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Are we Prepared for the Next Pandemic?
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 Influenza (Flu)
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Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report
CDC's Influenza Division produces a weekly influenza surveillance report, FluView. According to this week's report (Apr 21-27), seasonal flu activity continues to decrease in the United States. CDC estimates that flu has caused as many as 42.7 million flu illnesses, 637,000 hospitalizations and 59,600 deaths so far this season.
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Are we Prepared for the Next Flu Pandemic?
Influenza and its ever-present potential to cause global outbreaks of disease, or "flu pandemics," poses one of the world's greatest infectious disease challenges. There has been a lot of progress in pandemic preparedness since the devastating pandemic of 1918, but there is still much to do to improve U.S. and global readiness for the next flu pandemic.
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Pandemic Flu Fighter: Anne Schuchat
Principal Deputy Director of CDC, Dr. Anne Schuchat, is one of the many veterans of CDC's fight on flu. In reflecting on the 2009 influenza pandemic, Dr. Schuchat says the 2009 pandemic taught us to expect the unexpected. "A key difference in our preparedness now is that we explicitly plan for uncertainty."
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| Content source: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases |
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