Archive : Winter 2006
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 JANUARY: Simulation in Healthcare, the first journal dedicated to the subject, will put out a
preview issue (regular quarterly publication begins in March). Published for the Society for
Medical Simulation, it will focus on clinical research results, simulation techniques and
technologies, and commentary on the field.
FEBRUARY: The European Union will release a report on an avian flu simulation exercise
across all 25 member states, Norway and Switzerland. In one of the largest such operations
ever attempted, the countries enacted a worst-case flu pandemic scenario in November to
examine communication and preparedness plans across borders.
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POLIO HAS RESURFACED in central Minnesota, 27 years after the last case in the United States was seen. Officials are trying to piece together how an eight-month-old Amish girl and four other children acquired the virus this past fall. Dr. Susan Rutten (shown making a house call) thinks the Amish, who often choose not to get vaccinated, have acquired the infectious disease either from traveling outside the United States or from contact with a foreign visitor. "If polio is in this community," says Rutten, "I guarantee it's in other parts of the country."
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Photo by Ingrid Young/The New York Times
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