What has been done in Alaska to prepare for a pandemic influenza outbreak?
• Alaska ’s Pandemic Influenza plan calls for actions at the state and local level to communicate medical information, conduct disease surveillance, deliver vaccines, distribute medications and implement public health measures to control the spread of disease. • Annual public health influenza vaccination clinics in several communities have been used as exercises for the potential mass vaccination of people. • A state mass casualty plan has been written and exercised to prepare for rapidly expanding hospital and medical services capacity. • Plans have been made and tested for using the Strategic National Stockpile to get additional medicines and supplies in an emergency situation.
