H5N1 News: Pandemic Flu Outbreak Could Restrict Travel
An AP newswire article, via CNN, reports that:
Sustained person-to-person spread of the bird flu or any other super-influenza strain anywhere in the world could prompt the United States to implement travel restrictions or other steps to block a brewing pandemic, say federal plans released Wednesday.
If a super-flu begins spreading here, states and cities will have to ration scarce medications and triage panicked patients to prevent them from overwhelming hospitals and spreading infection inside emergency rooms, the plan says.
It provides long-awaited guidance to the front-line local officials urging them to figure out now how they would prevent that -- and to practice their own plans to make sure they'll work.
posted by Fergie @ 11/02/2005 07:55:00 AM
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