Gearing Up for a Fight: Top Officials Outline Federal Response to H1N1 Pandemic
July 21, 2009
July 21, 2009
WASHINGTON, July 21 -- The American Association for the Advancement of Science issued the following news release:
A panel of top public health officials gathered at AAAS recently to discuss the H1NI swine flu, but their focus quickly turned to a pandemic that struck 91 years earlier.
Considered to be the worst pandemic in modern history, the 1918/1919 Spanish influenza virus infected an estimated 500 million--one-third of the world's population--killing between 500, . . .
A panel of top public health officials gathered at AAAS recently to discuss the H1NI swine flu, but their focus quickly turned to a pandemic that struck 91 years earlier.
Considered to be the worst pandemic in modern history, the 1918/1919 Spanish influenza virus infected an estimated 500 million--one-third of the world's population--killing between 500, . . .