WHO Deploys National Pandemic Influenza Surveillance Grid in Egypt—270 Officers Trained for Real-Time Monitoring Across 30 Sentinel Sites
WHO Deploys National Pandemic Influenza Surveillance Grid in Egypt—270 Officers Trained for Real-Time Monitoring Across 30 Sentinel Sites As countries engineer avian influenza bird flu pathogens without restraint. Jon Fleetwood The World Health Organization and Egypt’s Ministry of Health just completed a national-scale workshop training nearly 300 surveillance officers to expand real-time monitoring of influenza and other respiratory pathogens across the country. The move comes as this website has been tracking multiple governments performing gain-of-function experiments on avian influenza “bird flu” pathogens (see below this article), raising worries of another orchestrated, man-made pandemic. The WHO announcement frames the workshop as routine and annual, masking the scale of the expansion and the integration of surveillance functions under WHO guidance. “The annual meeting and accompanying workshop on integrated surveillance of acute respiratory infections (ARIs), ...