3322.0 Emerging Infectious Diseases including Avian & Pandemic Influenza

Monday, November 8, 2010: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
This panel will provide an overview of the epidemiology and control measures for AI and EIDs such as Nipah virus
Session Objectives: Discuss the importance of EIDs Identify AI as a paradigmatic EID in terms of epidemiology and prevention Discuss control measures for Nipah virus as an EID in Bangladesh
Moderator:
Basil Safi, Asia Division Chief

2:30pm
Could Avian Influenza be Contained in Rural Egypt through Community outreach behaviour change Program
Sahar, M.F Hegazi, PhD, Amal Zaki, MD, Maha El Rabat, PhD, Samir Refaai, MD MPH, Khaled Darwish, MD and Amr Kandeel, MD MPH
     
2:48pm
Nipah surveillance in Bangladesh for outbreak detection and prevention
Mushtuq Husain, MBBS, MPhil, PhD, Jahangir Hossain, MD, MSc, Hossain MS Sazzad, MD, Mahmudur Rahman, MD PhD and Steve Luby, MD
3:06pm
Healthcare providers' absenteeism during the H1N1 pandemic in Quebec: Is care for unimmunized relatives a problem?
Alain Vanasse, MD, PhD, Shabnam Asghari, MD, PhD, Alan Cohen, PhD, Godefroy Brais, Étienne Couture, Sébastien Desnoyers, Benjamin Fortin-Langelier and Alexandre Simard
     
3:24pm
Strategies used to combat Swine Flu (AH1N1v) in Poland
Andrzej Wojtyla, MD PhD, Przemyslaw Bilinski, MD, PhD and Piotr Holownia, PhD
        
3:42pm
Decrease in substance-using behaviors among Austronesian minority indigenous people after the 2003 SARS outbreak in Taiwan
Shu-Yu Lyu, MPH, PhD, Eugene Yu-Chang Peng, MD, MS and Wen-Min Lo, MS
4:00pm
Healtcare Providers Absenteism
Alain Vanasse, MD, PhD
4:18pm
Avaian Flue Poland
Piotr Holownia, PhD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health, Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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