For All Healthcare Risk Management Professionals: the following links go directly to recent communications from the Centers for Disease Control regarding the outbreak of human to human transmission of swine flu, previously found only in swine and transmitted to humans only after contact with contaminated dead animals. Prior to this outbreak there has been no known cases of human to human transmission. Weekly updates can be found on the CDC website, or can be found here via links.

The following link found at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (http://www.cdc.gov) has been sent by kwoodfin2003@msn.com

The public health emergency declaration regarding the swine flu outbreak is available at  www.hhs.gov/secretary/phe_swh1n1.html