Giuseppe
Emeritus
[Source: Nature, full text: (LINK).]
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Mutant flu: preparing for a pandemic
Eric S. Starbuck
Journal name: Nature
Volume: 482, Page: 470
Date published: (23 February 2012)
DOI: doi:10.1038/482470a
Published online 22 February 2012
We at the global humanitarian organization Save the Children agree that controversy over lab-created H5N1 avian influenza virus should not detract from the larger concern of global preparedness for a flu pandemic (Nature 482, 131; 2012). In a pandemic flu situation, when all countries and responding organizations are stricken, we think it is unrealistic to hope that the most resource-poor communities around the world will receive adequate supplies of vaccine, antivirals or antibiotics. We believe in preparing now so that community leaders, and the organizations working with them, can mitigate the effects of a severe wave of flu in the absence of substantial outside resources.
-Journal name: Nature
Volume: 482, Page: 470
Date published: (23 February 2012)
DOI: doi:10.1038/482470a
Published online 22 February 2012
We at the global humanitarian organization Save the Children agree that controversy over lab-created H5N1 avian influenza virus should not detract from the larger concern of global preparedness for a flu pandemic (Nature 482, 131; 2012). In a pandemic flu situation, when all countries and responding organizations are stricken, we think it is unrealistic to hope that the most resource-poor communities around the world will receive adequate supplies of vaccine, antivirals or antibiotics. We believe in preparing now so that community leaders, and the organizations working with them, can mitigate the effects of a severe wave of flu in the absence of substantial outside resources.
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