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Yellow fever - Threat to Asia

 

In view of China instituting yellow fever vaccination for its aid workers traveling to Sudan, and health checks on citizens returning from there, because of the recent epidemic there, the following 2 relevant slide presentations have been uploaded to the Supercourse site http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/*:

 

Yellow fever: threat to Asia -

http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec49641/index.htm

 

YELLOW FEVER: DRAFT CHECKLIST FOR NATIONAL & REGIONAL CONTINGENCY PLAN:

http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec49631/index.htm "

 

Provided by:

Jack Woodall, PhD

 

Dr. Woodall is a member, One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team, and manager of the ProMED page http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/promed.php of the One Health Initiative website.

Also, please see “One Medicine/One Health”: Personal Reflections of a True Believer http://www.pitt.edu/~super4/33011-34001/33431.pdf by Thomas P. Monath, MD.  Dr. Monath is a member of the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team.

*Supercourse is a repository of lectures on global health and prevention designed to improve the teaching of prevention. Supercourse has a network of over 56,000 scientists in 174 countries who are sharing for free a library of 5430 lectures in 31 languages. The Supercourse has been produced at the WHO Collaborating Center University of Pittsburgh, with core developers Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D., Faina Linkov, Ph.D. and Eugene Shubnikov, M.D.

The Supercourse site is highly recommended by the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team: Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP ▪ Bruce Kaplan, DVM ▪ Thomas P. Monath, MD ▪ Jack Woodall, PhD ▪ Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH.