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Annex F
Infection Control and Occupational Health Guidelines During Pandemic Influenza In Traditional and Non-Traditional Health Care Settings

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Date of Latest Version: June 2006

Summary of Significant Changes:

  • Updated to include recommendations (and related references) regarding ventilation standards for health care facilities, and information regarding the spatial separation of patients in different settings;
  • Uses new Pandemic Phase terminology;
  • Recommendations regarding monitoring vaccinated visitors for ILI have been clarified;
  • Section on Public Health Measures has been deleted from Annex F as there is now a separate Annex on this topic.

Note: Section on the mode of transmission of influenza and required control measures will be updated. Further review of existing literature is ongoing, and a consensus conference of experts in influenza transmission and control and respiratory protection is planned to assist in resolution of these two controversial issues.

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