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I am meeting with the Beijing Haidian District CDC on Thursday Beijing time. As part of the meeting they have asked me to give a talk discussing H1N1 and US/WHO policies. I thought it would be useful to take advantage of our distributed network which has done a lot of thinking about this: what is the current word on H1N1 (swine-origin) influenza?

“The problem, WHO officials have said, is that after years of preparing for the threat of a pandemic strain of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus, many governments and people think of a pandemic as a deadly worldwide plague.”

Apparently, the WHO is now “very close” to declaring a pandemic. See below for an interesting CIDRAP piece.

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