures before and during pandemics
- Read a WHO publication on pandemic preparedness planning, available in several languages
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Related Information - Bird and Pandemic Flu Information from Other Nations and Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs)Access a list of pandemic influenza planning Web sites from other countries.
- Find international news coverage of avian flu. Includes avian flu information in more than 20 languages.
- This report examines the public health risk of H5N1 in light of the increasing number of affected poultry in Europe and elsewhere and planning strategies for the potential pandemic implications of the virus. The report covers the 1990s to the present.
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