The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? Workshop Summary

by Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine

Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pandemic, which many experts believe to be inevitable. Moreover, recent problems with the availability and strain-specificity of vaccine for annual flu epidemics in some countries and the rise of pandemic strains of avian flu in disparate geographic regions have alarmed experts about the world's ability...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309095042
• ISBN13: 9780309095044
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"