Influenza

Surveillance, targeted use of antivirals, could help prevent flu pandemic

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 11th, 2005

Close disease surveillance and targeted use of antiviral drugs could be enough to keep a small outbreak of avian flu from becoming the first influenza pandemic in 36 years, according to a new computer model designed to prepare at-risk nations for a pandemic that could affect millions worldwide.

The best weapon is containment, said Neil Ferguson, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute international research scholar and professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London (England). Ferguson headed a study whose findings were published online by the journal Nature on August 3, 2005.

"It's an enormous undertaking that will require cooperation...

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