Resources on Bird Flu Virus ( H5N1 ) Avian Influenza 

Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) Resources

International and national anti-influenza plans

• WHO global influenza preparedness plan (2005)
• WHO checklist for influenza pandemic preparedness planning



• United States



• EU: Czech Republic
• EU: Denmark
• EU: France
• EU: Germany
• EU: Hungary
• EU: Ireland
• EU: Italy
• EU: The Netherlands
• EU: The Slovak Republic
• EU: Spain
• EU: Sweden
• EU: United Kingdom 

Governments

• UK: UK Health Departments' UK influenza pandemic contingency plan (19 October 2005)

• UK: Pandemic flu

• Belgium: Informations concernant la grippe aviaire et les dispositions prises par la Belgique dans l'optique d'une pandémie de grippe (2 November 2005)

• France: Réunion interministérielle sur la grippe aviaire (14 October 2005)

• France: Plan de lutte contre une « Pandémie grippale » (May 2005)

• France: Grippe aviaire : un plan de lutte et de prévention contre la pandémie (May 2005)

• Spain: National influenza preparedness and response plan (May 2005)

• United States: National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza (1 November 2005)

• United States: President Outlines Pandemic Influenza Preparations and Response (1 November 2005)

• United States: Fact Sheet: Safeguarding America Against Pandemic Influenza (1 November 2005)

• United States Department of Defense press release: DoD Plans Web Page to Support President's Plans Against Pandemic (1 November 2005)

• United States - House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi: Statement on President's Avian Flu Pandemic Preparedness Strategy (1 November 2005)

• Germany: Influenzapandemieplanung (July 2005)

• Czech Republic: National pandemic plan (10 November 2004)

• The Netherlands: Influenza: Operationeel deeldraaiboek 1. Aviaire influenza, gevolgen voor de volksgezondheid (October 2005)

• The Netherlands: Influenza: Operationeel deeldraaiboek 1. Aviaire influenza, gevolgen voor de volksgezondheid, bijlagen (October 2005)

• The Netherlands: Beleidsdraaiboek Influenzapandemie (July 2004)

• Sweden: Beredskapsplanering för en pandemisk influensa (nationella insatser) (February 2005)

• Sweden: Beredskapsplanering för en pandemisk influensa, Underlag för regional planering (February 2005)

• Sweden: Strategier för prevention och kontroll av influensa (February 2005)

• Hungary: Hungarian National plan for the pandemic preparedness to influenza (September 2003)

• Italy Piano Nazionale Multifase d'mergenza per una Eventuale Pandemia Influenzale (March 2002)

• Ireland: A Model Plan for Influenza Pandemic Preparedness 2002

• Sloak Republic: Th national plan for pandemic of influenza in the Sloak Republic (August 2001)

• The United Kingdom Health Protection Agency: Avian influenza

• The United Kingdom Health Protection Agency: Avian Influenza disease factsheet

• Belgium: Santé publique, sécurité de la chaine alimenaire et environnement

• Belgium: Grippe Aviaire - 19.10.2005

• Australian Government: Avian Influenza

• Public Health Agency of Canada: Avian Influenza

• United States - Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)

• United States Department for Labour - Occupational Safety & Health Administration: Guidance for protecting workers against avian flu

• Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China: Prevention of Avian Influenza

• Singapore Government: Bird flu

Industry

• Roche press release: Roche donates 3 million treatments of antiviral Tamiflu to the WHO for use in an influenza pandemic (24 August 2005)

• Roche: Tamiflu - Facts & Figures (October 2005)

• European Vaccine Manufacturer (EVM): Preparing for Influenza pandemic: what has been done and what needs to be done to provide sufficient quantity of pandemic vaccines in time (25 October 2005)

• European Vaccine Manufacturer (EVM): Proposal for an Action Plan between European Vaccine Manufacturers (EVM) and Member States with the Support of the European Commission (July 2004)

• European Vaccine Manufacturer (EVM): Influenza Pandemic Prepardeness

• European Vaccine Manufacturer (EVM): Website
• Roche's media briefing: Pandemic influenza and Tamiflu production (9 November 2005)

• Roche: Roche pandemic strategy

International Organisations

• World Health Organisation: Responding to the avian influenza pandemic threat - Recommended strategic actions (2005)

• World Health Organisation: WHO global ibfluenza preparedness plan (2005)

• World Health Organisation: National Influenza Pandemic Plans

• World Health Organisation: Ten things you need to know about pandemic influenza

• World Health Organisation: Avian influenza [FR] [Factsheet] [FR] ; [FAQ] ; [WHO global influenza programme]

• World Organisation for Animal Health [FR]

• Food and agriculture organisation of the United Nations: Avian influenza [FR] ; Avian Influenza - FAO Response [FR] ; [Wild birds and avian influenza]

Press Review

• Science and Development Network (SciDevNet): Bird flu: the role of science journalists

• Science Magazine: Avian Influenza: Are Wild Birds to Blame?

• Nature: Avian flu

• Nature: Avian flu timeline

• BBC: Q&A: Bird flu

• BusinessWeek: Avian Flu Under the Microscope

• Science and Development Network (SciDevNet): Africa, Middle East, Latin America prepare for bird flu

• BBC News: Bird flu: Country preparations

• CNN: Flu doomsday scenario for world economy - Experts say flu crisis similar to 1918 outbreak would leave world economy 'in shambles' for years

• Newsweek: Avian flu fears

• Le Monde: Infographie - La nouvelle épizootie de grippe aviaire contemporaine de l'épidémie humaine hivernale

• Le Monde: Infographie - Grippe aviaire : une vingtaine d'épidémies depuis 1959

• Der Standard: Vogelgrippe

Tamiflu, known as oseltamivir, is currently considered as the most effective antiviral drug available for avian influenza. This drug, produced by Roche, is recommended by the WHO to be stockpiled in preparation for a flu pandemic. Tamiflu does not cure a flu infection but might prevent illness from developing. Its effectiveness against H5N1 is unknown although laboratory tests suggest that if taken in higher doses, it should have some effect. At all there are 4 influenza drugs: amantadine and rimantadine which help fight certain strains of H5N1 infections, and Tamiflu® and Relenza® which are both drugs classified as neuraminidase inhibitors and are said to help against most strains of H5N1 virus.

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