Anatomy of a Pandemic - PBS Special Airing in the US on December 14, 2009 Osterholm Schuchat Flutrackers

[sharon sanders]

hat tip Fla Medic -

Anatomy of a Pandemic - PBS Special Airing in the US on December 14, 2009

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/pandemic/

[quadjlm]

Re: Anatomy of a Pandemic - PBS Special Airing in the US on December 14, 2009 Osterholm Schuchat Flutrackers

O, how cool. Looking forward to it

[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Anatomy of a Pandemic - PBS Special Airing in the US on December 14, 2009 Osterholm Schuchat Flutrackers

A pandemic's impact on modern society; the effort to combat the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, including the vaccination program.

From PBS site:

What is known about the current H1N1 influenza outbreak? How is the government preparing for the next big threat? Join the PBS NewsHour?s Ray Suarez for an exploration of the science and policy of this year?s swine flu pandemic, from federal vaccination headquarters to big city hospital emergency rooms.

The web page the above quote came from is very good. See:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/pandemic/

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[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Anatomy of a Pandemic - PBS Special Airing in the US on December 14, 2009 Osterholm Schuchat Flutrackers

I thought this was a good program.

It is worthy of note that they discovered the influenza antibodies effective for H5N1 & usable for H1N1, not by studying sequences, but rather by trial and error.

Locally, this program was followed by the 1918 pandemic program with Jeffrey Taubenberger, produced a few years ago. The parallels between early 1916 influenza (precursor to 1918) and current pandemic H1N1 are especially interesting.

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[Michael Coston]

Re: Anatomy of a Pandemic - PBS Special Airing in the US on December 14, 2009 Osterholm Schuchat Flutrackers

If you missed the broadcast, the video is available online at:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/module.html?s=news01s371dqd1c