CDC Issues Guide on How to Fight Flu Pandemic
As long time readers know, I’ve posted quite a bit about flu pandemics and now the Center for Disease Control (CDC) today issued a guide for communities on preparing for a flu pandemic. The Washington Post had a story on it.
CDC Issues Guide on How to Fight Flu Pandemic - washingtonpost.com
The emphasis is on dealing with situations before a vaccine or drug is available. They call it “non-pharmaceutical interventions”. The Post article does point out that one of the areas that is not addressed is the use of face masks. These were extremely popular in Asian countries during the SARS outbreak a year or so ago. It seems the CDC is still evaluating that doing their own research as well as looking at historic data. I’m sure that as soon as they complete their evaluation they will release their recommendations.
Here is the actual pdf (106 pages).
Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation (PDF - 2.51 MB)
Other Resources
PandemicFlu.gov
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February 2nd, 2007 at 6:27 am
here is the audio from the CDC Pandemic press conference:
http://www.scribemedia.org/2007/02/01/center-for-disease-control-issues-pandemic-guidelines/