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5/13/13 Journal of Travel Medicine Free Editor's Choice Articles (ISTM)
5/12/13 Tdap VIS Update (CDC)
5/9/13 Prevention and Control of Influenza with Vaccines: Interim Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2013
5/9/13 Emergence of Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus Causing Severe Human Illness - China, February-April 2013 (CDC)
5/1/13 Emergence of Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Causing Severe Human Illness: China (MMWR)
5/1/13 WHO Launches Emergency Response to Antimalarial Drug Resistance (WHO)
4/30/13 Lack of Association of Guillain-Barré Syndrome with Vaccinations (CID)
4/26/13 Avian Flu (H7N9) Update (CDC)
4/24/13 Mapping the Avian Flu (H7N9) (Nature)
4/24/13 European Vaccine Comparison Tool (ECDC)
4/24/13 Measles Atlas (ECDC)
4/22/13 Avian Flu Update China (CDC)
4/22/13 National Infant Immunization Week (CDC)
4/22/13 Update: Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Virus
4/17/13 Update on the Global Status of Polio (CDC)
4/16/13 Nationwide Shortage of Tuberculin Skin Test Antigens (CDC)
4/10/13 Cholera in Haiti (CDC)
4/10/13 Cholera in the Dominican Republic (CDC)
4/10/13 CDC Health Advisory (H7N9) China
4/4/13 ACIP Meeting Slides on JE in Travelers (CDC)
4/4/13 Update on Avian Influenza (H7N9) in China (CDC)
3/29/13 Study Reveals Routine Vaccines in Children Not Associated with Autism (CDC)
3/28/13 Diagnosis and Management of Q Fever
3/28/13 3 Cases of Congenital Rubella Syndrome in the Post-elimination Era
3/28/13 2 Measles Outbreaks After Importation
3/28/13 Increase in Reported Coccidioidomycosis
3/11/13 National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases: Our Work, Our Stories 2011-2012 (CDC)
3/7/13 Update on Novel Coronavirus and Severe Respiratory Illness (CDC)
3/7/13 Rabies Vaccine Update (CDC)
3/3/13 Relaunch of vaccineinformation.org contains info on travel-related diseases (CDC)
3/3/13 PCV13 VIS Updated (CDC)
2/24/13 Security Message for U.S. Citizens - Potential Kidnapping Threat in Cusco
2/24/13 Updated Recommendations for Use of Tdap in Pregnant Women (ACIP)
2/21/13 Novel Coronavirus (PHAC)
2/20/13 Update on the Use of Meningococcal Quadravalent Congugate
2/12/13 New website: Vaccine Information You Need (CDC)
2/12/13 At least 9 polio workers killed in Pakistan (WHO, UNICEF)
2/07/13 Ciguatera Fish Poisoning, NY (CDC)
2/06/13 46th National Immunization Conference Postponed (CDC)
2/06/13 FDA approves expanded age indication for use of Prevnar 13 to include children and teens age 6 through 17 years (IAC)
2/06/13 Pneumococcal Vaccines-CDC answers your questions (CDC)
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The American Travel Health Nurses Association (ATHNA) is the only professional organization solely committed to the advancement of travel health nursing in North America. Incorporated in 2004, ATHNA supports the professional development and education of Travel Health Nurses (THNs) in the United States and Canada. The mission of the American Travel Health Nurses Association is to promote excellence in travel health nursing practice, education, and research in North America.

Visit www.athna.org regularly. We continually update resources to respond to the evolving needs of our membership.

Announcements

  • Come meet your fellow ATHNA members at CISTM Maastricht - Meet & Greet Monday May 23, 2013.
    Maastricht
  • Look for our table at the AANP conference in Las Vegas June 19-23, 2013.
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Note: Travel Health Nursing is a growing nursing specialty devoted to the care of the international traveler.



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