Avian influenza

GUIDELINES - General quidelines - Diagnosis and treatment - Food safety - Infection control - Surveillance - Vaccines and antivirals Full list ARCHIVES - Situation update archives - Number of human cases archives PANDEMIC INFLUENZA - WHO activities in avian influenza and pandemic influenza preparedness - Pandemic preparedness plan - Current WHO phase of pandemic alert - WHO Global Influenza Programme ANIMAL HEALTH - Food and Agriculture Organization - World Organisation for Animal Health

MAPS Global and country maps MEDIA CENTRE 23 October 2007 Projected supply of pandemic influenza vaccine sharply increases Media contacts, news releases, multimedia DIRECTOR-GENERAL'S SPEECHES 13 June 2007 Pandemics: working together for an effective and equitable response More speeches MEETINGS 25 April 2007, Geneva, Switzerland Increasing the access of developing countries to H5N1 and other potentially pandemic vaccines Full text Latest meetings

Human cases of avian influenza A(H5N1) in North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan, October–November 2007
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Options for the use of human H5N1 influenza vaccines and the WHO H5N1 vaccine stockpile
May 2008
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Antigenic and genetic characteristics of H5N1 viruses and candidate H5N1 vaccine viruses developed for potential use as human vaccines
September 2008
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Tracking A(H5N1) avian influenza viruses
Influenza tracking system launched
Influenza Virus Tracking System
Viruses shared with WHO from 2003-2007

Process of influenza vaccine virus selection and development
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Working paper: Patent issues related to influenza viruses and their genes
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H5N1 avian influenza: Timeline of major events
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