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06.09.2009 9:00 pm

Public health lessons from swine flu for the next pandemic

Mexico City students return to school during the swine flu outbreak in May.

Mexico City students return to school during the swine flu outbreak in May.

It doesn’t take a severe pandemic — or even much of a disease outbreak — to overwhelm America’s public health system.
That’s an important lesson highlighted in a pair…

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04.29.2009 9:00 pm

A little perspective on swine flu

“In the long run, we’re all dead.”
— John Maynard Keynes

The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that a swine flu pandemic is likely imminent. “It’s really all of humanity that’s under threat,” said Dr. Margaret Chan, the organization’s director general.
Frightening though…

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