DoD Global Influenza Surveillance Linda C. Canas Epidemiology Services Branch Brooks City-Base, TX February 16,2005 Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Meeting
History PREVENT OUTBREAKS ….. healthy troops 1976 U.S. Air Force begins sureillance –Isolate and Identify circulating influenza virus –Detect emerging variants –Evaluate effectiveness of vaccine
Population Based Surveillance Naval Health Research Center San Diego, California Etiology Based Surveillance Brooks City-Base San Antonio, Texas Influenza Surveillance
DoD Global Influenza Surveillance IN ACTION IN ACTION DoD GEIS Epi Services Branch Laboratory Routine & Annual Reports; End of Season business meeting Collect and ship Samples Sentinel Sites Program Guidance & routine reports Conventional/ Molecular Laboratory Methods Flu Isolated Selected Samples CDC Vaccine Decisions Molecular Sequences Supplies FedEx Support Funding & Guidance
DoD Influenza Surveillance Sentinel Sites
Vaccination Stats 80% of AD AF personnel have been vaccinated as of 14 Feb 05 Recruits have received FluMist No virus tested has been consistent with the seed virus for FluMist
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Results from New York and New Jersey
Results from Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi
Results from Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma
Results from Illinois
Results from Colorado
Results from UK, Germany, Italy, and Turkey
Results from Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Korea, Japan
Results from Peru
A Six-Seasonal Year Review through Seasonal Year Specimen Result * Negative73%59%66%61%58% 63% Adenovirus3%33%16%18%20%11%5% Enterovirus0% 1% Herpes Simplex Virus 2%1% 2%1% 2% Influenza A15%6% 14%8%25%26% Influenza B5%1%7%3%8%2%3% Parainfluenza2%1% 2% 1% Respiratory Syncytial Virus 0% 1% 0% * data includes specimens collected from 01 October 2004 through 4 February 2005.