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DISCUSSION: What is Pandemic Influenza

COMMENT: Not your typical disaster


Submitted by Catherine Jackie Mitchell on 12/4/07 7:41 AM

I agree with you. "Better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness."

BUT

When we are faced with something that will overtake the entire world, albeit in waves and areas of epidemic, to my mind the all-hazards approach has hurt in that people see this as a typical disaster, if there is such a thing.


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What does "severe pandemic" mean?

Submitted by Roy Kamen on 12/4/07 05:46 AM