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Massachusetts State Senate Bill, No. 2028 lists the following as possible realities in the event of illness outbreak...
...pictures of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico...
...worried that frontline health workers, who should be among the first in line for the injections, might refuse over safety concerns. That could compromise health workers' ability to treat patients who are hospitalized with the disease. A study of 11 focus groups conducted in Canada prior to the H1N1 outbreak found that health-care workers might refuse to immunize their children and themselves if they believed the risks of a new vaccine outweighed the benefits, according to a report in the Emergency Health Threats Journal in August. Another study published last month in the online edition of the British Medical...
...have been trying to do a lot of things at once since the outbreak of H1N1,” Lipsitch says. “Two of the most important tasks are estimating the transmissibility and the severity of the virus...
...Pagano used statistical models to see how the data accrued, and how accurate it was at the time of the outbreak, he explains...