Past Updates from the Clinician Registry Listserv
Update Sent March 27, 2006
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UPDATES TO INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE
The following updates were made to CDC information and guidance from March 20-27, 2006, or reflect current events. If you have any questions on these or other clinical issues, please write to us at coca@cdc.gov.
Today's topics Include:
- Upcoming COCA Conference Call
- Avian Influenza
- Pandemic Influenza
- Seasonal Influenza
- Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) Journal
Upcoming COCA Conference Call
We are pleased to announce March's COCA Conference Call agenda:
Title: Overview of CDC Operations and Natural Disasters
Speaker: Dahna Batz, MD - Commander, US Public Health Service
Date/Time: March 28, 2006 @ 1 PM EST
Toll-Free Dial-In Number: 800-988-9470
Passcode: Disasters
Objectives:
- Define & Discuss the National Response Plan
- Describe CDC activation during an emergency
- Describe CDC's disaster epidemiological activities during an emergency
Dr. Batz has been a medical officer working in the areas of disaster epidemiology and health assessment at CDC since 1996. She is presently Acting Team Leader of the Disaster Epidemiology and Assessment Team, Health Studies Branch, National Center for Environmental Health at CDC.
PowerPoint slides will be soon be available for this presentation at the following webpage: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/coca/callinfo.asp.
Avian Influenza
Avian Influenza Update: Azerbaijan -
On March 21, 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that avian influenza A (H5N1) virus infection had been confirmed in seven patients in Azerbaijan; five of the seven patients died. This marks the first report of laboratory-confirmed human cases of H5N1 influenza in Azerbaijan.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/latestupdate.htm
Embargo of Birds from Specified Countries -
Israel and Afghanistan added to embargo.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/outbreaks/embargo.htm
Amendment to embargo of birds & bird products imported from Afghanistan -
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/pdf/embargo-afghanistan-032106.pdf
Amendment to embargo of birds & bird products imported from Israel -
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/pdf/embargo-israel-032006.pdf
Avian Influenza: Current Situation -
Since February 1, 2006, the first cases of H5N1 or H5 infections in poultry or wild birds have been reported in the following countries: Iraq (H5), Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Iran, Austria, Germany, Egypt, India, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina (H5), Slovak Republic, Switzerland, Niger, Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro (H5), Pakistan (H5), Albania, Poland, Georgia, Cameroon, Myanmar (Burma), Sweden, Denmark and Israel. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/outbreaks/current.htm
Pandemic Influenza
Instructions to Estimate the Potential Impact of the Next Influenza Pandemic Upon Locale Y -
Provides downloadable instructions on using the software programs FluAid 2.0 and FluSurge 2.0 to estimate the potential impact of the next influenza pandemic on any given locale, such as a country, state, city, or county. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic/impactestimate.htm
Seasonal Influenza
Flu Activity
During week 11 (March 12 – March 18, 2006), influenza activity decreased in the United States. Six hundred fifty-five specimens (21.2%) tested by U.S. World Health Organization (WHO) and National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS) collaborating laboratories were positive for influenza. The proportion of patient visits to sentinel providers for influenza-like illness (ILI) was above the national baseline. The proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza was below the baseline level. Twenty-three states and New York City states reported widespread influenza activity; 14 states reported regional influenza activity; 8 states and the District of Columbia reported local influenza activity; and 5 states reported sporadic influenza activity. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/
Flu Activity Reports & Surveillance
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluactivity.htm
Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) Journal
The Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) journal provides recognition of new and re-emerging infections and understanding of factors involved in disease emergence, prevention, and elimination. It also represents the scientific communications component of CDC's efforts against the threat of emerging infections. See the April 2006 issue of the EID journal at the following link: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/index.htm
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