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DISCUSSION: What is Pandemic Influenza

COMMENT: risk communication


Submitted by Martha Salyers Active Panelist  on 12/4/07 8:33 AM

Interesting take. A great deal of communication, planning, preparation, etc. is taking place among the groups you listed--for example, see the tabs on the www.pandemicflu.gov webpage, which are directed towards those groups.

I am a believer in the importance of sharing knowledge with the public, and that there are ways to share it that people can understand and feel empowered to act on. That is one of our chief challenges in public health.

One of the big problems that you express is how people who don't have enough to live through the week, or the day, can stock up. There are ways to do it gradually and to work through churches and other religious institutions, civic groups, etc. to help each other prepare as a community.



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