The first five days: field and laboratory investigations during the early stages of the equine influenza outbreak in Australia, 2007.

Until August 2007, Australia was one of only three countries internationally recognised to be free of equine influenza (EI). This report documents the diagnosis of the first cases of EI in Australian horses and summarises the investigations that took place over the next 5 days. During that time, a multifocal outbreak was identified across eastern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland. The use of an influenza type A pan-reactive real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction allowed rapid confirmation of suspect cases of EI.

Portrait of Ellen Bernkopf nee Catzenstein as an infant. Portraits Children

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Studio portrait of Ellen Bernkopf nee Catzenstein; Ascone, Switzerland. Portraits Women

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Outdoor portrait of Ellen Bernkopf nee Catzenstein with her husband Hans Bernkopf; Paris, France. Portraits Couples

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Freddy Godshaw (Gottschalk) while President of his Rotary Club. Portraits Men

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Wedding portrait of Kurt Godshaw (Gottschalk) and Edith Godshaw nee Osterer; Quito, Ecuador. Portraits Couples

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John and Ursula Schlosstein nee Gottschalk with their infant son Ralph. portraits family

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Hans Krakauer and Elizabeth Krakauer nee Gottschalk; Boston, New York. Portraits Couples

Photograph taken in front of the house in Boston, in upstate New York outside of Buffalo, where in 1939 they set up their private medical practice. After WWII, they built a new house next door.

Freddy Godshaw (Gottschalk) (far left) on Pfingsten (Pentacost) with two unidentified friends who perished in the Holocaust. Portraits Children

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Wedding portrait of Hans Krakauer and Elizabeth Godshaw (Gottschalk); Hannover, Germany. Portraits Couples

In the apartment on Ruemkorffstrasse that the Gottschalks occupied after being forced to sell their house.

Walter Godshaw (Gottschalk) riding a motor scooter; Japan(?) Portraits Men

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The August 2007 equine influenza response management framework.

This section outlines the most important issues addressed in the management of the response in the two infected states, New South Wales and Queensland. There were differences in the management of the response between the states for logistic, geographic and organisation structural reasons. Issues included the use of control centres, information centres, the problems associated with the lack of trained staff to undertake all the roles, legislative issues, controls of horse movements, the availability of resources for adequate surveillance, the challenges of communication between disparate groups and tracing the movements of both humans and horses.

Studio portrait of Sarah-Bertha Klarenmeyer nee Meyerhof called "Spatz" as a young woman. portraits women

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Studio portrait of Moritz "Mori" Meyerhof. Portraits Men

Verso: Moritz Meyerhof (Mori) Meyerhof (29. April 1867 in Hildesheim?); p. 12 of the Stammtafeln die Familie Meyerhof. Donated by his nephew Hillel (Herbert) Meyerhof.

Studio portrait of Betty Meyerhof. Portraits Women

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