In 1918, there were no laboratory tests to detect, isolate, or characterize flu viruses. 100 years after the 1918 flu pandemic, the world has made major advances in the science of flu prevention and control.
Dr. Anita Patel is one of CDC’s key problem solvers working to protect the United States from a future influenza pandemic. Her responsibilities include making sure the nation has strategies in place for medical countermeasures to be able to treat sick patients and protect health care workers.
Unlike seasonal flu, a flu pandemic is a global outbreak of a new flu virus that is very different from recently circulating human flu viruses. Learn more here: https://go.usa.gov/xQhR9
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