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Saudis planning for pandemic

Posted on October 03, 2008

Via CIDRAP, a very interesting report from Annals of Thoracic Medicine: Avian influenza: The tip of the iceberg. The abstract, re-paragraphed:For some years now, we have been living with the fear of an impending pandemic of avian influenza (AI). Despite the recognition, in 1996, of the global threat posed by the highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus found in farmed geese in Guangdong Province, China, planning for the anticipated epidemic remains woefully inadequate; this is especially true in developing countries such as Saudi Arabia. These deficiencies became obvious in 1997, with the outbre...

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