Defining priorities: swine-origin H1N1 and the MDR-TB epidemic

While the media reported extensively on the novel influenza virus, WHO and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped using the term "swine flu" to prevent the collapse of the swine products market, WHO declared phase 5 (the current definition does not consider mortality), a...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. 373; no. 9681; p. 2108
Main Authors Migliori, Giovanni Battista, Sotgiu, Giovanni, Lange, Christoph, Macgregor-Skinner, Gavin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 20.06.2009
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Disease Outbreaks
Epidemics
Fatalities
Global Health
Health Priorities
Humans
Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype
Influenza, Human - epidemiology
Influenza, Human - prevention & control
Internal Medicine
Mass Media
Mortality
Population Surveillance
Priorities
Public health
Swine flu
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant - epidemiology
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant - prevention & control
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Summary:While the media reported extensively on the novel influenza virus, WHO and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped using the term "swine flu" to prevent the collapse of the swine products market, WHO declared phase 5 (the current definition does not consider mortality), and the World Health Assembly was shortened, rescheduling and then reintroducing the planned discussion on the MDR-TB emergency.
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61144-2