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Article: House Members Hear Testimony On Pandemic Flu Preparedness.
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- BIOWORLD Today
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- November 3, 2009
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Washington Editor
WASHINGTON - Industry leaders urged lawmakers at a Congressional hearing last week to step up federal government efforts to prepare for a pandemic flu outbreak.
Members of the House Subcommittee on Health, part of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, listened to testimony from several drug company executives, as well as top public health officials, on the state of the nation's preparedness for what all agreed is a potential health crisis looming on the horizon. And several speakers indicated that the country is anything but ready.
"The U.S. has to make a commitment now," stressed Dominick Iacuzio, the medical director at F. ...