Based on our discussions with the CHS managers, we recommended increasing qualified staff during peak times (e.g., flu season, administration of childhood vaccines) and increasing facility space for future CHS buildings and renovations.
Mr. Thompson said that more had been done to fight the flu by this administration than by any previous one.
"Despite the urgency and the need in the event of an avian flu pandemic, the administration is slow-walking the much-needed dollars because of their overall budget problems," Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, said.
WASHINGTON -- If the government shuts down in the absence of a budget agreement, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would be unable to support its seasonal influenza program that monitors the spread of flu, the Obama administration has announced.
After IV and PO administrations, FLU was detectable in plasma for up to 24 hours.
Jeff Levi, executive director of Trust for America's Health, a nonprofit organization dedicated to disease prevention, praised the administration's flu preparations.
Indeed, spending for flu under the Bush administration has risen from $39 million in 2001 to a proposed budget of $283 million in fiscal year 2005.
The Bush administration's flu plan, a draft of which was obtained by The New York Times, predicts that international cooperation will end as soon as a pandemic begins.
In a flurry of developments on swine flu preparations, the Obama Administration said vaccine delivery would begin in the first week of October and announced a plan to share vaccine with developing countries, but a study found that young children will likely need two shots for adequate protection.
