Syllabus H 542 Introduction to Public History Monday, 6:00pm-8 ::
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML Assessment of Nonpharmaceutical Disease Containment Strategies Employed by. Selected U.S. Communities During the Second Wave of the 1918-1920 Influenza
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Nonpharmaceutical influenza mitigation strategies, US communities, 1918-1920 pandemic (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol12no12/06-0506.htm)
From Emerg Infect Dis, published online Nov 2 Visit link... (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol12no12/06-0506.htm)
eInfluenza Review::
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLMarkel H, Stern AM, Navarro JA, Michaelsen JR, Monto AS, DiGiovanni C. Nonpharmaceutical influenza mitigation · strategies, US communities, 1918-1920
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Thanks CIDRAP.
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Most important, these communities enacted a policy we have termed protective sequestration, or the measures taken by the authorities to protect a defined and still-healthy population from infection before it reaches that population. These measures include the following: 1) prohibitions on members of the community from leaving the site; 2) prohibitions against visitors from entering a circumscribed perimeter; 3) typically placing in quarantine those visitors who are allowed to enter for a period of time before admission; and 4) if available, taking advantage of geographic barriers, such as an island or remote location....
Finally, these communities had the advantage of early warnings to prepare their populations. Both tracked influenza's westward movement from August to September and, unlike communities along the East Coast, could implement protective health strategies before cases appeared at their doorsteps....
Conclusions
Influenza Report 2006::
Strategies for containing an emerging influenza pandemic in Southeast Asia. .. Nonpharmaceutical interventions for pandemic influenza, national and
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First, protective sequestration, if enacted early enough in the pandemic, crafted so as to encourage the compliance of the population involved, and continued for the lengthy time period in which the area is at risk, stands the best chance of guarding against infection. Second, available data from the second wave of the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic fail to show that any other NPI (apart from protective sequestration) was, or was not, effective in preventing the spread of the virus. .....
This is a little off topic from the thread, but having just read a book about the 1918 Pandemic, I was struck by the fact the first two waves occurred outside the traditional flu season -- from spring to fall.
Also, it took less than a year for the virus to spread around the world -- this during a period when slow moving ships and trains were the only way to travel transcontinentally.
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