{"id":233,"date":"2009-05-02T08:44:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T22:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2009-05-02T08:48:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T22:48:58","slug":"swine-flu-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Swine Flu books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though the WHO has renamed Swine Flu “Influenza A H1N1<\/strong>“, I suspect the popular name will remain Swine Flu. The National Academies Press have a number of books that can be downloaded for free as PDF files (you need to sign in with your email address) that are useful, including:<\/p>\n

“In 1976, a small group of soldiers at Fort Dix were infected with a swine flu virus that was deemed similar to the virus responsible for the great 1918-19 world-wide flu pandemic. The U.S. government initiated an unprecedented effort to immunize every American against the disease. While a qualified success in terms of numbers reached-more than 40 million Americans received the vaccine-the disease never reappeared. The program was marked by controversy, delay, administrative troubles, legal complications, unforeseen side effects and a progressive loss of credibility for public health authorities. In the waning days of the flu season, the incoming Secretary of what was then the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Joseph Califano, asked Richard Neustadt and Harvey Fineberg to examine what happened and to extract lessons to help cope with similar situations in the future. The result was their report, The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease<\/strong><\/a>“<\/em><\/p>\n

Another free to download book that strongly argues against surgical or medical masks as protection against Influenza A (published 2008) is Preparing for an Influenza Pandemic: Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare Workers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even though the WHO has renamed Swine Flu “Influenza A H1N1“, I suspect the popular name will remain Swine Flu. The National Academies Press have a number of books that can be downloaded for free as PDF files (you need to sign in with your email address) that are useful, including:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,20,25],"tags":[76,79,78,81,259,80,74],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infection-control","category-occupational-hygiene","category-respiratory-protection","tag-face-masks","tag-h1n1","tag-influenza","tag-ppe","tag-respiratory-protection","tag-surgical-masks","tag-swine-flu","czr-hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t