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What will happen without the adaptation of existing standards?
mitigation plans will fall short of health and human rights obligations in outbreak response
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What is essential when pandemics threaten vulnerable populations?
Transparent and credible information-sharing mechanisms
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What is a necessary component of effective health governance?
Diplomacy bridging long-standing mistrust of public health and biomedical interventions and facilitating engagement with contentious actors
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Approximately how many people died during the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic?
During the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, between 21 and 25 million people died of influenza worldwide.
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What social and economic factors contributed to the large fatality rate in the 1918 influenza pandemic?
Malnutrition weakened the human immune system and made a person more vulnerable to infectious diseases like tuberculosis and influenza, therefore, hunger and malnutrition were indirectly responsible for millions of deaths in the world in that period of time.
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What problems were faced by medical staff during the 1918 epidemic?
in 1918 and 1919, physicians and nurses almost had nothing in their hands to help individuals who were infected by influenza viruses. T
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What helpful drugs are available now to control the disease or to provide palliative care for influenza patients?
Today, although we still do not have very effective, powerful, and practical anti-influenza drugs available, we at least have some improved, useful, and helpful anti-viral drugs like zanamivir, and effective, convenient anti-cold medicines like Tylenol or Advil.
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How has the mortality rate due to influenza declined in USA over past decades?
in the United States of America, the influenza classed mortality rate declined from 10.2/100,000 in the 1940s to 0.56/100,000 in the 1990s; and the classed mortality rates of 1957-1958 and 1968-1969 influenza pandemics were not remarkably different from the non-pandemic seasons
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Is there an Influenza vaccine?
We do not have a universal vaccine to prevent all influenza virus infections, but we can make effective vaccines to a specific influenza virus strain in a short time.
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for the 2009 influenza pandemic, what were the case fatality rates?
that most cases of H1N1 influenza A virus infections were mild, the symptomatic case fatality rate was only 0.005% in New Zealand (16) ; and in New York City, the case fatality rate was 0.0094-0.0147% for persons ≥65 years old, and for those of 0-17 years old, the case fatality rate was 0.0008-0.0012% (17) .
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What factors would contribute now to the faster rates of influenza infections?
Nowadays, we travel faster, and we travel more frequently and globally, and we have more complicated social activities and lifestyles, thereby increasing the chances of viral mutation; and we realize that influenza viruses are even easier to reassort, recombine, and mutate in nature than many other RNA viruses.
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What factors would be responsible in future for the prevention of an Influenza pandemic?
influenza virus infections are controllable and preventable, with the increased population health and immunity, with the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System, and with standard/routine epidemiological practices, and with new effective anti-viral agents and vaccines in production in the future.
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What was the detected fatality rate of H7N9 Avian flu?
the detected 32.14% (45/140, one case from Taiwan, and one case from Hong Kong) (22, 23).
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Why would real case fatality rate for the H7N9 be lower than detected rate?
most people usually think a common cold is a very common and normal occurrence, and they don't take flu-like illnesses seriously. In most situations, they would just stay home and take some medicines. Only those who have very severe flu-like symptoms would see doctors, and thereby be detected and diagnosed, accordingly...
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