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

We believe that if we could fill these 10 gaps, we have a chance to help really reduce the risk of a pandemic.

The Austerity Pandemic

The Pandemic That Wasn t

Let's pretend there's a pandemic.

So here s a primer on the swine flu pandemic risk communication, framed in terms of what health officials shouldn t do when they re telling you about this new disease.

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

The HIV pandemic continues to escalate.

WHO stages the progress of a pandemic.

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

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5. Don t fight the adjustment reaction. While panic is rare, it is natural for people to need some time to adjust to a new risk and this swine flu pandemic is new to us all.

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

Audience member What factors determine the duration of a pandemic?

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

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

International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza Statement of core principles

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?

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.

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

HIV AIDS pandemic in Namibia has an impact on the Namibian children.

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.

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.

As a byproduct of globalization, crises that once burned locally and then quickly flamed out now risk sparking international conflagrations. A pandemic, flood, or cyber attack in the City of London or Wall Street could send the entire world into a financial tailspin.

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.

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In June, the World Health Organization declared the first global flu pandemic in 41 years.

Our investment in trying to prevent pandemic flu is affecting the distribution of possible outcomes.

Six weeks they had all people in the banking industry pretend a pandemic was underway.

The pandemic circulated three times in 18 months in the absence of commercial air travel.

The key to preventing or mitigating pandemic bird flu is early detection and rapid response.

And they thought that if there was a pandemic, a billion people would get sick.