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Explaining 3 Flues
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Explaining 3 Flues
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This table may help in clarifying: 3 kinds of flu x 5 categories for making sense of them, and for explaining the very basics to others.
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</td><th align="center">Common flu</th><th align="center">Avian or birdflu</th><th align="center">Pandemic flu or panflu</th></tr> <tr><th align="center">What it is</th><td align="center">A(H3N2), A(H1N1), B (all of which are adapted to human hosts)</td><td align="center">A(H5N1) (from birds, not adapted to human hosts)</td><td align="center">Who knows (maybe a mutated or recombined A(H5N1), or maybe another virus)</td></tr> <tr><th align="center">What is happening</th><td align="center">Winter outbreaks, 5?10% attack rate, previously weak may die</td><td align="center">Many birds ill in 3 continents, few people ill in at least 8 countries, 52% of ill people die</td><td align="center">No pandemic as of this writing (keep this in mind!)</td></tr> <tr><th align="center">What might happen</th><td align="center">More of the same</td><td align="center">More spread (countries, species)</td><td align="center">Many people ill, a number would die, lots of disruption</td></tr> <tr><th align="center">What we?re doing</th><td align="center">Symptomatic treatment, no antibiotics unless bacterial infection, vaccines esp. for certain groups</td><td align="center">Surveillance, diagnose, treat</td><td align="center">Talk, imagine, plan, prepare</td></tr> <tr><th align="center">What else might we do</th><td align="center">Work on more and better education, vaccines, surveillance, treatment</td><td align="center">A few things! Better prevention, diagnosis, reporting, treatment</td><td align="center">So much more! Prepare for disruption on a community level, improve detection, speed up vaccine production, etc</td></tr> </tbody></table>
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Explaining 3 Flues
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This table may help in clarifying: 3 kinds of flu x 5 categories for making sense of them, and for explaining the very basics to others.
Print this page and share it.
Maybe you want to rebuild it as 4 ?slides? in a (powerpoint or similar software) presentation. One slide for the ?framework of questions? (this would be the very first column), then another for ?common flu?, a third slide for ?avian or birdflu?, and a fourth for ?pandemic flu or panflu?.
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</td><th align="center">Common flu</th><th align="center">Avian or birdflu</th><th align="center">Pandemic flu or panflu</th></tr> <tr><th align="center">What it is</th><td align="center">A(H3N2), A(H1N1), B (all of which are adapted to human hosts)</td><td align="center">A(H5N1) (from birds, not adapted to human hosts)</td><td align="center">Who knows (maybe a mutated or recombined A(H5N1), or maybe another virus)</td></tr> <tr><th align="center">What is happening</th><td align="center">Winter outbreaks, 5?10% attack rate, previously weak may die</td><td align="center">Many birds ill in 3 continents, few people ill in at least 8 countries, 52% of ill people die</td><td align="center">No pandemic as of this writing (keep this in mind!)</td></tr> <tr><th align="center">What might happen</th><td align="center">More of the same</td><td align="center">More spread (countries, species)</td><td align="center">Many people ill, a number would die, lots of disruption</td></tr> <tr><th align="center">What we?re doing</th><td align="center">Symptomatic treatment, no antibiotics unless bacterial infection, vaccines esp. for certain groups</td><td align="center">Surveillance, diagnose, treat</td><td align="center">Talk, imagine, plan, prepare</td></tr> <tr><th align="center">What else might we do</th><td align="center">Work on more and better education, vaccines, surveillance, treatment</td><td align="center">A few things! Better prevention, diagnosis, reporting, treatment</td><td align="center">So much more! Prepare for disruption on a community level, improve detection, speed up vaccine production, etc</td></tr> </tbody></table>
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