Online Avian Influenza Course

This is pretty cool! The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) have created a three-day training course for responding to avian influenza.

Here's a link to the powerpoint presentations and materials: http://www.cste.org/Influenza/avian.asp

Training Objectives:

• identify potential for human health problems associated with cases of HPAI,
• minimize the risk of spread or further human infection if human infection or disease is identified,
• provide guidance to individuals who are involved in the response to an HPAI cases and other HPAI exposure settings,
• protect against the risk of infection and disease and minimize the risk of viral reassortment (i.e., mixing of genes from human and avian influenza viruses) should an outbreak of HPAI occur,
• provide guidance for multi-disciplinary rapid response teams to discuss, plan, and to facilitate discussion between all state and local avian influenza rapid response teams, and
• provide funding for state and local health agencies to conduct their own rapid response training session(s).