For more recent large-scale urban swine flu programs, the delay times to punctuation were less than two years, compared to the six year delay time shown in Figure 4 for the small-scale Army program.
However, no large-scale outbreak of bird flu was found among resident birds.
Tiny local hospitals, far more accustomed to treating flu symptoms than large-scale emergencies, were quickly overwhelmed and had to dispatch the injured all across south Georgia.
The feds have contracted with both Sanofi-Aventis and Chiron to produce a prototype avian-flu vaccine for large-scale trials that are expected to get under way very soon with healthy adults.
To my mind, a single FPG value of 6.0 does not justify diagnosing diabetes.'" An unforeseeable external factor arose during the study, the swine-flu epidemic with concomitant large-scale vaccination of the population, resulting in changes to at least nursing practice for many months and clearly causing extra work.
In India, as state animal husbandry workers went about culling birds here on Monday, poultry farm owners hovered nearby, some angrily disputing the government's conclusions that large-scale poultry deaths in the area were the result of bird flu.
In this case, large-scale use of AVs could lead to the preferential survival of flu viruses that are resistant to AVs.
Swine flu has served to highlight a widely held view that large-scale international travel has hastened the spread of epidemics around the world.
A leading NHS hospital warned a month ago that a mutated strain of flu not covered by this winter's vaccine was causing large-scale life-threatening illness, but claims its findings were not taken seriously by the government's public health agency.
The author predicts that both intentionally-caused large-scale bioevent-disasters, as well as natural bioevents such as SARS and avian flu pandemics will be an exception and are likely to be followed by PTSD rates approaching those that follow warzone exposure.
