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Article: HHS provides planning guidance for pandemic-flu preparedness.(Products & Services)(Department of Health and Human Services)
- Article from:
- Journal of Environmental Health
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in cooperation with departments and agencies across the federal government, have launched two new efforts designed to improve state, local, and community preparedness for an influenza pandemic.
CDC has released new guidance on community-planning strategies that state and local community decision makers, as well as individuals, need to consider, taking into account the severity of an influenza pandemic. These strategies are important, because the best protection against pandemic influenza--a vaccine--is not likely to be available at the outset of a pandemic. ...