THE AIRPORT MEDICAL CALL PREPARING FOR THE NEXT PANDEMIC PREPARING FOR THE NEXT PANDEMIC

摘要

In April 2009, the United StatesnCenters for Disease Control (USnCDC) began tracking the outbreaknof influenza like illness thatnappeared in the southwest UnitesnStates and was believed to havenoriginated in Mexico. By earlynMay 2009, almost 2100 cases ofnthe virus had been documentednand were being tracked. In Junen2009, the World Health Organizationn(WHO) declared the influenzanvirus H1N1, the so callednswine flu, to be a pandemic. Bynthe beginning of 2010 almostn17,000 deaths worldwide hadnbeen attributed to H1N1. By thenend of May 2010, the H1N1 virusnhad been reported in more thann214 countries and territories resultingnin over 18,000 deaths. Onn10 August of this year, the WHOndeclared the H1N1 pandemicnover