Alan Sipress: The Fatal Strain

Strategic Health Operations Center (SHOC)

Struchesky, Elizabeth

Sudarat Keyuraphun

Sumatra outbreak. See Indonesia

Supari, Siti Fadilah

Indonesia sample sharing conflict

writings of

Suparno

swans, and disease transmission

swine flu

formation, genetic factors

H5N1, relationship to

hospital ER visits

prediction, impossibility of

symptoms

and brain

Hong Kong cases

Indonesian cases

lungs, devastation of

in poultry

Spanish flu (1918)

Thailand cases

Vietnamese cases

Tamiflu

in emergency plan

noncompliance

resistance to

Taniguchi, Dr. Kiyosu

Tashiro, Dr. Masato

Taubenberger, Jeffrey

Thailand

chicken farming, infection risks

chickens, symptoms/death

cockfighting

culling

duck farming, infection risks

economic boom

first human fatalities

flu victims, symptoms

H5N1 identified

human-to-human transmission

livestock revolution

poultry, devastation by flu

Prasert investigation

prevention efforts

public, lack of information to

rice farming

transmission, points of origin

wet markets

WHO, lack of disclosure to

Thaksin Shinawatra

Tiet canh vit

Tinh, Nguyen Duc

Tonle Sap, Cambodia

transmission of virus

bird flu. See bird flu transmission

SARS. See severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

Troedsson, Dr. Hans

Trung, Duc

Tsang, Dr. Thomas

Tuan, Nguyen Sy

turkey, and bird flu

United States

chicken farming, disease prevention

emergency preparedness, lack of

flu outbreak (2003)

health care system, limitations of

HHS preparedness system

Spanish flu (1918)

Urbani, Dr. Carlo

Uyeki, Dr. Timothy

CDC, role at

Indonesia investigation

professional credentials

Vietnam investigation

vaccination

adjuvants

of birds, limitations of

controversial methods

Indonesia program

Indonesia sample sharing conflict

Vietnam, development of

Van, Dr. Nguyen Thi Tuong

Van, Dr. Nguyen Thu

Van Dyke, Anne

Vietnam

cockfighting

culling

duck blood, recipe with

economic boom

Fukuda investigation

H5N1 identified

H5NI, spread from China

Horby investigation

human-to-human transmission

illegal activities, documenting

initial cases

pandemic risk (2005), investigation of

poultry, devastation of

poultry workers, lack of protection

prevention, neglect of

retreat and reemergence of flu

shifting pattern (2005)

symptoms of flu

transmission, points of origin

Uyeki investigation

vaccine, development of

wedding party case

WHO, lack of cooperation with

WHO actions

Virus. See genetics, bird flu virus; influenza virus; mutation of virus

Vui, Nguyen Xuan

Wat Phnom, merit birds

Webster, Dr. Robert

bird flu transmission to

Wei, Lessie

West Nile Virus

wet markets, dangers of

WildAid

wild-game markets, and SARS

witch doctors, traditional remedies, use of

Wood, Dr. John

Wook, Dr. Lee Jong

World Health Organization (WHO)

Alert and Response Operations

alert levels

Chan as director general

China, lack of cooperation with

command center

critics of

in disease-control network

emergency planning

Fukuda as influenza chief

Global Influenza Surveillance Network

global strike force

Indonesia, lack of cooperation with

and Indonesia outbreak

International Health Regulations

local politics, interference from

origin/development of

pandemic risk (2005), investigation of

Prasert as consultant

SARS, response to

SHOC

Stohr, role of

and Thailand outbreak

Vietnam, lack of cooperation with

and Vietnam outbreak

World War I,

Wu Chung House

Yan Li, Dr.

Yanzhong Huang

Yersin, Alexandre

Yi Guan

professional credentials

Qinghai Lake/Bird Island investigation

research, halted by government

and SARS investigation

Yuenyong Opakul

Zhang Libin

Zoonotic diseases

and agricultural practices

increase in

plague, origin and spread of

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