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A Disease Outbreak at a Global Scale - H1N1 Pandemic …
A Disease Outbreak at a Global Scale - H1N1 Pandemic
Including WHO
WHO:
Role in international strategies to combat disease:
Integrated patient centred care + prevention
Intensified research and innovation
Focus on serving those vulnerable to infection, poor healthcare access (migrants)
Role in predicting disease:
Role in gathering data:
Collects data from 194 countries
Publishes data every year - helps with health risks
Can see mortality rates from communicable and non- communicable diseases
Quality and completeness of data is highly variable
Role in research:
Role in support programmes:
Work with agencies + governments:
WHO background:
Est. 1948
Headquarters in Geneva
Works with the UN system
The spread of H1N1 - timeline:
12th April - 39yr old woman from Mexico, dies from an acute respiratory illness (declared as an isolated incident)
22nd April - Mexican health ministry issue a nationwide alert, samples sent off to Canada for testing
23rd - 24th April - Canadian authorities name is 'swine flu', Who makes the first disease outbreak announcement
25th April - Emergency committee of WHO meet in Geneva, declared a public health emergency, Mexico cases = 1300
27th April - Spain becomes first EU country to be infected, WHO raises alert level to phase 4 (community outbreaks)
29th April - First death outside of Mexico, WHO raises alert level to phase 5 (sustained human to human spread in x2 countries)
30th April - WHO announces disease cannot be caught by eating properly prepared pork
1st May - Major US airlines cut down services to Mexico, WHO notes 331 cases in 11 countries + warn traditional flu vaccines may not work, Mexico begins its 5 day lockdown
5th May - Mexico announces the re opening of uni, schools and day care centres, WHO says number of cases has passed 1000 globally
8th May - WHO says more than 2300 cases have been confirmed in 24 countries
19th May - 8000 confirmed cases in 40 countries, 74 fatalities
12th June - WHO declares it a pandemic
Describing the rate of the spread of H1N1:
Hierarchical diffusion - spread to areas of high connectivity first (America, EU), then to areas further away and lower connectivity (Cyprus, Japan)
International flights, trading caused spread
Expansion diffusion - disease stayed in Mexico whilst infecting other countries