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A brief head’s up on two upcoming media events you can access via the Internet.
First up, later today (June 16th) there will be a free webinar and Teleconference as part of the OAHPP (Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion) Grand Rounds that will provide the latest information on last week’s announced reassortment between the pH1N1 and seasonal H3N2 virus in Canada.
Registration is Free and Easy on the Eventbrite website.
The details from the webinar announcement follow:
OAHPP Rounds: pH1N1 – H3N2: A Novel Influenza Virus Reassortment
Thursday, June 16, 2011 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (ET)
Toronto Ont.,
Presenter:
Dr. Jonathan Gubbay- Medical Microbiologist, OAHPP
Discussant:
Dr. Natasha Crowcroft- Director, Surveillance and Epidemiology, OAHPP
Abstract
Dr. Jonathan Gubbay, medical microbiologist at the Toronto Public Health Laboratory, will present on a new influenza virus that has been discovered by the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion (OAHPP). It is the first Canadian confirmed finding of a patient with a coinfection of seasonal H3N2 and pH1N1 followed by reassortment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case ever reported globally. The sample was submitted to OAHPP laboratories and testing identified co-infection and reassortment of the two viruses. These results were validated by National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.
The new virus is a hybrid of two viruses currently circulating in humans, both of which are covered by the current seasonal influenza vaccine (the H3N2 virus and the H1N1 virus). There have been no reports of additional cases or human-to-human transmission. Dr. Gubbay will be discussing the above case as well as molecular changes within the seasonal H3N2 influenza that have been seen this season.
Dr. Natasha Crowcroft will be the discussant, commenting on the public health significance of this finding.
Also, next week is the CDC’s big ACIP meeting, which has a wide variety of immunization issues on the agenda, including presentations and/or discussions on the Herpes Zoster, Varicella, Meningococcal, MMR, Pertussis, HPV and Influenza vaccines.
CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Meeting
Please Note the Need to RSVP
WHAT
Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
WHEN
Wednesday and Thursday, June 22-23, 2011, from 8:00am to 5:30pm ET
WHERE
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
Tom Harkin Global Communications Center (Building 19)
For directions to CDC, please visit http://www.cdc.gov/about/resources/visitGuide.htm#direction.WEBSTREAM
If you cannot attend the meeting in person, it will be webstreamed. More information can be found at http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/acip/downloads/internet-access-instruc.pdf.
BACKGROUND
An agenda for the meeting can be found at http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/acip/.
