Past Updates from the Clinician Registry Listserv
Update Sent August 20, 2007
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COCA Conference Call
Please join us this Thursday for our next COCA Conference Call!
Title: West Nile Update, 2007
Speakers: Emily C. Zielinski-Gutierrez, DrPH and Carolyn Reimann, MD
Date: Thursday, August 23, 2007
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET
Dial-in Number: 800-857-3796
Passcode: COCA
Objectives
1)Review basic WNV history, transmission and disease manifestations
2)Discuss temporal and geographic trends of WNV in the US
3)Discuss WNV prevention measures
Speaker Information
Emily Zielinski-Gutiérrez, MPH, Dr.P.H. is a Behavioral Scientist with the CDC Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, located in Fort Collins, Colorado. Dr. Zielinski-Gutierrez coordinates national education efforts for West Nile virus and several other vector-borne diseases, works with dengue fever in the Pacific and conducts research to improve disease prevention activities. She holds doctoral and masters degrees in public health from the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans where her studies included medical anthropology, tropical medicine, epidemiology and health communication. She has worked internationally in reproductive health and dengue fever prevention, and domestically with bioterrorism issues, HIV, hospice and border health. Dr. Zielinski-Gutierrez’s interests include evaluation of infectious disease control, the role for community participation and culture in public health prevention, and the role of human ecology in understanding vector-borne disease.
Carolyn Reimann, MD completed her undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA, in 1997. She then graduated from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD, in 2001. She completed a family medicine residency at Bremerton Naval Hospital in Washington state in 2004, followed by working for two years at Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Japan, as an ER physician. Carolyn is currently in her second year of a preventive medicine residency / Master of Science in Public Health program at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. She is presently working on her thesis in the Arboviral Diseases Branch of the Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases at the CDC office in Ft. Collins.
Slides will be available tomorrow on the COCA Web site: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/coca/callinfo.asp
West Nile Virus Update - United States, January 1- August 14, 2007 - MMWR Weekly - August 17
This report summarizes 2007 West Nile virus (WNV) surveillance data reported to CDC through ArboNET as of 3 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time, August 14, 2007.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5632a4.htm
Hurricane Dean
Hurricane Dean
Dean could become a category five hurricane later today. To read the latest public advisory please go to the following website: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/201458.shtml
For the latest information on this and other hurricanes or potential hurricanes, please see the National Hurricane Center website at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/.
For Hurricane-Related Information for Health Care Professionals please visit: http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/hcp.asp
Other links that may be of interest:
Key Facts about Hurricanes and Flood Recovery
Extreme Heat
Animal and Insect Hazards
Preventing Injury- including worker health and safety
Avian Influenza
Avian influenza – situation in Indonesia - WHO update - August 16
The Ministry of Health of Indonesia has announced a new case of human infection of H5N1 avian influenza.
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2007_08_16/en/index.html
Cumulative Number of Confirmed Human Cases of Avian Influenza A/(H5N1) Reported to WHO - August 16
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/
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