Avian Influenza - Critical Agent Update and Emerging Disease Threats

[Snowy Owl]

Avian Influenza
Critical Agent Update and Emerging Disease Threats
Sponsored by the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower
This activity is supported by a research grant from the Department of Defense.

http://www.5starmeded.org/bio/influenza.pdf

Intended Audience
This activity was developed for physicians, nurses, nurse
practitioners, pharmacists, and other healthcare providers
interested in preparing for biological threats.

Introduction

Are you concerned about the potential for harm from biological sources, either through bioterrorism or through natural causes? Are you uncertain of your knowledge and ability to provide needed care in that situation?

This activity, one of three, will employ an expert faculty to explore the
current state of knowledge about the potential biological threat from avian influenza, along with potential preventative measures, and treatments.

From a scientific and clinical perspective, this activity will provide cutting edge information to enhance your knowledge in the field of preparedness for an influenza pandemic.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be
better able to:

? Assess the history and current status of pandemic
influenzas

? Evaluate pandemic influenza as a biological threat to
society

? Describe the role of health care providers in a situation
involving pandemic influenza

? Discuss issues in treatment and management of
pandemic influenza

Planning Committee of the Initial Educational Initiative ?The Science and Strategy of Biopreparedness:
Critical Agent Update and Emerging Disease Threats?

Scott R. Lillibridge, MD Program Chair
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Preparedness
Houston, TX

Louisa Chapman, MD, MSPH
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA

Robert Howard, PhD, EMBS, MPH
Robert Howard & Associates
Duluth, GA

COL James W. Martin
US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases

Fort Derrick, MD
C. J. Peters, MD
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX

Faculty
Louisa Chapman, MD, MSPH
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA

Robert B. Couch, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Terrence M. Tumpey, PhD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA
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Accreditation and Certification

The Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower
is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing
Medical Education to provide continuing medical education
for physicians.

The Annenberg Center designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit?.

Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Annenberg Center for Health Sciences is approved as a provider of nurse practitioner continuing education by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

Provider #040207.

The Annenberg Center designates this program for a total of 1 contact hour of continuing education.


Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower, Institute for Nursing Continuing Education is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center?s Commission on Accreditation.

A maximum of 1 contact hour may be earned for successful
completion of this activity.
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The Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower
is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy
Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
This program has been developed according to the ACPE
Criteria for Quality and is assigned ACPE Universal Program
#797-000-07-001-H04. This program is designated
for up to 1 contact hour (0.1 CEUs) of continuing
pharmacy education credit.

There is no charge for this activity.

Statements of Credit will
be provided by mail following activity participation, and
upon completion and return of the evaluation form to the
Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower
(#4464/4465), 39000 Bob Hope Drive, Rancho Mirage, CA
92270 or by FAX to 760-773-4550. Please allow 4-6 weeks
for the delivery of your statement.
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[kent nickell]

Re: Avian Influenza - Critical Agent Update and Emerging Disease Threats

An impressive group with many years 'hunting viruses'... ie

Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World by C.J. Peters (1997)

"Bolivia, 1993. There are many ways to hunt a virus. If you have to cross a savanna under two feet of water to get to the patients, horseback can be the most efficient"

"Inoculating tissue cultures in the MARU lab, Panama, 1969"

"Many factors can contribute to disease, as I've discovered throughout my career. This house, typical of the living conditions encountered throughout the Third World, provides a graphic example of why rodent- and artropod-borne diseases, as well as common infections from poor water supply and waste disposal, are rampant"

"A typical hemorrhagic fever presentation - in this case the Crimean Congo virus. The five-dollar word for such extensive bleeding into the skin is 'ecchymosis' "

and one of the unexpected perks of doing fieldwork....

"My most memorable culinary experience of the trip occurred when the termites were swarming one day. The Africans had a technique for tapping the trees and bringing out a handful of them, or attracting them with lights, after which they would swallow them whole. Jean-Paul Gonzalez suggested I give it a try.

'Why not?' I responded. I collected a handful, quickly developing my own technique. I found that if you pop them into your mouth, chew well, and then swallow, the wings didn't tickle your throat going down. They had a delicate, nutty flavor and were so good that I started gathering them up and putting them in some of the plastic bags we'd brought for blood samples, which I'd then quick-freeze in liquid nitrogen, to be thawed out when we wanted a snack."