Sentence examples for a potential flu from inspiring English sources

They also decided to allocate about $3.8 billion to prepare for a potential flu pandemic.

"The UK is recognised by the World Health Organisation as being one of the best prepared in the world for a potential flu pandemic," he said.

MedImmune will start making FluMist in 2006 at the plant, which may also be used to make a new version now under regulatory review and to produce vaccine for a potential flu pandemic, the company said.

The vacancy leaves the White House facing another big task, at a time when Mr. Obama and Congress have been grappling with the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, two wars and a potential flu pandemic.

PARIS — A couple of weeks ago, a newspaper reporting from the grim housing projects just on the wrong side of the Paris city limits said that vaccinations against a potential flu epidemic there ran significantly lower than would have been expected.

She's Margaret Hamburg, 53, the New York City health commissioner in the 1990s and later an official at the Department of Health and Human Services, where she specialized in bioterrorism and planning a response to a potential flu epidemic.

While we are currently looking for the H3N8 virus, a test unique to this virus would miss a potential influenza infection caused by another flu strain such as H5N1.

She has also found time for a dispute with the French ministry of health about her suggestions for dealing with a potential avian flu epidemic - "it is 90% certain to happen" - based on her research into the plague.

Federal health officials, racing to respond to a potential swine flu pandemic that has already sickened thousands of people around the world, yesterday awarded a major contract for a vaccine to Gaithersburg-based MedImmune.

Dr. E. Russell Alexander, an epidemiologist and public health official who helped curb deadly disease outbreaks and raised concerns about federal plans to thwart a potential swine flu epidemic in the 1970's, when a vaccine was linked to a neurological disorder, died on Feb. 26 at his home in Seattle.

The government announced last week that schools would not be opened until the first week of October to give the government time to prepare for a potential swine flu outbreak, a decision that could have been made anytime over the past three months, while schools were closed for summer break, critics said.