Australian Health Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza

C2. How our pandemic planning assumptions will be reviewed

These assumptions will be regularly reviewed by the SIAG during the ALERT phase and SPAG in other phases, to ensure they are consistent with the latest scientific evidence.
The assumptions are explained in Part 3, Section C3. There is an assumption table for each of the following:

1. Incubation period
2. Attack rate
3. Modes of transmission
4. Period of communicability
5. Respiratory protection zone
6. Survival of the virus
7. Serial interval
8. Presenting symptoms
9. Health impact of pandemic influenza
10. Treatment with Neuraminidase Inhibitor (NI) antivirals
11. Antiviral prophylaxis with Neuraminidase Inhibitor (NI) antivirals
12. Immunity following natural infection
13. Immunity following vaccination
14. Absenteeism
15. Duration of pandemic disruption

|TOC|next page

This information is current for 03 September, 2010
This information was issued on 05 December, 2008