Nhim Vanda

The United Nations kicked off a four-day pandemic preparedness exercise this week in southeast Asia with the intent to increase the region’s ability to handle the widespread effects that accompany a pandemic.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America has formally requested in a July 15 letter that the Centers for Disease Control recommend mandatory vaccinations for influenza for healthcare workers.

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Pharmaceutical companies have begun the process of finding out where things went wrong in their experiences during the less damaging than expected H1N1 pandemic.

Colonel Geoffrey Ling

The preliminary results of a study aimed at predicting the demonstrable outbreak of certain illnesses soon after initial exposure were announced this week at the 8th Annual Biodefense Vaccines and Therapeutics in Washington, D.C.

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Quicker identification of pandemic viruses and a switch from egg to cell-based production were short term measures President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology made to help quicken influenza vaccine production, according to a report by