Lessons to Be Learnt About Influenza A, Four Years After the Public Alarm

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Nov. 22, 2013 ? With autumn just around the corner and a new flu strain lying in wait for us, the presentation of a study analysing the management of the 2009 influenza A crisis could not, if anything, be better timed. The paediatrician Eider O?ate has just read her thesis in which she analyses how the H1N1 virus affected the paediatric population in Gipuzkoa during that period: what was done well, what was done badly, and whether the health services allowed themselves to be led by the public alarm rather than by exclusively clinical criteria when deciding hospital admissions. Dr O?ate has analysed the information gathered during the pandemic to address all these questions, and responses to them could be of use when tackling a similar situation in the future.

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