Personal Health, avian flu

National Immunization Awareness Month

Posted October 10th, 2008 in Managing Your Practice, Personal Health

August is National Immunization Awareness Month and serves as an opportune time to review some of the current issues in the immunization field. Novel and pertinent developments include the threat of pandemic influenza, adolescent immunizations, a new vaccine for the elderly population, and the mumps outbreak in the Midwest.

Avian Influenza/Pandemic Influenza

Topics: adolescents, avian flu, herpes zoster, HPV, immunization, immunizations, influenza, mumps, tetanus

H?N?: Prepare Before it Arrives!

Posted October 6th, 2008 in Managing Your Practice, Personal Health

“For the first time in human history, we have a chance to prepare ourselves for a pandemic before it arrives …. It is incumbent upon the global community to act now.” Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General, WHO

In the last century we had three flu pandemics: Spanish flu in 1918, Asian flu in 1957, and Hong Kong flu in 1968. In the United States, the Spanish flu killed more people than all the combat deaths of the 20th century, with more than 500,000 deaths in the United States and 20–40 million worldwide.

Topics: avian flu, flu, H5N1, Healthcare News and Updates, influenza, pandemic, vaccination, vaccine

Avian Influenza (H5N1)

Posted September 22nd, 2008 in Managing Your Practice, Personal Health

It's an average week in your busy practice, when, over the space of a few days, three situations come up:

Topics: avian flu, bird flu, flu, H5N1, influenza, Public Health

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