PanStop: a decade of rapid containment exercises for pandemic preparedness in the WHO Western Pacific Region

• Main Authors: Edna Moturi (Author), Katherine Horton (Author), Leila Bell (Author), Lucy Breakwell (Author), Erica Dueger (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Rapid containment (RC) is one of the five priority interventions of the World Health Organization (WHO) Strategic Action Plan for Pandemic Influenza;1 it relies on the concept that mass prophylactic administration of antiviral drugs, combined with quarantine and social distancing measures, could con...