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I was interviewed yesterday by Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris, for their show, Daily Debrief, on Federal News Radio in Washington, D.C.. We discussed the H1N1 Flu Summit focusing on some of the challenges facing the public and government officials for the Fall.

The audio for the eight-minute interview can be downloaded from the Federal News Radio website here.

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Almost six in ten Americans (59%) believe it is very or somewhat likely that there will be widespread cases of Influenza A (H1N1) with people getting very sick this coming fall or winter, according to a new poll released today by the Harvard Opinion Research Program at the Harvard School of Public Health. The full survey [...]

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I had the opportunity to attend Thursday’s U.S. H1N1 Flu Preparedness Summit held at the campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. The all-day event was organized by the Obama Administration to focus attention on preparation for and response to a possible more serious H1N1 outbreak in the Fall. Five hundred [...]

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I am in Bethesda, Maryland to cover the “H1N1 Flu Preparedness Summit” which will take place Thursday at the National Institutes of Health. The schedule of speakers is here. I will be writing about the Summit on the blog. But if you want to follow the proceedings contemporaneously you can do so on the web [...]

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The Obama Administration will be holding a H1N1 Flu Preparedness Summit on Thursday at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan will host the all-day parley to further prepare the nation for the possibility [...]

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Recently on the blog I have been focusing attention on citizen preparedness for the potential of a more serious outbreak of H1N1 flu in the Fall. And so I wanted to highlight an interesting article from the news service of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP). The piece, “Experts stress [...]

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Though public and media attention on the H1N1/Swine Flu outbreak has waned, there is a clearly need to examine its lessons for future citizen preparedness and response — whether that be for a reoccurrence of a more deadly H1N1 flu in the Fall or another national emergency situation. So, I thought I would contact some experts [...]

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Do you know how to say “pandemic flu” in Creole? (PANDEMIK FLOU) Czech? (NA PANDEMII CHŘIPKY) Korean? (악성 독감) Or in 20 other languages? Now, you can. New York City’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) has recently released a new pamphlet , “Ready New York: Pandemic Flu”. The guide is available for download on the [...]

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Though public and media attention on the H1N1/Swine Flu outbreak has waned, there is a need to examine the lessons of the past couple weeks for future citizen preparedness and response — whether that be for a reoccurrence of a more deadly H1N1 flu possibly in the Fall or another national emergency situation. 

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John Bussey of the Wall Street Journal wrote an interesting piece in Friday’s edition (n.b. it is behind a pay wall) about what the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak might teach us about dealing with the H1N1 flu. Bussey, who is currently the Journal’s Washington bureau chief and covered Asia for the paper during 2003, [...]

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