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Contact: Stephen M.
Apatow
Founder, Director of Research & Development
Humanitarian Resource Institute (UN:NGO:DESA)
Humanitarian University Consortium Graduate Studies
Center for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law
Phone: 203-668-0282
Email: s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net
Internet: www.humanitarian.net
Pathobiologics International
Internet: www.pathobiologics.org
Dear
Colleagues,
We are in the midst of contingency discussions associated with a
concurrent International Economic Emergency and
International
Public Health Emergency associated with the Novel A/H1N1 (recombinant Avian Influenza A H5N1).
GENEVA (AP) - The World Health Organization said
Thursday
that up to 2 billion people could be infected by swine flu if the
current
outbreak turns into a pandemic. The agency said a pandemic typically
lasts
two years. -- WHO:
Up to 2 billion people might get swine flu: Breibart, 7 May 2009.
Definition: pandemic (an epidemic that is
geographically
widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world)
-- Princeton WordNet.
Surveillance, containment and control are crucial as we watch
geographic spread and population impact by (1) human spread via air
travel, including human to animal (2) natural ecological factors such
as migratory birds,
as was noted with West Nile Virus and Avian Influenza A H5N1.
Geographic
analysis and emergency measures must be optimized for all global
regions,
with emphasis on impoverished population bases without an adequate
human/veterinary
public health infrastructure
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