The threat of avian influenza and other infectious diseases is far from over, and the possibility of the outbreak of a large scale pandemic still exists.

Measles outbreak.

The Austerity Pandemic

PALO ALTO Last June, the United Nations World Health Organization, responding to an outbreak of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, boosted the pandemic alert to the highest level, Phase 6, meaning that a pandemic was under way the first time in 41 years that the organization had taken that declared step. But the outbreak appears to have ended less like the rogue wild boar that WHO bureaucrats predicted and more like a roasted pork tenderloin with apples and sage.

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The Pandemic That Wasn t

Let's pretend there's a pandemic.

Alberta released the Alberta Pandemic Contingency Plan in November 2003, in order to be prepared for pandemic influenza.

The HIV pandemic continues to escalate.

WHO stages the progress of a pandemic.

Add on pandemic threat, you're in big trouble.

Strengthen global disease outbreak surveillance and response capacity by increasing resources for the World Health Organization Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network

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Indeed, an outbreak would be multiple Katrinas at once.

And eventually Snow made a map of the outbreak.

Eliminating the risks of an accidental outbreak of war

The outbreak lasted from December 1997 to January 1998.

(a) Preventing the outbreak of international and domestic conflicts

What do we know from 1918, the last great pandemic?

Audience member What factors determine the duration of a pandemic?

For the outbreak of hostilities read incidents of hostile acts

It's been working to help control pandemic flu, SARS for example.

Pandemic bird flu early detection, early response. It is a litany.

International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza Statement of core principles

Do you want to view the pandemic threat the way back in the 1950s people viewed the civil defense issue, and build your own little bomb shelter for pandemic flu?

It had been closed since the outbreak of hostilities in Kivu.

And the danger is that they can cause roughly what's a pandemic.

Do they have the resources to face up to a serious pandemic?

What do you think the likelihood is that there'll be a pandemic?

15 percent said they thought there'd be a pandemic within three years.

It's one way to start looking at intervention with the AIDS pandemic.

We must face up to the risk of an avian influenza pandemic.

The HIV AIDS pandemic poses serious social and economic challenges to Africa.

HIV AIDS pandemic in Namibia has an impact on the Namibian children.

And it didn't occur because GPHIN found the pandemic to be of SARS three months before WHO actually announced it, and because of that we were able to stop the SARS pandemic.

Secondly, much greater emphasis is required on preventing the outbreak of conflicts.

The outbreak had not subsided by the end of the reporting period.

That return was precipitated by the outbreak of conflict in the region.

(b) Reduce hotbeds of tension and prevent the outbreak of armed conflict

It's not going to do us very much good in a global pandemic.

But nothing will be done until Europe wakes up and faces its pandemic.

In the context of the HIV AIDS pandemic, gender inequality has proven fatal.

The HIV AIDS pandemic continues to pose grave challenges to our development efforts.

At that time, no one had foreseen the escalation of the AIDS pandemic.

The HIV AIDS pandemic has inflicted the single greatest reversal in human development.