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Singapore Weekly Infectious Disease Bulletin 21 Jun - 27 Jun 2009
Thursday, 02 July 2009; Submitted By: Singapore Communication Focal Point (1), Singapore
This report from Minstry of
Health,
Singapore on weekly publication of statistics on local infectious disease situation.
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Indonesia announced the first two confirmed cases of Pandemic H1N1
Thursday, 25 June 2009; Submitted By: Indonesia Communication Focal Point (1), Indonesia
Indonesia announced the first two confirmed cases of Pandemic H1N1 2009
virus on 24 June 2009. These were cases imported from other countries. A
number of activities have been undertaken in Indonesia to prepare for
pandemic influenza and to enable a comprehensive response.
After the initial detection of the H1N1 virus globally, and before the
spread of the virus to Indonesia, the following measures were undertaken
by the Ministry of Health to prepare the country for response:
1. Strengthening Port Health Office surveillance capacity.
2. Hospital Preparedness
3. Preparing health facilities and diagnosis capacity.
4. Preparing logistics and supplies, including medicine and personal
protective equipment (PPE)
5. Strengthening influenza like illness (ILI) surveillance
6. Community communication, information and education activities
Once Indonesia detected the two imported cases of Pandemic H1N1 2009,
the Ministry of Health immediately implemented the following steps:
1. Strengthen the awareness of all health personnel and authorities. On
25 June 2009, the Minister of Health issued a Circular to
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Singapore Weekly Infectious Disease Bulletin 14 Jun - 20 Jun 2009
Tuesday, 23 June 2009; Submitted By: Singapore Communication Focal Point (1), Singapore
This report from Minstry of
Health,
Singapore on weekly publication of statistics on local infectious disease situation.
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Singapore Weekly Infectious Disease Bulletin 7 Jun - 13 Jun 2009
Tuesday, 23 June 2009; Submitted By: Singapore Communication Focal Point (1), Singapore
This report from Minstry of
Health,
Singapore on weekly publication of statistics on local infectious disease situation.
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Singapore Weekly Infectious Disease Bulletin 31 May - 6 Jun 2009
Tuesday, 23 June 2009; Submitted By: Singapore Communication Focal Point (1), Singapore
This report from Minstry of
Health,
Singapore on weekly publication of statistics on local infectious disease situation.
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WHO chief calls for fairness in global health policies
Tuesday, 16 June 2009; Submitted By: Administrator
UNITED NATIONS, June 15 (Xinhua) -- The World Health
Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan Monday urged senior government
officials to place "fairness" at the core of decisions to protect the most
vulnerable against major worldwide crises.
Global warming, hikes in fuel and food prices, the
economic meltdown and now the A/H1N1 influenza pandemic hit hardest in
developing countries, Chan told senior government officials and international
experts attending the Secretary-General's Forum on Advancing Global Health.
There
is growing recognition that "blind faith in economic growth and gain
as the be-all, end-all, cure-for-all has been misplaced," Chan
told the meeting at UN Headquarters in New York.
"Fairness, I believe, is at the heart of our
ambitions in global health," said Chan. A failure to put equality at the center
of health-care policy decisions is "one reason why the world is in such a great
big mess."
Characterizing globalization as a rising tide that
lifts "the big boats, but swamps or sinks many smaller ones," Chan said that the
financial
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WHO declares A/H1N1 pandemic, raising alert level to highest
Friday, 12 June 2009; Submitted By: Administrator
GENEVA, June 11 (Xinhua) -- The World Health
Organization (WHO) on Thursday raised its pandemic alert to the highest level of
six, formally declaring that the widely spreading A/H1N1 influenza has developed
into a global pandemic.
"On the basis of available evidence, the scientific
criteria for an influenza pandemic have been met. I have therefore decided to
raise the level of pandemic alert from phase 5 to phase 6, the world is now at
the start of the 2009 pandemic," WHO Director-general Margaret Chan told a news
briefing in Geneva.
Chan made the announcement following consultations
with leading influenza experts around the world through a teleconference, and
amid signs that community-level transmission of the new H1N1 flu virus has
occurred in a number of countries outside of North America, including Australia,
Chile, Britain, Spain and Japan.
Chan stressed, however, that governments and the
public should have a right understanding of the word "pandemic," which mainly
reflects the geographic spread of the virus, instead of the severity of the
disease it has
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WHO 'very close' to declaring a pandemic
Wednesday, 10 June 2009; Submitted By: Administrator
Jun 9, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – The World Health
Organization (WHO) is getting "very close" to declaring that a novel
H1N1 influenza pandemic has arrived, but the agency wants to spend more
time preparing the world for that step so it won't cause panic, a WHO
official said today.
In view of the virus's spread in
Australia, far from the epidemic epicenter in North America, "We are
getting really very close to knowing that we're in a pandemic situation
or declaring that we're in a pandemic situation," Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the
WHO's assistant director-general for health security and environment,
said at a press briefing today.
But before declaring a pandemic, the
WHO wants to do more to reduce the risk of panic and overreactions such
as trade embargoes, border closures, travel restrictions, and a flood
of "worried well" people in hospital emergency departments, Fukuda
said.
"One of the things we're really
focusing on right now is to help countries, help institutions, help the
media really understand what are pandemics and provide as much
information as possible so we reduce any adverse effects . . . and
prevent misunderstanding that may lead to
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