Two day event in which scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines working in the field of interpersonal communication and social interaction will be drawn together to discuss face-to-face relationships, mediated contexts, health and care contexts, conflict situations, organisational and professional, contexts, intercultural contexts, language and social interaction.
Location:Belfast, Northern Ireland
Organized by:European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
The Centre for Infectious Disease Control (CIb) of the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) has compiled a chronological overview of that country’s response to the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic.
ECDC’s Emergency Operations Centre was built in 2007 at the request of the European Parliament, with funds voted to ECDC by Parliament specifically for that purpose. The highlight of the 1-2 September visit to ECDC by members of Parliament’s health committee was therefore a visit to the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC).
A delegation from the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) will be visiting ECDC on 1-2 September.
This paper and review from a Singapore-based group compared results obtained for estimating rates of new infections during the 2009 pandemic. They derived rates from paired specimens from the same patient (serum cohort approach), cross-sectional serological surveys, rates of unconfirmed syndromic influenza-like-illness (ILI) obtained from primary care physicians in sentinel general practices, and combined clinical repos with laboratory confirmed samples.
This collection of article is intended to clarify the issues that arose, during the 2009 pandemic around definitions of the pandemic term, both in a theoretical and practical way.
A multinational European team has reported the isolation of a human monoclonal antibody that can seemingly bind to and neutralize representative of all the known sub-types classes of influenza A haemagglutinins (HAs). This is the first such report of such an antibody.
A group of international experts came together by a joint initiative by ECDC and CDC, to create a standardised international terminology to describe and classify resistant bacteria.