CIO Council Pandemic Committee

June 2007 Report

Deliverables

We provide constant surveillance over the world’s news media.  We routinely go over current events.  We are seeking and conducting peer review of agency pandemic

plans. Our Website is an excellent portal for preparedness info.  Soon, our pandemic e-newsletter will be back in circulation.  The Florida Channel has asked to continue carrying all our meetings

live on statewide television.  This has a larger audience than you would imagine, and reinforces us as the most transparent of all the pandemic groups – if there are other pandemic groups out there!  So wear makeup.

Key Assumptions Assessments of individual agency preparedness are pointless and worthless, because we

have no mandate to do so and no one cares right now about pandemics, save for us.  So we will continue to harass and harangue those agencies who do not actively participate,

and work closely with those that do want to join us.  We will provide, via meetings and Website info, the information agencies need to prepare.  We will discuss best practices and we will absorb and implement what we can.  But we want agencies as a whole to prepare, not just IT.  So we also need to “eat our own dog food” and make formal requests for masks, hand

sanitizer, gloves and other non-pharmaceutical interventions for us and for our staff.  This will continue to remind decision-makers that government won’t run on goodwill alone

when a pandemic strikes.  Maybe we can’t stockpile Tamiflu (actually we can as individuals), but we can do what we

must to protect our people.

WorldviewApril – June, 2007

Denver, Co., United States

Wichita, Kansas

Great Britain

Wales

H7N2 outbreak in poultry Moves quickly to humans

256 tested for H7N2 17 positives

Mild avian flu, but with pandemic potential

Egypt

PakistanA Pakistani farmer displays two chickens infected with H5N1

Kabul, Afghanistan

China

Disinfecting in Hunan, China, in wake of outbreak and hospitalization of Chinese Army soldier.

Vietnam

National Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hanoi

Its most famous current resident

Intensive Care, H5N1 patient.Died Saturday.First Vietnamese H5N1 death since November, 2005.

Also is sixth death in same province.

Cambodia

US Ambassador to Cambodia delivers medical supplies with help of bird flu awareness mascot.

Indonesia

Medan, Indonesia

Jembrana, Indonesia

Jakarta, Indonesia

Singapore, Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sydney, AustraliaAPEC meeting