Experts: Yellow Fever Epidemic in Congo and Angola
鈥淭he World Health Organization's (WHO) emergency committee on deadly yellow fever will meet on Aug. 31 to review outbreaks in Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola, a spokesman said on Tuesday, as a major vaccination campaigns continues.鈥� ( and )
Dr. Anne Andermann, Faculty of Medicine, 平特五不中
"In public health, no news means the system is doing its job. Whereas playing catch up once an outbreak is out of control is slower and more costly, particularly the human cost due to preventable deaths and the impact this has on families.聽It is easy to point fingers and assign blame when situations start to unravel, but outbreaks need to be contained at the source, and to do this, there needs to be heavy investments in strong public health infrastructure and universal access to primary health care to identify outbreaks early, diagnose them correctly and prevent them from spreading."鈥擠r. Anne Andermann
She鈥檚 a medical specialist in public health and preventive medicine. Dr. Anne Andermann is the founding director of the聽CLEAR Collaboration聽聽that aims to help frontline health workers address the underlying social causes of poor health through a combination of direct patient care, referral and advocacy for larger social change. Dr. Andermann has previously worked on research capacity strengthening for low- and middle-income countries at the World Health Organization in Geneva
anne.andermann [at] mcgill.ca (English, French)
Brian Ward, Centre for the Study of Host Resistance, 平特五不中
鈥淎lthough there has been a real shortage of vaccine for Canadians the last few months, Sanofi announced last week that we could now order as much as we want.鈥�鈥擝rian Ward
Professor Ward is an expert on vaccines, immunity and
Brian.ward [at] mcgill.ca (English, French)
