Faster vaccination saves lives, money during flu pandemic

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Faster vaccination saves lives, money during flu pandemic

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Shortening the time between the start of a severe flu outbreak and mass vaccination saves lives and money, suggests new research. “We saw what happened in 2009 and we wanted to take a look at if the response was similar to that in a more severe pandemic episode how prepared are we,” said Dr. Nayer Khazeni, the study’s lead author from the Stanford University School of Medicine in California. The World Health Organization declared in June 2009 that an outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus qualified as a pandemic, which is when a virus circulates around the globe and most people do not have immunity against it. The strain was referred to as “swine flu” early on.

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