The threat of avian influenza and other infectious diseases is far from over, and the possibility of the outbreak of a large scale pandemic still exists.

PALO ALTO Last June, the United Nations World Health Organization, responding to an outbreak of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, boosted the pandemic alert to the highest level, Phase 6, meaning that a pandemic was under way the first time in 41 years that the organization had taken that declared step. But the outbreak appears to have ended less like the rogue wild boar that WHO bureaucrats predicted and more like a roasted pork tenderloin with apples and sage.

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Alberta released the Alberta Pandemic Contingency Plan in November 2003, in order to be prepared for pandemic influenza.

Let's pretend there's a pandemic.

The HIV pandemic continues to escalate.

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WHO stages the progress of a pandemic.

Add on pandemic threat, you're in big trouble.

Indeed, an outbreak would be multiple Katrinas at once.

And eventually Snow made a map of the outbreak.

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What do we know from 1918, the last great pandemic?

Audience member What factors determine the duration of a pandemic?

Do you want to view the pandemic threat the way back in the 1950s people viewed the civil defense issue, and build your own little bomb shelter for pandemic flu?

It's been working to help control pandemic flu, SARS for example.

Pandemic bird flu early detection, early response. It is a litany.

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Secondly, much greater emphasis is required on preventing the outbreak of conflicts.

And it didn't occur because GPHIN found the pandemic to be of SARS three months before WHO actually announced it, and because of that we were able to stop the SARS pandemic.

And the danger is that they can cause roughly what's a pandemic.

Do they have the resources to face up to a serious pandemic?

What do you think the likelihood is that there'll be a pandemic?

15 percent said they thought there'd be a pandemic within three years.

It's one way to start looking at intervention with the AIDS pandemic.

We must face up to the risk of an avian influenza pandemic.

The HIV AIDS pandemic poses serious social and economic challenges to Africa.

He suspected an outbreak that concentrated would probably involve a single point source.

It's not going to do us very much good in a global pandemic.

But nothing will be done until Europe wakes up and faces its pandemic.

In the context of the HIV AIDS pandemic, gender inequality has proven fatal.

The HIV AIDS pandemic continues to pose grave challenges to our development efforts.

At that time, no one had foreseen the escalation of the AIDS pandemic.

The HIV AIDS pandemic has inflicted the single greatest reversal in human development.

Although funding had increased, the response to the pandemic was massively under resourced.

And that was the last time that London has seen a cholera outbreak since.

Laurie Garret What factors determine the duration of a pandemic, we don't really know.

To say ahh, if this happens then we are going to have a pandemic?

We've seen it in the financial crisis. We've seen it in the pandemic flu.

The pandemic has a great effect on youth, weakening family and social coping mechanisms.

But nobody believes it will actually be particularly effective if we have a real outbreak.

This has happened in the Netherlands in the 1990s during the classical swine fever outbreak.

In Mukjar (Western Darfur), the recent spread of a hepatitis E outbreak was quickly stemmed.