accurate forecast of influenza activity would be helpful even 1-2 weeks in advance: measures could be initiated to modify the severity of the outbreak. For example, public health officials could allocate resources to increase vaccination rates among high-risk individuals and health care workers. Prophylactic medication, such as neuroamidiase inhibitors, could be administered to persons in high-risk groups (e.g. nursing home residents and staff).

Although influenza epidemics occur each year, the peak activity can differ by up to 2-3 months, making it difficult to identify the best time for vaccination campaigns. The influenza season can start early (as it did in 2003-2004) before vaccination campaigns are completed. Alternatively, activity might peak three months after employees have been vaccinated against influenza (as it did in 2004-2005).

accurate forecast of influenza vaccine effectiveness would be helpful in providing advance warning of a suboptimal vaccine to assist in public health preparedness. For example, public health officials could allocate resources to increase prophylactic medication administration, such as neuraminidase inhibitors, in high-risk groups (e.g. nursing home residents and staff).

http://www.pandemicflu.gov - Pandemicflu.gov is the official U.S. government Web site for information on pandemic flu and avian influenza.

For more information about pandemic influenza, send us an email at fluinfo@sbcphd.org or phone 888-SBCoFlu (888-722-6358). Home | Individuals and Families | Businesses | Schools | Healthcare | Government | Communities | Media | Contact PandemicFlu.gov is the official U.S. government Web site for information on pandemic flu and avian influenza.

If local health officials and health care workers could predict an outbreak, even 1-2 weeks in advance, they could initiate measures to modify the severity of the outbreak. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention devotes significant resources to influenza surveillance, but by the time this information is published, it is 1-2 weeks old.

the beginning of the influenza season, we recruit a diverse group of health care workers with information about influenza activity. Each of the traders is given an educational grant of $100 with which to trade. This grant grows or shrinks over the course of the influenza season depending upon the accuracy of the individual trader's predictions. Potential traders include physicians, nurses, pharmacists, clinical microbiologists and epidemiologists.

The information from prediction markets would be available to anyone who wanted to log-on to our web site. The probabilities for different levels of future activity would be displayed in an easy-to-interpret graphical format. This information is updated with each new trade. Thus, the data is available in real time.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded our project a five-year (Aug 2005-July 2010), $1.1 million dollar grant to expand and further test the seasonal influenza prediction markets. In addition to expanding into a national influenza market, the project goals include markets to assess the effectivness of the current year's influenza vaccine and to help predict which influenza strains should be included in the subsequent year's vaccine.

The Avian Flu Market (AFM) was started as an international avian influenza barometer, providing policymakers and public health officials with important new information about the development and spread of avian flu worldwide. avian influenza market would not replace existing influenza surveillance systems nor would it eliminate the need for improvements to the existing systems.

The AFM will be a closed, invitation-only market with participants limited to doctors, nurses, researchers, epidemiologists, public health officials and other workers in health-care fields who have some knowledge of the virus' development. AFM participants will be recruited through the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) -- an international internet-based reporting system designed to distribute information about outbreaks of infectious diseases rapidly and globally.

The TCR uses this information to keep citizens, health care providers, researchers, health planners, and policy makers informed about the incidence of cancer in Tennessee. The registry publishes facts and responds to questions about cancer in the state, monitors cancer trends by looking for problems in specific groups, and promotes cancer research to find causes and cures that may save lives in the future.

We recruit doctors, nurses, researchers, epidemiologists, public health and other medical workers who have some knowledge of avian influenza activity. Traders in the avian influenza market will be members of the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED). Each of the traders is given an educational grant of with which to trade. This grant grows or shrinks depending upon the accuracy of the individual trader's predictions.

A vaccine is available for seasonal influenza; however, the effectiveness of each season's vaccine varies. If health officials and health care workers could accurately forecast influenza vaccine effectiveness, they could provide advance warning of a suboptimal vaccine and assist in preparedness. The generation of a consensus estimation of vaccine performance can be monitored to detect conditions that may signal suboptimal vaccine effectiveness.

If local health officials and health care workers could predict an outbreak, even 1-2 weeks in advance, they could initiate measures to modify the severity of the outbreak. accurate forecast of influenza activity would be helpful even 1-2 weeks in advance: measures could be initiated to modify the severity of the outbreak. For example, public health officials could allocate resources to increase vaccination rates among high-risk individuals and health care workers.

Influenza, commonly referred to as "the flu," is a contagious disease caused by the influenza virus. Each year, up to 60 million Americans get the flu. Resulting complications cause more than 200,000 hospitalizations and about 36,000 deaths in the U.S. each year.

The job information questionnaires completed during the Discover Phase were used to develop benchmark jobs. These benchmark jobs were compared to the external labor market. The chart below depicts the job level or category and the geographic and type/size of institutions used for the comparison.

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For more information about avian influenza in cats, see Avian influenza - Frequently asked questions (American Veterinary Medical Association) and H5N1 in Cats (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) While dogs are not usually susceptible to bird flu viruses, but because it was able to affect other carnivore species (e.g. cats, tigers, leopards, stone martens), it has raised concern that this particular strain of avian influenza A (H5N1) virus may be capable of infecting dogs.

Travel information can be found at the NHS Fit for Travel website, the National Travel Health Network or the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

The German Federal Ministry of Agriculture has set up a hotline for citizens with questions on avian influenza. It can be reached Monday to Friday between 9:00 and 17:00 on the telephone numbers 01888-529-4601 or -4602, -4603, -4604, -4605, -4606, -4607, -4608 and -4609.

Further information is available at the Public Health Agency of Canada's website at http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/influenza/index.html#avianflu

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