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- Swine flu experts and big pharma: no conspiracy
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7 June 2010
New Scientist's Deborah McKenzie reacts on the latest round of accusations surrounding the swine flu pandemic. Two authors of the journal BMJ claimed the scientists who advised WHO to declare H1N1 swine flu a pandemic were in the pay of companies that stood to profit from the resulting sales of antiviral drugs and vaccines. Read Deborah McKenzie's reaction here. Flu experts rebut conflict claims. Declan Butlter, Nature, reacts on the latest round of accusations surrounding the swine flu pandemic. Read here.
- Fourth ESWI workshop for Public Health Officials: 17 September 2010
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23 March 2010
The fourth edition of ESWI's influenza workshops for public health officials will take place on Friday 17 September 2010. Venue of the meeting is the Hotel Le Châtelain, Rue du Châtelain 17, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. More information about the programme/faculty as well as a registration module is now available on www.eswiworkshop.org
- ESWI launches Q&A booklet on the A(H1N1) pandemic
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16 February 2010
Pandemic preparedness measures taken by national governments in Europe are now the subject of critical debate.
Obviously, such a discussion must be based on correct and science-based information. To provide this information, ESWI organized the third edition of its Pandemic Preparedness Workshop for Public Health Officials on 22 January in Brussels.
A summary of the lectures and the discussions held at the workshop have now been compiled in a brochure. In an easily accessible Q&A format, this magazine elaborates on pandemic preparedness as seen from the scientists point of view. The text can be distributed and copied freely. Additional questions and feedback are always welcome.
- Faked Pandemic? WHO responds
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15 January 2010
Now that the impact of the H1N1 influenza pandemic is at the low end of what was expected, it is argued that the pandemic preparedness measures taken by EU member states were out of proportion. "But I want to emphasize that the world is going through a real pandemic. The description of it as fake, is both wrong and is irresponsible", says Dr Keiji Fukuda, Special Adviser to the Director-Generalon Pandemic Influenza at WHO, in a virtual press conference on 14 January 2010. The transcript of the entire press conference on WHO's position is available here.
- ESWI's Third Pandemic Preparedness Workshop for Public Health Officials on 22 January 2010
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30 November 2009
ESWI's Third Pandemic Preparedness Workshop for Public Health Officials will be held on 22 January 2010. Venue of the meeting will again be the Hotel Le Châtelain, Rue du Châtelain 17, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. More information and a registration module will soon be available on www.eswiworkshop.org
- Online edu course on influenza by ERS and ESWI
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10 November 2009
To further spread the knowledge about the impact of influenza and the available prevention strategies, the European Respiratory Society, in collaboration with ESWI, organised a series of four separate online lectures as part of the ERS school program. These interactive sessions have been captured and are now available for consultation. Kindly click on the session title to access the recording.
Clinical spectrum of Influenza - by Prof Peter Openshaw and Jake Dunning
Disease, epidemiology, diagnosis and prevention - by Prof Arnold Monto
Assessing vaccine safety, efficacy and effectiveness - by Prof Kristin L. Nichol
Influenza A(H1N1v) pandemic: where are we going? - by Prof Ab Osterhaus
- La grippe : ENNEMIE INTIME
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11 October 2009
Prof Claude Hannoun, founding father of ESWI and current ESWI adviser, looks back on 60 years of influenza research in a brand new book. It is a personal and scientific travel spanning nine decades from the outbreak of Spanish flu (Prof Hannoun is the nephew of a Spanish flu victim) to the present day pandemic of H1N1 influenza. The book (in French) can be ordered here.
- ESWI's Second Pandemic Preparedness Workshop for Public Health Officials
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2 October 2009
On 25 September 2009, over 30 public health officials representing 15 European countries assembled in Hotel Le Châtelain in Brussels at the occasion of ESWI's Second Pandemic Preparedness Workshop for Public Health Officials.
- ERS Online Course on Influenza, jointly organised with ESWI
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23 September 2009
To educate European Respiratory Society members about the impact of influenza, ESWI set up an online course.
- Press release: EU coordination should enhance influenza pandemic preparedness
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19 June 2009
Only a EU coordinated purchasing policy of influenza pandemic vaccines will ensure equitable distribution of pandemic vaccines in the European Union and will help WHO to acquire a stockpile of pandemic vaccines for distribution in developing countries. ESWI therefore issued a press statement calling for an enhanced EU coordination.
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