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Avian Influenza Training Guide for Community Facilitators Session 2

Avian Influenza Training Guide for Community Facilitators Session 2 . Objectives for the Session. Participants will be able to describe an influenza pandemic and its implications on the population. Pandemic =

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Avian Influenza Training Guide for Community Facilitators Session 2

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  1. Avian Influenza Training Guide for Community FacilitatorsSession 2

  2. Objectives for the Session • Participants will be able to describe an influenza pandemic and its implications on the population.

  3. Pandemic = An epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the human population. It can have a very high mortality rate killing up to 10% of the population infected. 

  4. What can really happen? • Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 globally infected 360 million people or 20% of the world’s population. • 40 million people died worldwide • The world suffered a breakdown of social and economic infrastructure. • Spanish Flu originated from livestock infected with the influenza virus which mutated under conditions that left it unchecked. • Spanish-flu-infected animals were allowed to infect common influenza-infected humans who worked in close contact with animals. • The virus mutated and spread rapidly, killing millions of people in its wake in a very short period of time.

  5. Could a pandemic really happen?

  6. The potential for catastrophe is tremendous According to the WHO, it is certain that another influenza pandemic will occur again. No one is sure when it will strike.

  7. The next pandemic…. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that 10,000,000 people worldwide could die in the event of a deadly pandemic.

  8. Viral considerations… Yet each virus is different. Variables of how quickly a mutated virus can spread include: • Symptoms of infection in humans including sneezing, coughing, fever, sweating, vomiting, fatigue, dementia, pulmonary edema, hypersensitivity, depression, kidney failure, hemorrhaging, and ataxia. • Resistance by the virus to varying degrees of cold, heat, moisture, and/or drugs. • Transmission modes of the virus including airborne, waterborne, rodent, and/or insect.

  9. Let’s play a game…. • Read through the primer about how to play the pandemic simulation game. You may also choose to watch the tutorial that will automatically appear when the game begins on the next screen.

  10. Pandemics can be contained… • There are best case scenarios regarding viral pandemics. • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is an example of a potential viral pandemic that was averted by the quick and proper action of the local governments and international health agencies in response to the recognition of an unknown mutated virus. • Ultimately, only 8,000 people were infected and less than 800 people died worldwide due to the international agencies’ quick response and cooperation between numerous countries in a quick period of time.

  11. What is the avian flu?

  12. Group Discussion • What causes avian influenza? • How is the virus transmitted? • Does freezing protect us from infected meat? • At what temperature does meat need to be cooked to kill the virus in infected meat?

  13. How can the flu virus cause a pandemic?

  14. Group Discussion • How does a a virus that affects animals threaten humans? • What are differences between common influenza and avian influenza? • What were the last pandemics recorded? • What pandemic has occurred since the making of this video in 2007? • Does the occurrence of the H1N1 pandemic change our need for precaution and prevention?

  15. Role Plays We will conduct 2 role plays. There will be five (5) different roles in each role play responding to two (2) different scenarios. The roles are: • Mama • Papa • Son • Daughter • Village Leader

  16. Role Play#1 Scenario: A pandemic has not been officially declared. People have become infected at a very high rate and many of the people in the village are dying.

  17. Role Play Discussion • What are some of the prevention methods of contracting AHI? Was the family doing these? • What did the family do that was correct in preventing infection? • What did the family do wrong in preventing infection?

  18. Role Play #2 Scenario: 1-2 weeks after the last wave of infections. In this village, almost half of the population is dead and many people are sick in the hospital. There are only 10% of the village healthy and well. This family is one of the surviving families. Their food is running low, their water supply is almost finished, and they have used all of their medical supplies. They have no electricity, no running water, very little money but nowhere to spend it as everything is shut down. They are terrified and have killed all your chickens for fear of getting sick.

  19. Role Play #2 Discussion • What are the things that this family did right? • Is there anything they could have done better? • What happens if a pandemic is still in full swing and you run out of water or food?

  20. Objectives for the Session • Participants will be able to describe an influenza pandemic and its implications on the population.

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