The public health implications of the pandemic therefore remain in doubt even as we now grapple with the feared emergence of a pandemic caused by H5N1 or other virus.
For all the fretfulness I'm obligated to express over the health implications of this pandemic — chicken fingers are often fried, and are often accompanied by fries — I'm much more rankled by its palate-deadening potential.
Recognising the full implications of the pandemic was late in coming over the decade, and silence still shrouds the issue in a number of regions.
With HIV prevalence ratios as high as 1 in 6 Zambian being infected, virtually no individual escapes the implications of the pandemic.
It is that cruel reality that keeps one awake at night when pondering all the aspects and implications of the pandemic.
Interview data and notes on relevant statistics from key hospitals of case studies will be thematically coded, enabling us to triangulate vaccine-related experience from alternative vantage points (hospital, media, community, clinicians and policy makers), and to explain implications of the pandemic experience of influenza for vaccine action planning.
A U.N. expert group that met to discuss gender implications of the pandemic concluded that the rapid spread of HIV infection and its deleterious effects on families, communities, and countries were a direct outgrowth of women's inequality and lack of power at all levels.
Published evidence indicates that aerosol transmission of influenza can be an important mode of transmission, which has obvious implications for pandemic influenza planning and in particular for recommendations about the use of N95 respirators as part of personal protective equipment.
A better understanding of the transmission of influenza between humans and swine is thus important, and will have implications for pandemic preparedness, particularly in light of the recently declared influenza A (H1N1) 2009 pandemic [ 7].
The findings and the approach for health social science research will have implications for containment of pandemic influenza in other settings and for effective vaccine action planning for other vaccines.
