6 Levels of the Global Pandemic Swine Influenza Alert

6 Levels of the Global Pandemic Swine Influenza Alert

Report on planned measures in the event of a swine flu pandemic. Through the example of a crisis meeting at the hospital of Villeneuve-Saint-George (Val-de-Marne), explanations on the different alert levels and the measures applicable to each threshold. This strict six-phase global pandemic alert procedure is defined by the World Health Organization. The comment on factual images, infographic images and illustration images alternates with the interviews of Dr Olivier PATEY (Head of the Infectious Diseases Department at the Hospital of Villeneuve-St-Georges (Essonne), and Professor Didier HOUSSIN (Director General of Health).

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File : Major global pandemics

Publication date : 27 April 2009