October 26, 2007 FEMA Emergency Management Higher ...

[Excerpt: "Lessons from Past Pandemics: In a recent report issued in January 2005, WHO officials identified key lessons from the three pandemics of the past century (see References: WHO: Avian influenza: assessing the pandemic threat). These lessons are summarized as follows. Pandemics behave as unpredictably as the viruses that cause them. ................
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