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Avian Influenza - A Unique Opportunity for Public Health

• Tracking Disease in Wild Animals
  
• OIE Activities for the Global Improvement of Animal Health and their Benefits for Public Health
  
• When Animal Diseases Strike Humans
  

• Dengue Transmission and Control
  
• Chikungunya Outbreaks
  
• Urbanization of Yellow Fever
• Zika Virus on Yap Island
  

• Rift Valley Fever
  
• Rabies
  
• Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever
  

• Chagas Disease
  
• Nipah Virus
  
• Hepatitis E
  

• Antibiotics as a Limited Natural Resource
  
• Balancing Human and Animal Health
  
• A Worst Case Scenario: XDR TB
  

• MECIDS: Cross Border Surveillance and Response in the Middle East
  
• CaribVET: Animal Disease Surveillance in the Caribbean
  
• Healthmap/ProMED
• EpiSouth
  
  

• Climate as a Driver of Emerging Diseases
  
• Climate Change and Infectious Disease: Checking the Horse Before Hitching the Cart
  
• Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases: Climate, Landscape and Transmission
  

• Travelers as Sentinels Emerging Diseases
  
• Diseases that Travel with Animals
• Globalization and Human Migration
  

• The Pandemic Threat of Avian Influenza Viruses
  
• Clinical Development of a Cell-culture (Vero) derived Whole Virus Candidate H5N1 Vaccine
• Bluetongue Virus Vaccines: Solution or Part of the Problem?
  
• Dengue Vaccine Development
  

• Communication with the Public During an Outbreak: WHO's Best Practices
  
• Social Aspects of Risk Perception: The Case of Mad Cow
• The Role of the Media
• Communication via Social Networks
  

• Prediction of Influenza Outbreaks Using the Searchstream
  
• Intervention Strategies for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Outbreaks
• Human Flu Outbreak Management Strategies
• Influenza Drug Resistance