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Learning from the First Pandemic of the Twenty-First Century
The response to the first influenza pandemic of the twenty-first century was facilitated by years of preparation for a possible pandemic caused by the avian influenza H5N1. The threat of an H5N1 pandemic had l...
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Introduction
We have been living with influenza as long as history can remember, and we are so used to the fact that this disease is part of life that we usually do not pay much attention to it. Even the science of influen...
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Waiting for a pandemic
After a quiet period of nearly 30 years, influenza strains with hemagglutinin types that have not been seen in humans previously started to jump from birds to man, suggesting the risk of a new influenza pandem...
