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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Flu in the Government

US President's National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza, 2005
http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/pandemic-influenza.html

HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan
http://www.hhs.gov/pandemicflu/plan/

GOVERNMENT'S AVIAN FLU PREP SITE: http://www.pandemicflu.gov/
Wild bird surveillance site, 2005 Lieberman CDC: http://www.gains.org/ http://lieberman.senate.gov/documents/bills/051024birdflu.pdf

BIOSENSE http://www.cdc.gov/biosense/

BIOWATCH http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/terror/RL32152.html#_1_3

Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act, 2006
http://www.fas.org/biosecurity/resource/legislation/s3678.htm

GAO Report on Flu vaccines/antivirals, 2007
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0892.pdf

Flu assistance-other countries, 2007, Hse. Rpt. 110-197
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/attachment/a.pdf?_m=955e8c310a06f8023f337a67aa50a248&wchp=dGLbVzz-zSkSA&_md5=006d9306df00a8e428bcefc3e6bc3d4a&ie=a.pdf

USDA's "How to protect your pet from bird flu" http://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/animal_health/content/printable_version/ProtectYourPetBird2006.pdf

National Defense University's "Bird flu and you" guide that specifies difference between seasonal flu and pandemic flu, and discusses pets and poultry work, and methods of "social distancing" http://www.ndu.edu/ctnsp/life_sci/TheBirdFluandyou%20Big%20Final.pdf

CDC Information:
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/gen-info/pdf/avianflufacts.pdf
  • Providing leadership to the National Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Task Force, created in May 2005 by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  • Working with the Association of Public Health Laboratories on training workshops for state laboratories on the use of special laboratory (molecular) techniques to identify H5 viruses.
  • Working with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and others to help states with their pandemic planning efforts.
  • Working with other agencies, such as the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration, on antiviral stockpile issues.
  • Working with the World Health Organization (WHO) to investigate influenza H5N1 among people (e.g., in Vietnam) and to provide help in laboratory diagnostics and training to local authorities.
  • Performing laboratory testing of H5N1 viruses.
  • Starting a $5.5 million initiative to improve influenza surveillance in Asia.
  • Holding or taking part in training sessions to improve local capacities to conduct surveillance for possible human cases of H5N1 and to detect influenza A H5 viruses by using laboratory techniques.
  • Developing and distributing reagent kits to detect the currently circulating influenza A H5N1 viruses.
  • CDC has developed and is distributing the first FDA approved test for the detection of the H5 viruses that first emerged in Asia in 2003.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic/
http://www.pandemicflu.gov
IMPORT BAN COUNTRIES: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/outbreaks/embargo.htm
HUMAN INFECTION, COUNTRY LIST: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/gen-info/avian-flu-humans.htm
NORTH AMERICAN OUTBREAKS: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/outbreaks/past.htm
QUARANTINE AUTHORITY: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dq/qa_influenza_amendment_to_eo_13295.htm,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050401-6.html

National Institutes of Health's H5N1 vaccine development process http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2005/avianfluvax.htm

FDA's vaccine H5N1: http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01611.html

Osha poultry workers safety guide/information:
http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_AvianFlu/avian_flu_general_precautions.pdf

http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_AvianFlu/avian_flu_guidance_english.pdf

USAID's outbreak map http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADG928.pdf

Department of State's travel facts for avian flu:
http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/health/health_1181.html

Congress:
House on National Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Plan, 2005
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_house_hearings&docid=f:24820.pdf


House International relations committee, 2005
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/archives/109/24906.pdf

President's 2005 budget amendments for flu
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/document?_m=d24dd9dcb960187c34cba0109d4740d3&wchp=dGLbVzz-zSkSA&_md5=9ca9a86cc0592e8ee2430089f4468fe3

Subcom on Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations, 2007 ; fed prep reviewed, asia, vaccine, antivirals
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_senate_hearings&docid=f:41637.wais

"WORKING THROUGH AN OUTBREAK: PANDEMIC FLU PLANNING AND CONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS" House government reform, 2006; fed agencies role, stats
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/document?_m=7876059c76611cbe7f42a8fe58897e3d&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVzz-zSkSA&_md5=1614a7d3c53dd8c069e798cded755ef4


"To Review the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Response Plan To Detect and Control the Potential Spread of Avian Influenza into the U.S" USDA Avian flu plan review, 2006, critique of H5N1 assumption "arrogance"
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/document?_m=fc63c2b9e6ced7ac8d9981cfff27c85b&wchp=dGLbVzz-zSkSA&_md5=7c1486c1956af89b501a431a530ad040

Commission on China's Response to Avian Flu, 2006
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_house_hearings&docid=f:26672.wais

"AVIAN FLU -- ARE WE PREPARED?" Gerberding's statement before Senate Foreign Relations, 2005; stats, prep
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/document?_m=82556ada8c324562aa04e289689e4b4a&_docnum=2&wchp=dGLbVzz-zSkSA&_md5=d0dfa81bc23bb0a0be2b11c5697586bd


"Assessing the National Pandemic Flu Preparedness Plan" review of HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan, 2005
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/document?_m=223d1a4c37d362f52ed58bccd803ac91&wchp=dGLbVzz-zSkSA&_md5=24fd53e56e7c86cdd0b398296eaca8d3


House government reform preparedness critique, 2005
http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20051014103607-58489.pdf

Hearing on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology to examine shortfalls in national pandemic influenza preparedness, 2007; coordination
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/document?_m=09f3bd4a347a8556bbed5e0cdc7af6f3&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVzz-zSkSA&_md5=914e71d9be7b2bd3b267ccd2d4924682


Hearing on Nuclear/bio attack: NIBS biosurveillance, DHS, 2006
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/document?_m=a9a115c93b44e2f39b07c0df2de9230b&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVzz-zSkSA&_md5=82cbd1f2e9a7e28c9db31688275be505


House Homeland Security on NBAttack, 2006; local readiness, measures
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/document?_m=e0658384042a1446645204dfd14e0824&_docnum=8&wchp=dGLbVzz-zSkSA&_md5=95d2f9b78a33ffcab7e72c2bd093dd9b

Hearing on health/education: PHSBPRA Act reauthorization, public health system preparedness and response measures, 2006
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/document?_m=eae237d58e2df555341fe68f20019585&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVzz-zSkSA&_md5=cb0835f8b441f9330365d2347dc5fd18

Congressional Budget Office assessment, 2006
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/72xx/doc7214/05-22-Avian%20Flu.pdf


Nuclear Threat Institute: www.globalhealthandsecurity.org/flu
as BW: http://www.nti.org/e_research/e3_82.html
Georgia flu prep, 2003: http://www.globalhealthandsecurity.org/pressroom/NTIRANDGAsummary.pdf

RAND's "Pandemic Influenza": http://search.rand.org/search?v%3afile=viv_1042%4031%3a72Z6vR&v%3aframe=list&v%3astate=root|N90&id=N90&action=list&
poll re public health response to BT fairness, by race: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9086/index1.html

LEGISLATION TIMELINE
http://www.fas.org/biosecurity/resource/legislation/s1687%20Senate%20Report.html
Global Pathogen Surveillance Act of 2007 Biden
http://blogs.nature.com/nm/spoonful/2008/08/biden_on_bird_flu_1.html

STATE GOVERNMENTS
MSEHPA and public health emergencies/disasters/bioterrorism 1/03--
http://www.publichealthlaw.net/Resources/ResourcesPDFs/MSPHA%20LegisTrack.pdf

MSEHPA/HSA 2003
-forced countermeasures to specific groups, indefinite health emergencies
http://www.mapcruzin.com/news/terrorspeak011403a.htm

LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
example: Georgia: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/415/georgia.pdf
Boston: http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070311/NEWS/703110466/1154/SUBURBS
San Jose 2008: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/south_bay&id=6493261

FEDERAL INTER-AGENCY: DOD, HHS, FDA, VA; DOS, USAID, USDA, EPA, USGS, OSHA, DOEd, DHS, USGeoSurvey, NatHighwayTrafficSafetyA
http://www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/federal/#implementation

NatWildlifeHealthCenter http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/national/06bird.html?th&emc=th

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