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How should we plan for pandemics?

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Doshi, Peter
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Abstract
WHO has revised its definition of pandemic flu in response to current experience with A/H1N1. Peter Doshi argues that our plans for pandemics need to take into account more than the worst case scenarios The current flu pandemic raises a public health policy question that could have been asked after the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS): what is the proper response to clinically mild or epidemiologically limited (small number) outbreaks caused by new viruses? Over the past four years, pandemic preparations have focused on responding to worst case scenarios. As a result, officials responded to the H1N1 outbreak as an unfolding disaster. Measures were taken that in hindsight may be seen as alarmist, overly restrictive, or even unjustified. Assumptions about the nature of emerging infections along with advanced laboratory surveillance have changed the way we understand epidemics and we need a new framework for thinking about epidemic disease.
Date issued
2009-09
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58713
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society
Journal
BMJ: British Medical Journal
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group, Ltd.
Citation
Doshi, Peter. “Calibrated response to emerging infections.” BMJ 2009;339:b3471 © 2009 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
Version: Final published version
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0959-8146
0959-8138

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