May 31st, 2007
The Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog is a five-week long blog campaign to help Americans prepare for a coming pandemic. Each week, a question will be posted and guest bloggers will write about the relevant issue at hand. Comments are open and welcome from everyone. The bloggers are a diverse group of leaders from various sectors […]
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May 31st, 2007
The Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog is a five-week long blog campaign to help Americans prepare for a coming pandemic. Each week, a question will be posted and guest bloggers will write about the relevant issue at hand. Comments are open and welcome from everyone. The bloggers are a diverse group of leaders from various sectors […]
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May 28th, 2007
The Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog is a five-week long blog campaign to help Americans prepare for a coming pandemic. Each week, a question will be posted and guest bloggers will write about the relevant issue at hand. Comments are open and welcome from everyone.
Rebecca Patton of the American Nurses Association presents several interesting and practical […]
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May 27th, 2007
The Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog is a five-week long blog campaign to help Americans prepare for a coming pandemic. Each week, a question will be posted and guest bloggers will write about the relevant issue at hand. Comments are open and welcome from everyone.
Albert Ruesga’s contribution “Lessons from Katrina” is a post that brought pandemic […]
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May 27th, 2007
The Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog is a five-week long blog campaign to help Americans prepare for a coming pandemic. Each week, a question will be posted and guest bloggers will write about the relevant issue at hand. Comments are open and welcome from everyone.
Nedra Weinreich of Spare Change talks about “Preparing for Persuasion”. The toughest […]
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May 26th, 2007
The Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog is a five-week long blog campaign to help Americans prepare for a coming pandemic. Each week, a question will be posted and guest bloggers will write about the relevant issue at hand. Comments are open and welcome from everyone.
The blog was launched on May 22 and already have several intelligent […]
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May 26th, 2007
Michael Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services, USA -
“Any community that fails to prepare with the expectation that the federal or state government will rescue them will be tragically mistaken.”
[source: Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog]
Tags: pandemic, flu, avian, bird flu, preparedness
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May 2nd, 2007
Google Earth technology just added another use for their map - track bird flu around the globe.
How cool is that.
Researchers at Colorado University-Boulder and Ohio State University designed an interactive “super map” to reconstruct the mutations and spread of the avian flu, helping anticipate future outbreaks.
How did they do it?
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April 29th, 2007
A war game, if you may. That’s how networks called the 48-hour drill that the US Center of Disease Control conducted this week to test the responses of US government agencies.
In a classic outbreak scenario, the script called for a student infected with a new strain of H5N1 returns from Indonesia and dies, but not […]
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April 26th, 2007
Nathan Wolfe, UCLA biologist and NIH Health Pioneer awardee, has the most unusual way of studying viral plague-harbingers.
He goes hunting, deep in the African jungles of Cameroon, Yaound.
The Doctor, as villagers call him, investigates sudden die-offs of primates in the jungles, collects blood from hunters and their kills, tests wild and domestic birds for avian […]
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