WER 2004 Index
17 December 2004, vol. 79, 51-52 (pp 453–460)
Note to travellers
Index, Volume 79, 2004,Nos. 1-52
Index of countries/areas
Notifications of diseases subject to the Regulations
A new model for child survival in Africa
International Health Regulations
Full text
10 December 2004, vol. 79, 50 (pp 441–452)
Outbreak News:
– Cholera, Nigeria
Global situation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, end 2004
Two AIDS medicines back on WHO prequalification list
Influenza
WHO web sites on infectious diseases
Renewal of paid subscriptions
International Health Regulations
Full text
3 December 2004, vol. 79, 49 (pp 433–440)
Outbreak News:
– Yellow fever, Burkina Faso
World AIDS Day –
1 December 2004
Ebola haemorrhagic fever –
Fact sheet revised in May
2004
Renewal of paid subscriptions
Corrigendum
International Health
Regulations
Full text
26 November 2004, vol. 79, 48 (pp 425-432)
Contents
Acute flaccid paralysis surveillance: a global platform for detecting and responding to priority infectious diseases
Influenza
International Health Regulations
Full text
19 November 2004, vol. 79, 47 (pp 417-424)
Outbreak News:
– Cholera, Senegal – update
Lymphatic filariasis: progress of disability prevention activities
Renewal of paid subscriptions
International Health Regulations
Full text
12 November 2004, vol. 79, 46 (pp 409–416)
Assessment of neonatal
tetanus elimination
in Rwanda
Performance of acute flaccid
paralysis (AFP) surveillance
and incidence of poliomyelitis,
2003–2004
Full text
5 November 2004, vol. 79, 45 (pp 401–408)
Outbreak news:
– Cholera, Senegal
Conclusions and recommendations
of the Ad Hoc
Advisory Committee
on Poliomyelitis Eradication,
Geneva, 21-22 September
2004
Influenza
WHO web sites on infectious
diseases
International Health
Regulations
Full text
29 October 2004, vol. 79, 44 (pp 393-400)
Outbreak news:
– Avian influenza, Thailand
Laboratory surveillance for wild and vaccine-derived polioviruses, January 2003–June 2004
New WHO 5 Keys Strategy for safer food
Influenza
Corrigendum
International Health Regulations
Full text
22 October 2004, vol. 79, 43 (pp 385-392)
Influenza in the world
Fifth meeting of the Steering Committee on Immunization Safety
International Health Regulations
Full text
15 October 2004, vol. 79, 42 (pp 377–384)
Avian influenza, Thailand
Tenth Informal Consultation on the Global Polio Laboratory Network, 6–8 September 2004
Food safety regulators meet in Bangkok, Thailand
International Health Regulations
WHO web sites on infectious diseases – update
Full text
8 October 2004, vol. 79, 41 (pp 369–376)
Recommended composition
of influenza virus vaccines for
use in the 2005 influenza
season
Human African
trypanosomiasis: emergency
action in southern Sudan
Influenza
International Health
Regulations
Full text
1 October 2004, vol. 79, 40 (pp 357–368)
Outbreak News:
– Cholera, Chad – update
– Hepatitis E, Chad – update
– Hepatitis E, Sudan –
update
Report on the mid-term
assessment of microfilaraemia
reduction in sentinel sites
of 13 countries
of the Global Programme
to Eliminate Lymphatic
Filariasis
Global distribution
of influenza vaccines,
2000–2003
Revised WHO drinking-water
guidelines to help prevent
water-related outbreaks and
disease
International Health
Regulations
Full text
24 September 2004, vol. 79, 39 (pp 349–356)
Outbreak News
– Hepatitis E, Chad – update
Progress towards global
poliomyelitis eradication:
preparation for the oral
poliovirus vaccine cessation
era
Antibiotics in the management
of shigellosis
International Health
Regulations
Full text
17 September 2004, vol. 79, 38 (pp 341-348)
Outbreak News:
– Hepatitis E, Sudan – update
– Yellow fever, Venezuela
Dracunculiasis eradication programme: status during January – July 2004
Prevention of measles deaths in Darfur, Sudan
International Health Regulations
Full text
10 September 2004, vol. 79, 37 (pp 329–340)
Outbreak News:
– Cholera, Chad
– Hepatitis E, Chad – update
– Rabies, France
Performance of acute flaccid
paralysis (AFP) surveillance
and incidence of poliomyelitis,
2003–2004
Special campaigns to
eliminate leprosy: improving
services
Corrigendum
Influenza activity
WHO web sites on infectious
diseases
International Health
Regulations
Full text
3 September 2004, vol. 79, 36 (pp 321-328)
Outbreak News:
– Hepatitis E, Chad – update
– Hepatitis E, Sudan
Overview of the WHO
framework for monitoring and
evaluating surveillance and
response systems for
communicable diseases
Wider participation required
in HIV vaccine clinical trials
International Health
Regulations
Full text
27 August 2004, vol. 79, 35 (pp 313–320)
Outbreak news
– Hepatitis E, Chad
Hepatitis E fact sheet
(revised August 2004)
Progress towards poliomyelitis
eradication in Egypt, January
2003 to June 2004
WHO action in Afghanistan
aims to control debilitating
leishmaniasis
International Health
Regulations
Full text
20 August 2004, vol. 79, 34 (pp 309-312)
Human cases of avian influenza: situation in Viet Nam as of 18 August 2004
Onchocerciasis (river blindness) Report from the thirteenth InterAmerican Conference on Onchocerciasis, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
International Health Regulations
Full text
13 August 2004, vol. 79, 33 (pp 301-308)
Human plague
in 2002 and 2003
NISN Statement on antiviral
resistance in influenza viruses
International health
Regulations
Full text
6 August 2004, vol. 79, 32 (pp 289-300)
Outbreak News: – Global Polio Eradication Initiative, Nigeria
Avian influenza – assessment of the situation as of 30 July 2004
Validation of neonatal tetanus elimination in Andhra Pradesh, India
African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness – fact-sheet
Full text
30 July 2004, vol. 79, 31 (pp 281-288)
Cholera, 2003
WHO cholera information
sources on the web
International Health
Regulations
Full text
23 July 2004, vol. 79, 30 (pp 273-280)
Outbreak News:
– Shigellosis in Sudan
Progress towards poliomyelitis eradication in Afghanistan and Pakistan, January 2003 to May 2004
Influenza
International Health Regulations
WHO web sites on infectious diseases
Full text
16 July 2004, vol. 79, 29 (pp 265-272)
Avian influenza – Current evaluation of risks to humans from H5N1 following recent reports
Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety, 10–11 June 2004
Influenza
Corrigendum
International Health Regulations
Full text
9 July 2004, vol. 79, 28 (pp 253-264)
Outbreak News:
– Ebola haemorrhagic fever in south Sudan – update on importations
– Poliomyelitis eradication in Africa
Hepatitis B vaccines
Cambodia protects 75% of children against parasites
International Health Regulations
Full text
2 July 2004, vol. 79, 27 (pp 245-252)
Outbreak News:
– Poliomyelitis: imported case in Sudan, situation in northern Nigeria
Setting up an early warning system for epidemic-prone diseases in the Darfur humanitarian crisis
Twenty-five years of multidrug therapy for leprosy
International Health Regulations
Full text
25 June 2004, vol. 79, 26 (pp 237-244)
Outbreak News:
– Cholera, Cameroon
– Ebola haemorrhagic fever, south Sudan – update
– Leptospirosis, Kenya
Index, Volume 79, 2004:
Subject index
Index of countries/areas
Notifications of diseases subject to the Regulations
Progress towards sustainable measles mortality reduction – South-East Asia Region, 1999–2002
International Health Regulations
Full text
18 June 2004, vol. 79, 25 (pp 229-236)
Outbreak News
– Ebola haemorrhagic fever,
south Sudan – update
Progress towards global
eradication of poliomyelitis,
2003 and January–April 2004
Dracunculiasis eradication
Influenza
International Health
Regulations
Full text
11 June 2004, vol. 79, 24 (pp 221-228)
Outbreak News:
– Ebola haemorrhagic fever,
south Sudan – update
– Salmonella enteritidis,
United States
Assessment of neonatal
tetanus elimination in Eritrea
Influenza
WHO web sites
International Health
Regulations
Full text
4 June 2004, vol. 79, 23 (pp 213-220)
Outbreak News:
– Ebola haemorrhagic fever, south Sudan – update
– Yellow fever, Burkina Faso – update
Completion of a national laboratory inventory for global wild poliovirus containment, United States, November 2003
Performance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance and incidence of poliomyelitis, 2003–2004
International Health Regulations
Full text
28 May 2004, vol. 79, 22 (pp 205-212)
Outbreak News:
– Ebola haemorrhagic fever, south Sudan
Wild poliovirus importations in west and central Africa, January 2003 – March 2004
Food safety at risk in Asia and the Pacific
International Health Regulations
Full text
21 May 2004, vol. 79, 21 (pp 201-204)
DengueNet in India
Assessment of risk to human
health associated with
outbreaks of highly
pathogenic H5N1
avian influenza in poultry –
As at 14 May 2004
International Health
Regulations
Full text
14 May 2004, vol. 79, 20 (pp 193-200)
Outbreak News
– Dengue fever, Indonesia –
update
– Yellow fever, Burkina Faso
Buruli ulcer disease
WHO web sites
Corrigendum
International Health
Regulations
Full text
7 May 2004, vol. 79, 19 (pp 181-192)
Dracunculiasis eradication
Confirmation of all previously reported SARS cases, China
Investment in water and sanitation yields health and economic benefits
Influenza
International Health Regulations
Full text
30 April 2004, vol. 79, 18 (pp 173-180)
Review panel
on Haemophilus influenzae
type b (Hib) disease burden in
Bangladesh, Indonesia and
other Asian countries,
Bangkok, 28–29 January 2004
Food safety in developing
countries – building capacity
Full text
23 April 2004, vol. 79, 17 (pp 161-172)
Outbreak News:
– Dengue fever, Indonesia –
update
Progress towards poliomyelitis
eradication in Nigeria, January
2003 –March 2004
Nipah virus outbreak(s)
in Bangladesh, January–April
2004
International travel and health
2004 – Just published
International Health
Regulations
Full text
16 April 2004, vol. 79, 16 (pp 153-160)
Outbreak News:
– Meningococcal disease, Central African Republic
– Meningococcal disease, Chad
Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease) eradication
Strengthening the early warning function of surveillance, Republic of Serbia: lessons learnt one year after implementation
International Health Regulations
Full text
9 April 2004, vol. 79, 15 (pp 145-152)
Buruli ulcer disease
Progress towards measles
elimination, western
hemisphere, 2002–2003
Influenza
International Health
Regulations
Full text
2 April 2004, vol. 79, 14 (pp 129-144)
Outbreak News:
– Dengue fever, Indonesia – update
– Meningococcal disease, Burkina Faso
– Meningococcal disease, Nigeria
Measles vaccines
Pregnant women and antenatal care
WHO web sites on infectious diseases
International Health Regulations
Full text
26 March 2004, vol. 79, 13 (pp 121-128)
Progress towards poliomyelitis eradication in India, 2003
Tuberculosis fact sheet
International Health Regulations
Full text
19 March 2004, vol. 79, 12 (pp 109-120)
Outbreak News:
– Yellow fever, Liberia
Performance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance and incidence of poliomyelitis, 2003–2004
Preparedness for deliberate epidemics
Drug resistant tuberculosis levels in eastern Europe and central Asia
International Health Regulations
Full text
12 March 2004, vol. 79, 11 (pp 101-108)
Outbreak News:
– Dengue fever, Indonesia
– Yellow fever, Liberia
Ninth Informal Consultation on
the Global Polio Laboratory
Network
Global tuberculosis control,
2004
Buying high-quality TB drugs
through GDF’s direct
procurement mechanism
WHO consultation on priority
public health interventions
before and during an influenza
pandemic
International Health
Regulations
Full text
5 March 2004, vol. 79, 10 (pp 93-100)
Outbreak News
– Dengue fever, Indonesia
– Nipah-like virus, Bangladesh
Influenza in the world
Avian influenza A(H5N1)
Situation (poultry) in Asia
Influenza
International Health
Regulations
Full text
27 February 2004, vol. 79, 9 (pp 85-92)
Outbreak News:
– Cholera, Africa
Nipah virus fact sheet
Recommended composition
of influenza virus vaccines
for use in the 2004–2005
influenza season
International Health
Regulations
Full text
20 February 2004, vol. 79, 8 (pp 77-84)
Avian influenza frequently
asked questions
Influenza
International Health
Regulations
Full text
13 February 2004, vol. 79, 7 (pp 65-76)
Outbreak News: Avian influenza A(H5N1):
- Editorial note
- Preliminary clinical description, Thailand
- Preliminary epidemiological summary, Viet Nam and Thailand
Monitoring the interruption of indigenous measles transmission, Cape Town meeting, 14 October 2003
Database of public health chemical incidents: first year pilot phase report
International Health Regulations
Full text
6 February 2004, vol. 79, 6 (pp 53-64)
Outbreak News:
– Avian influenza A(H5N1)
– Severe acute respiratory
syndrome (SARS)
Global Polio Eradication
Initiative: Strategic Plan 2004-
2008
WHO/WPRO/SEARO meeting
for DengueNet implementation
in South-East Asia and the
Western Pacific, Kuala Lumpur,
11–13 December 2004
Influenza
Corrigendum
Ports designated
International Health
Regulations
Full text
30 January 2004, vol. 79, 5 (pp 41-52)
Outbreak News:– Avian influenza A(H5N1)
Recommendations from the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts to the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals
International Health Regulations
Full text
23 January 2004, vol. 79, 4 (pp 25-40)
Outbreak News:
- Development of a vaccine effective against avian influenza H5N1 infection in humans
BCG Vaccine
Influenza
International Health Regulations
Full text
16 January 2004, vol. 79, 3 (pp 13-24)
Outbreak News
– Avian influenza A(H5N1)
in humans and poultry,
Viet Nam
– Announcement of suspected
severe acute respiratory
syndrome (SARS) case,
southern China-update
Global Advisory Committee on
Vaccine Safety, 3–4 December
2003
Progress in reducing global
measles deaths: 1999-2002
Influenza
Corrigendum
International Health
Regulations
Full text
9 January 2004, vol. 79, 1/2 (pp 1-12)
Laboratory confirmation
of a SARS case, southern China
Assessment of neonatal
tetanus elimination in Malawi
Recommendations
of the Interim Policy
on Collaborative TB/HIV
Activities
Influenza
International Health
Regulations
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