Novel Influenza Planning Workgroup

Monica Schroeder, Program Analyst at CSTE NASPHV/NASAHO Measures to Minimize Influenza Transmission at Swine Exhibitions — Hi everyone - Based on some of our conversation last Friday during the workgroup call, I wanted to share the updated "Measures to Minimize Influenza Transmission at Swine Exhibitions", for those who haven't had an opportunity to see these yet.  The document was updated in November 2016 to include... 1
Monica Schroeder, Program Analyst at CSTE November Conference Call RESCHEDULED - Nov 18th at 1-2pm ET — We will be rescheduling our November CSTE Novel Flu WG conference call to November 18th due to the 11th being a holiday (Veteran’s Day).     Friday, November 18th at 1-2pm ET 1-877-668-4490; 27071407#
Monica Schroeder, Program Analyst at CSTE Conference Call - 10/14 @ 1pm ET CANCELED — Hello,    The CSTE Novel Influenza Planning Workgroup conference call scheduled for this Friday, October 14th at 1pm ET will be canceled.  In lieu of meeting via phone, Karen and Tom will be circulating a draft version of the guidance document for everyone’s review and comment (either via e-mail ...
Tom Haupt 2 new posts — 2 new templates have been posted in the Docs and Files/Template Draft/Forms section.  Please review when time.  The forms were designed to be easily  modified, ie remove columns, adjust cells etc.
Monica Schroeder, Program Analyst at CSTE Influenza Surveillance Among Swine - OSU Webinar Presentation — All, Related to today's discussion, please see attached for presentation slides from Dr. Bowman's presentation earlier this summer.  The presentation was intended to provide  summary data to support the current recommendations for length of swine exhibition in agriculture fairs to reduce transmi... 1
Karen Martin County/state fair season — With some recent H3N2v cases and the fact that it's fair season, maybe we could spend a few minutes on our call Friday talking about surveillance for fair-related cases. 1
Lisa McHugh, Assistant Bureau Director, Bureau of Epidemiology Novel influenza guidance documents — I just reviewed some of the guidance documents posted here. There is one thing that has been on my mind that I have been trying to solve here in NJ. I'd love to create 1 document that covers all novel influenza guidance (swine, avian, unknown). We heard feedback from some providers saying how wou... 4
Monica Schroeder, Program Analyst at CSTE 7/8 Workgroup Call - CANCELED — Because of the conference and holiday, we’ve decided to cancel July’s call scheduled for tomorrow. The next call is scheduled for August 12. Before that time, let’s try to have the draft templates uploaded to Basecamp (assignments below) and aim for reviewing 2 of the uploaded documents. If you a...
Monica Schroeder, Program Analyst at CSTE Workgroup Call 6/6 Follow-up — Thanks to all who participated in yesterday's workgroup call, and for all of your hard work in template development so far - everything looks really great!  A few follow-up items from yesterday's workgroup call: • The 'Draft Templates' folder in the Documents section of Basecamp has been organiz... 1
Monica Schroeder, Program Analyst at CSTE Workgroup Call 5/13 Follow-up — Thanks to everyone for a productive work group call!  I have listed below the categories and those who volunteered to help within each audience/area of communication.  Based on our conversation, it sounds like next steps will be to review the documents uploaded here (Basecamp) around each particu... 1
Karen Martin question — Anyone having trouble with basecamp freezing up after downloads? 1
Monica Schroeder, Program Analyst at CSTE Untitled — Hi everyone, just a friendly reminder to upload any relevant documents and peruse those from other jurisdictions.  Also, take a look around at Basecamps features!