Biosecurity, Emergency Preparedness, and Influenza
Biosecurity, emergency preparedness, and reportable poultry diseases have gained increased attention and importance based on recent experiences and concerns with events such as exotic Newcastle disease in the Western US, highly pathogenic Avian Influenza worldwide and H5N1 in Asia and Europe, natural disasters, and concerns of agroterrorism. This website has been established to serve as a resource center for information on these interrelated topics that have become increasingly important operational, management, and planning challenges to poultry producers and poultry health professionals. The goal is to identify and organize relevant available sources of information on a single website to facilitate access.
Hot Topics and New Information
*Indicates resources with a North Carolina focus.
- CDC Seasonal Flu Website
Updated daily by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Approaches to Controlling, Preventing and Eliminating H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Endemic Countries
UN Food and Agriculture Organization – Animal Production and Health Paper. No. 171. Rome 2011 - Rapid Estimation of Binding Activity of Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin to Human and Avian Receptors
PLOS ONE 2011 – 6(4): e18664. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018664 - World Health Organization Influenza at the Human-Animal Interface (HAI)
- Combining Spatial-Temporal and Phylogenetic Analysis Approaches for Improved Understanding on Global H5N1 Transmission
PLOS ONE Nov 2010 – 5(10): e13575. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013575 - Reassortment of Ancient Neuraminidase and Recent Hemagglutinin in Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Virus
Nov 2010 Emerging Infectious Diseases DOI:10.3201/eid1611.100361, Nov 2010 - New Evidence Suggests Southern China as a Common Source of Multiple Clusters of Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus
2010 Journal of Infectious Diseases 2010;202:452–458 DOI: 10.1086/653709, 15 Aug - World Health Organization Situation Updates – Pandemic (H1N1) 2009
Frequently updated - Association of RIG-I with Innate Immunity of Ducks to Influenza
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 28 Mar 2010 - Extensive Mammalian Ancestry of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Virus
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2010 Feb; [Epub ahead of print] DOI: 10.3201/eid1602.091141, 15 Jan 2010 - H1N1 Flu in Turkeys May Spread
UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 28 Aug 2009 - Guidelines for Surveillance for Pandemic H1N1 and other Influenza Viruses in Swine Populations
UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 11 Aug 2009 - American Society for Microbiology (ASM) publications on H1N1
ASM Journals, 13 May 2009 - More US Swine Flu Cases, Mexico Illnesses Raise Pandemic Questions
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), 24 Apr 2009 - Panorama Phylogenetic Diversity and Distribution of Type A Influenza Virus
PLOS ONE 4(3): e5022 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005022, 27 Mar 2009 - Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus: Cause of the next pandemic?
Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases doi:10.1016/j.cimid.2008.01.003, 24 Mar 2009 - Epidemiology of H5N1 Avian Influenza
Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases doi:10.1016/j.cimid.2008.01.005, 24 Mar 2009 - Paradox of Vaccination: Is Vaccination Really Effective against Avian Flu Epidemics?
PLOS ONE 4(3): e4915. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004915, 19 Mar 2009 - Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus Subtype H5N1 in Africa: A Comprehensive Phylogenetic Analysis and Molecular Characterization of Isolates
PLOS ONE 4(3): e4842. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004842, 19 Mar 2009 - Induction of Long-Term Protective Immune Responses by Influenza H5N1 Virus-Like Particles
PLOS ONE 4(3): e4667. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004667,2 Mar 2009 - Antibodies Protect Against Bird Flu and More
Reuters UK, 23 Feb 2009 - Structural and Functional Bases for Broad-Spectrum Neutralization of Avian and Human Influenza A Viruses
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology doi:10.1038/nsmb.1566, 22 Feb 2009 - Ready or Not? 2008 Protecting the Public’s Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism
Trust for America’s Health, Dec 2008 - One World, One Health Edging onto a Global Agenda: International Community to Draw on Lessons from Bird Flu Fight
UN Food and Agriculture Organization AIDE news, Avian Influenza Disease Emergency, Situation Update 56, 13 Nov 2008 - Avian Influenza in Poultry
World’s Poultry Science Journal (2008), 64: 513-532 Cambridge University Press doi:10.1017/S0043933908000184, 12 Nov 2008 - Genetic Evidence of Intercontinental Movement of Avian Influenza in a Migratory Bird: the Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)
Molecular Ecology Volume 17, Issue 21, Pages 4754-4762 DOI 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03953.x, 24 Oct 2008 - Poultry Carcass Disposal Options for Routine and Catastrophic Mortality
Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) Issue Paper No. 40, Oct 2008 - * October 1918: North Carolina and the “Blue Death”
UNC Libraries / Southern Historical Collection, 3 Oct 2008 - Pathogenesis of Emerging Avian Influenza Viruses in Mammals and the Host Innate Immune Response
Immunological Reviews, Vol 225, # 1, Oct 2008 , pp. 68-84(17), DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.2008.00690.x, 24 Sep 2008 - UNC Receives Record $181 Million Grant to Evaluate Health, Poverty and Gender Programs Worldwide
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 9 Sep 2008 - Protecting Poultry Workers from Exposure to Avian Influenza Viruses
US National Library of MedicineNational Institutes of Health, Public Health Report, 123(3):316-22., 2008 May/June - Genotypic Diversity of H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses
J Gen Virol 89 (2008), 2182-2193; DOI10.1099/vir.0.2008/001875-0, 29 Aug 2008 - Evolutionary and Transmission Dynamics of Reassortant H5N1 Influenza Virus in Indonesia
PLOS Pathog 4(8): e1000130. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1000130, 22 Aug 2008 - Transmission of H9N2 Influenza Viruses in Ferrets: Evaluation of Pandemic Potential
PLOS ONE 3(8): e2923. doi:10.1371, 14 Aug 2008
Commercial Sites
- Avigen: Biosecurity – an essential tool for modern poultry production
- DuPont Animal Health: Biosecurity
Reports, Publications, Resources
- * Bioterrorism Training – Program of North Carolina Institute for Public Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of Nebraska: Big Red Biosecurity Program
- US Poultry & Egg Association: Infectious Disease Risk Management Practical Biosecurity CD
- UK Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs: Biosecurity and Preventing Disease Document
- Centers for Disease Control: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in Healthcare Settings
- British Columbia Poultry Biosecurity Reference Guide