Influenza

Experts Say Clock Is Ticking for Next Flu Pandemic

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, October 19th, 1998

Experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have warned that it is only a matter of time before the appearance of a new strain of influenza virus which humans have not previously encountered or developed immunity against.

According to Dr. Walter Orenstein, CDC, "The influenza clock is ticking; we just don't know what time it is ..."

For more than ten weeks in 1997, deaths from influenza and pneumonia exceeded epidemic proportions in 122 cities across the country. In California, flu-related illnesses hospitalized 50,000 Medicare recipients and ranked as the sixth leading cause of death among seniors. In 1998, many healthcare...

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