title: Pandemic planning: non-pharmaceutical interventions.
abstract: Ongoing concerns about the emergence of an influenza pandemic continue as the number of avian and human infections with the H5N1 virus mount. Adequate amounts of vaccine or anti-virals are unlikely to be available early on in a pandemic, and the latter could become ineffective because of resistance. These factors have focused attention on the use of non-pharmaceutical public health interventions to inhibit human-to-human transmission.
authors: Department of Microbiology, Mt. Sinai Hospital and the Ontario Central Public Health Laboratory, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. dLow@mtsinai.on.ca
authors: Donald E
authors: DE
authors: Low
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006801:Humans; D053124:Influenza A Virus, H5N1 Subtype; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission