Combating the threat of pandemic influenza

drug discovery approaches

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience in Hoboken, NJ

Written in English

Published: 2007 Pages: 279 Downloads: 743

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Statement	edited by Paul F. Torrence.
LC Classifications	RM
The Physical Object
Pagination	xiii, 279 p. :
Number of Pages	279
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Open Library	OL22768240M
ISBN 10	9780470118795

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All researchers in medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, drug discovery, biochemistry, virology, microbiology, and public. Combating the Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Drug Discovery Approaches by PF Torrence (ed).

Wiley Intersci- ence, Hoboken, NJ, $ (hardcover). The threat of a human influenza pandemic has greatly increased over the past several years with the emergence of highly virulent avian influenza viruses, notably H5N1 viruses, which have infected humans in several Asian and European countries.

Previous influenza pandemics have. Summary This chapter contains sections titled: DAS (Fludase®): A Novel Influenza Virus Receptor Inactivator T‐ An Inhibitor of Influenza Virus Replication Inhibiting Viral Replication and.

To add immediacy, Combating the Threat of Pandemic Influenza might be entitled Combating the Threat of Seasonal Influenza. In the first decade of the new century, an ominous increase in the frequency of emergence of new antigenic variants of rapidly changing influenza viruses has been : W.

Paul Glezen. Research has identified three essential prerequisites for the start of a pandemic: transmission of a novel viral subtype to humans; viral replication causing disease in humans; and efficient human-to-human transmission of the virus.

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It is unlikely that the death count would have There are still aspects to the /19 "Spanish"flu pandemic that elude us. It likely originated in Kansas, not Spain.4/5(2K).

An influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the world contrast to the regular seasonal epidemics of influenza, these pandemics occur irregularly – there have been five influenza pandemics during the last years.

Pandemics can cause high levels of mortality, with the Spanish flu. A ten-book series that examines status of preparations, implementation strategies, and other aspects of the US response to the threat of pandemic influenze Audio Back to the Future: The Influenza Revisited.

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Torrence.," The Quarterly Review of. The “flu” has become a popular catchall term to describe anything from a bad cold to stomach distress.

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The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready. Workshop Summary. Institute of Medicine (US) Forum on Microbial Threats; Knobler SL, Mack A, Mahmoud A, Lemon SM, editors.

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Emerging infectious diseases of pandemic potential, such as influenza viruses of animal origin and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), remain persistent threats to livelihoods, food security and health across Asia and the world.

The Pandemic Playbook (TPP) is committed to educating the public and global leadership concerning this growing threat which is capable of exterminating our species. Therefore understanding and analyzing epidemics and pandemics and their source emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), pathogens of pandemic potential, is the focus of TPP.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) partnered with Emory University to mark the th anniversary of the flu with a symposium about influenza pandemics: when and if they will strike, how ready the United States is to confront a pandemic, and how to do so.

A surge in human infections caused by avian influenza A H7N9 virus in China has prompted pandemic concerns and has focused attention on novel influenza A viruses.1 Sincemore than human beings infected with avian influenza A H7N9 virus, resulting from poultry exposures, have been reported during winter–spring epidemics in China.2–4 Low Cited by: Influenza viruses have posed a continual threat to global public health since at least as early as the Middle Ages, resulting in an estimated 3–5 million cases of severe illness and ,–, deaths annually worldwide, according to a recent estimate [].Regional influenza epidemics occur on an annual basis, resulting in millions of illnesses and hospitalizations Cited by: 3.

Combatting influenza is a hallmark of Dr. Schuchat’s 30 years at CDC. In reflecting on the influenza pandemic, Dr. Schuchat says studying what happened can help us to better prepare the nation and the world for similar scenarios in the future.

National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza presents our approach to address the threat of pandemic influenza, whether it results from the strain currently in birds in Asia or another influenza virus.

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The Pandemic Influenza and Other Emerging Threats (PIOET) Unit supports two major lines of work: H5N1 Avian Influenza, and Emerging Pandemic Threats. H5N1 Avian I nfluenza: SinceUSAID has strengthened the capacities of more than 50 countries for monitoring the spread of H5N1 avian influenza among wild bird.

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For centuries, novel strains of influenza have emerged to produce human pandemics, causing widespread illness, death, and disruption.

There have been four influenza pandemics in the past hundred years. During this time, globalization processes, alongside advances in medicine and epidemiology, have altered the way these pandemics are experienced.

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Preparation measures for a biological threat or influenza pandemic focus on rapid quarantine, vaccines, developing antiviral treatments, and economic concerns (Brown, ; Ferguson et.

How much or how little any nation, state, community, business, or individual should prepare for an influenza pandemic has been subject of occasional debate.

Some advocates have questioned how the threat of a severe but unlikely influenza pandemic compares to that of other pressing public health and safety issues, and whether common resources.INFLUENZA PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS - A CONCEPT PLAN TO PREPARE FOR THE CONTINGENCY OF A MAJOR GLOBAL PANDEMIC OF INFLUENZA CONTENTS SECTION I: threat of a major pandemic of influenza which could potentially have serious effects on the health of the human population.

Major pandemics have occurred in/The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act (PAHPAI) is legislation introduced and passed by the U.S. Congress in that aims to improve the nation's preparation and response to public health threats, including both natural threats and deliberate man-made threats.

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