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2006 Bulletins

Bulletin No. 115 December 2006 (638kb Download)

• Sudan, Darfur and Oil
• N95 or surgical masks: An expert opinion
• Reaction to an influenza outbreak: A case study
• How to Punch Someone and Stay Friends: An Inductive Theory of Simulation
• Katrina fraud over $1 billion
• A free pig, or a pig in a poke?
• Emergency Response Patient Tracking Model

Bulletin No. 114 November 2006 (538kb Download)

• Water water everywhere but not enough to drink
• Disagreement over new H5N1 strain
• Aerosol transmission and N95 masks
• FDA warning on the use of Tamiflu
• Preparing nurses for emergency response
• Bird flu expert is new WHO Director General

Bulletin No. 113 October 2006 (480kb Download)

• Treating wicked risk
• Disaster appeals do more harm than good says MSF
• Participation inequality: or lurkers, workers and shirkers
• Forget Tamiflu: Lock up your kids
• Japan holds huge quake drill
• End disaster excepionalism say critics

Bulletin No. 112 September 2006 (480kb Download)

• Disaster capitalism: making money out of misery
• Popeye vs. E coli
• Chikungunya reaches England
• Research suggests H5N1 virus replicates more strongly than common cold
• Fitting special needs populations into your emergency plans
• Low key 2006 Hurricane season so far
• Reassessing psychosocial interventions

Bulletin No. 111 August 2006 (540kb Download)

• Health Care on the Gulf Coast One Year On
• Twenty square kilometres of hot mud
• Bird Flu: Major threat or fish and chip paper?
• Tsunami Symposium Summary
• The Weather is bad everywhere
• Major UK hospitals ill prepared to cope with a major incident

Bulletin No. 110 July 2006 (476kb Download)

• Poverty and newly emergent diseases: The chicken that lays the curate’s egg
• Seven days of flood, fire and brimstone
• The economic impact of a pandemic
• Healthcare in evacuation centres
• Upcoming Events 8 Editor’s Soapbox

Bulletin No. 109 June 2006 (395kb Download)

• Yogyakarta deployment
• psychosocial support for earthquake victims
• aid workers and locals struggle with language
• Merapi deceives yet again
• Mumps update
• Evolution of th

Bulletin No. 108 May 2006 (450kb Download)

• Indonesia dealt a disaster full hand
• Indonesia avian flu update
• Public opinion formed by media
• Providing safe care in emergencies
• upcoming events
• Editor's Soapbox

Bulletin No. 106 March 2006 (550kb Download)

• Bird flu reaches Zealand
• Some other contretemps to keep an eye on
• What's in a word
• Fines for threats to NHS staff
• Chikungunya fever flourishing
• Not if, but when: Adapting to natural hazards in the Pacific Island region

Bulletin No. 105 February 2006 (550kb Download)

• Bird Flu: A modern day Hydra
• The hidden killer - the effects of 9/11 lingers on
• It's time for grass roots pandemic planning
• Aceh post earthquake/tsunami health needs assessment
• Economics of Tamiflu stockpiling for an influenza pandemic
• Media attention fuelled by self interest

Bulletin No. 104 January 2006 (500kb Download)

• Understanding H5N1 and Enzootic Influenza
• Maplecroft Pandemic Risk Index
• Is Ring Fencing Viable
• Resilience, what is the bottom line?
• Avian Influenza: Communicating the risk
• American EDs get C- rating