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Published at www.nejm.org August 12, 2009 (10.1056/NEJMp0906972)

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On June 11, 2009, Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), declared that the status of the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic had reached phase 6 — active transmission on a global scale. Until now, the case fatality rate of this influenza has been quite low, but history teaches us that the situation could take a turn for the worse during the next wave of the pandemic. If a 1918-like pandemic were to occur today, tens of millions of people could die, the vast majority of them in the world's poorest countries.

Fortunately, the prospects for developing an . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle.

This article (10.1056/NEJMp0906972) was published on August 12, 2009, at NEJM.org.

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