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Welcome to PREPARE
PREPARE is a UK Natural Environment Research Council knowledge exchange initiative with the overall aim to integrate the information and expertise required to assess the implications of pharmaceutical usage during a major disease outbreak for the environment, and the risk posed to current wastewater infrastructure.
The PREPARE Initiative aims to inform policy, regulation and emergency planning to ensure that ecotoxicologic and human health risks associated with pharmaceutical usage under pandemic and epidemic conditions are thoroughly assessed utilising all and currently available knowledge.
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Dutch workshop on the Impact of Pandemics on Wastewater Treatment Plants and Water Quality
A workshop on 20 January, 2011 was held at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), to assess the potential hazards stemming from the increased use of medicines (esp. antivirals and antimicrobials) during an influenza pandemic and the hazards they pose to the operation of wastewater treatment plants and water quality, with a particular focus on ‘the Dutch story’. The programme and talks can be found here.
Relevent Papers
One year environmental surveillance of rotavirus specie A (RVA) genotypes in circulation after the introduction of the Rotarix® vaccine in R...
Water Research, Vol. 45, No. 17. (November 2011), pp. 5755-5763.
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Impact of the 2009 Influenza Pandemic on Pneumococcal Pneumonia Hospitalizations in the United States
Journal of Infectious Diseases (07 December 2011)
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Pyrosequencing as a tool to detect molecular markers of resistance to neuraminidase inhibitors in seasonal influenza A viruses
Antiviral Research, Vol. 81, No. 1. (January 2009), pp. 16-24.
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Fran Slater
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