Pandemic Influenza Articles & Analysis
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Application in the treatment of influenza Introduction of influenza Influenza, also called flu or grippe, is an acute viral infection of the upper or lower respiratory tract. ...
And no provision of the Act addresses public health more generally, which falls outside of OSHA's sphere of expertise." In prior pandemics OSHA has provided guidance to employers but has also stated that they have no authority over pandemic exposures. OSHA has said in every prior pandemic that this it is beyond their scope and under the scope ...
Ignored in the PPE requirements are the eyes, which are mucus membranes that have ACE2 receptors, to which the COVID viral particles bind. Unlike the 2009 guidance for pandemic influenza, and the ETS 1910.502 for medical professionals, this ETS has no engineering controls. ...
Among the threats topping that list were another global influenza pandemic, Ebola and other high threat pathogens, and vaccine hesitancy. ...
As vaccine rollouts take place in many countries around the world, it feels like the globe will soon be able to take a collective sigh of relief that this pandemic could nearly be over. However, the reality may not be so simple. Leading scientists including the chair of the WHO’s strategic and technical advisory group for infectious hazards expect that SARS-CoV-2 will become endemic, ...
It has become critical to assess the potential range of consequences of a pandemic influenza outbreak given the uncertainty about its disease characteristics while investigating risks and mitigation strategies of vaccines, antivirals, and social distancing measures. Here, we use a simulation model and rigorous experimental design with sensitivity analysis that ...
However, gastrointestinal symptoms developed in a large proportion of influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus infected people during the pandemic in 2009 and fecal shedding was reported. This fecal route could potentially play a role in the entry of human pathogenic influenza viruses in to the water cycle. Monitoring of influenza viruses ...
Abstract Background: As part of our influenza pandemic preparedness, we studied the exhaled air dispersion distances and directions through two different face masks (Respironics; Murrysville, PA) attached to a human-patient simulator (HPS) during noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NPPV) in an isolation room with pressure of -5 Pa. ...
The type of disaster being confronted (e.g. biological attack, infectious disease outbreak or natural disaster) also dictates different design considerations with respect to the dispensing clinic, facility locations, dispensing and backup strategies, and level of security protection.Keywords: anthrax, biological agents, bioterrorism, biodefence, countermeasures, emergency response, simulation, ...
We present our methodology and stochastic discrete-event simulation developed to model the screening of passengers for pandemic influenza at the US port-of-entry airports. Our model uniquely combines epidemiology modelling, evolving infected states and conditions of passengers over time, and operational considerations of screening in a single simulation. ...