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2007 Bulletins

Bulletin No. 127 December 2007 (407kb Download)

• Why we make stupid decisions
• Gaza fuel shortage adding to health crisis
• Mega shelter arrangement in Oregon
• Chikungunya carries on spreading through Trojan Horses
• More H5N1 deaths and suggestions of human to human transmission
• Three different H5N1 variants reach Germany
• New software to aid early detection of infectious disease outbreaks
  
  

Bulletin No. 126 November 2007 (607kb Download)

• Lessons for Auckland in fire storm evacuation
• Thousands leave homes after storm surge fear
• Anyone for bird’s nest soup?
• English turkeys hit by avian flu again
• Death and destruction in PNG floods
• Cyclone Sidr slaps Bangladesh

Bulletin No. 125 October 2007 (457kb Download)

• Peak oil and health
• Financial flu fighters
• California’s mobile hospitals
• A collapsed bridge and troubled waters
• Database lists pandemic planning resources
• Random acts of reality
• Make physios part of your response team
• Surge hospitals and the standard of care

Bulletin No. 124 September 2007 (457kb Download)

• Using Freakonomics to Understand Human Behaviour
• Pandora and Bengkulu Art imitating reality
• Uniforms and Work wear: short sleeves are in, ties are out
• Sizing up SurvINZ
• Planning for Individual and Community Recovery: Principles for Psychosocial Support
• World Health Report 2007: International spread of disease threatens public health security
• Preparedness for An Influenza Pandemic in Africa
• Reduced sensitivity of H5N1 to Tamiflu

Bulletin No. 123 August 2007 (440kb Download)

• How clean is the fuel in your tank?
• Using Virtual games as a 'disease model'
• Cruikshank: aka Dungeons and Dragons
• Peru and Pandora Paternalistic government measures can lower community resilience
• NSW ambulance officers to treat non critical patients at home
• New St John Emergency Planning Advisors appointed
• Queensland in grip of influenza wave
• Scientists target vaccines against future strains of H5N1
• Hurricane Dean: Katrina on steroids

Bulletin No. 122 July 2007 (440kb Download)

• A local flood trumps bigger ones further away
• Electricity Commission Guidelines require action by DHBs
• New CDC Infection Control Guidelines
• Avian Flu Update
• Ethical values for a pandemic
• And now there is H7N2
• New law mandates no pets be left behind
• Nurses working alone risk assault

Bulletin No. 121 June 2007 (320kb Download)

• Buda’s Wagon: Birth of the Poor Man’s Air Force
• Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog
• Self Help Syndromic Surveillance: faulty alarm system or useful tool?
• Will Healthcare workers go to work during disasters?
• Swiss told to stock up on ‘Bird Flu” masks
• A Walking Tuberculosis Bomb
• The Bond Street Pump outbreak revisited
• Bioactive paper sheets and masks

Bulletin No. 120 May 2007 (412kb Download)

• Britain’s tsunami: just 400 years ago
• Nearly half of Californian Hospitals unprepared to seismic safety deadlines
• Bangladesh losing bird flu battle
• Field test finds low level of correct respirator fit
• Compensation wrangle over bird flu outbreak
• Poll shows many unready for public health crisis
• Rapid response crucial to containing flu pandemic

Bulletin No. 119 April 2007 (333kb Download)

• Risk increases as H5N1 splits in three
• Thousands doing unpaid overtime
• Destruction and Mayhem in Mogadishu
• The Solomon earthquake: one month on
• Afghan refugees denied health services
• Love your heart: A new resource for women
• Town water supply contaminated: 93 treated at hospitals
• Second WHO consultation on clinical aspects of human infection with avian influenza
• Surprising patterns in influenza spread in South America and Tropics

Bulletin No. 118 March 2007 (333kb Download)

• Why we make the decisions we do
• Influenza Vaccine effectiveness among US Military basic trainees
• No money in Bangladesh to cull chickens
• Vaccination offers new "prisoners dilemma" scenario
• Eighteen months after Katrina
• Ambulance Service Hazardous Response teams launched
• Half of NHS Ambulance Trusts missing response targets
• Pandemic planning framework for social care agencies

Bulletin No. 117 February 2007 (428kb Download)

• A resilience case study: The Abbess of Barking and a fishy tale
• Chikungunya: risk of imported transmission
• Respect for Nature as Cornerstone to Community Resilience:
  The view from Katrina Ground Zero
• London bombings key long term health issue
• The African Regional Health Report: The Health of the People
• New US Bird Flu Plan sets response levels
• Don’t be a goat: People will help others
• H5N1 immunity for the Over 40s
• Where have all the wild birds gone?

Bulletin No. 116 January 2007 (497kb Download)

• Spring of Fear: The Ontario SARS inquiry
• The WHO issues pharmacological guidelines for treating avian flu virus
• C difficile now endemic in NHS
• Molecular anatomy of Influenza virus detailed
• Wellingtonian’s say “its our fault”
• Natural Disasters and Epidemics
• Deadly tornadoes sweep through Louisiana