By Olivier Guitta

On Monday, the Sun ran a story reporting that 40 terrorists from AQIM had died of plague in a terrorist training camp in Tizi Ouzou. Yesterday, Eli Lake from the Washington Times confirmed through one of his source in the U.S. intelligence community that an incident had taken place at a training camp that had to be shut down as a result. The deaths were not confirmed though.

A few observations at this point that give credence to this story, which has not received the coverage it deserves:

By DONALD G. MCNEIL JR
Published: January 23, 2009
In the first known case of what may be transmission of the Ebola virus from a pig to a human, a pig handler in the Philippines has tested positive for a strain of the virus, world health officials and the Philippine government announced Friday.

Agenda from Research America

Contact Congress Now

Urge your congressional delegation to support $17.6 billion for research to improve health in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Jan. 23, 2009 – 4:04 p.m.

By Alex Wayne, CQ Staff
Senate Democrats are proposing about $132 billion in new spending for Medicaid and Medicare, electronic health records and health insurance for the unemployed as part of the emerging economic stimulus package.

This January 8th 2009 article by Ben Furnas of the Center for American Progress
provides a good back-drop for the debate on health care reform and concludes:

Resource of the Week: Carroll Publishing's Transition Tracker By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor

http://digbig.com/4ydgy

Here's a timely (free!) resource that crossed our radar screen this week, from a publisher that is certainly highly qualified to profile this sort of information.

Staying abreast of current developments throughout the transition
from the old administration to the new is important to the
American people. Carroll Publishing has always provided the best
contact information at all levels of government for its clients.

Anne Frølich1§, Michaela L Schiøtz2, Martin Strandberg-Larsen2, John Hsu3, Allan Krasnik2, Finn Diderichsen4, Jim Bellows5, Jes Søgaard6, Karen White7
1. Copenhagen Hospital Corporation, Copenhagen NV, Denmark
2 Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark
3 Center for Health Policy Studies, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA , USA
4 Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark
5 Care Management Institute, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA USA
6. Danish Institute for Health Services Research, Copenhagen , Denmark

Prepared by Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Adelaide Thinker in Residence Department of the Premier and Cabinet
May 2008 - State of South Australia

Available online PDF [62p.] at: http://www.thinkers.sa.gov.au/images/Kickbusch_Final_Report.pdf

Annalijn Conklin, Anna-Marie Vilamovska, Han de Vries, Evi Hatziandreu
Health and Consumer Protection Commission (DG SANCO)

Available online PDF [148p.] at: http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2008/RAND_TR596.pdf

Primary health care delivery models in rural and remote Australia
a systematic review

John Wakerman , John S Humphreys , Robert Wells , Pim Kuipers , Philip Entwistle and Judith Jones
1 Centre for Remote Health, a joint Centre of Flinders University & Charles Darwin University, Australia
2 Monash University School of Rural Health, Victoria, Australia
3 Menzies Centre for Health Policy and College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Australian National University, Australia
BMC Health Services Research 2008, 8:276doi:10.1186/1472-6963-8-276
29 December 2008

International Society for Equity in Health (ISEqH)

5th International Conference theme: Social and Societal Influences on Equity in Health

June 9, 11 2009 Crete, Greece

5th International Conference in partnership with Greek School of Public Health and Canadian Society for International Health

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Deadline for Submission: February 28, 2009

Website: http://www.iseqh-conference2009.com/

Spanish: http://www.iseqh-conference2009.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1&lang=es

But an Electronic Health Records system could save the nation $300B a year
Lucas Mearian

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)

Available online:
English: http://devserver.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=308&Itemid=

Spanish: http://devserver.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=307&Itemid=

Innovative Community-based Ecosystem Management Interventions for Improved Dengue and Chagas Disease Prevention in Latin America and the Caribbean

A TDR/IDRC Research Initiative
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF CONCEPT NOTES: Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Website: http://www.who.int/tdr/svc/grants/calls/innovative-ecosystem-management
English: Call for concept notes [PDF: 169Kb, 6 pages]

Spanish: Convocatoria para la presentación de notas conceptuales en catalán [PDF: 75Kb, 6 páginas]

French: Demande de notes de synthèse en français [PDF: 140Kb, 5 pages]

Where There Is No Vision, the People Will Refuse to Perish - But Do-Nothing Institutions Very Well Might