Flu Pandemic Preparedness: Research Identifies Effective Measures For Saving Lives

Published: April 6, 2012, 11:34 a.m.

b'BANGKOK\\u2014Research on influenza pandemic preparedness is helping to explain how best to save lives in each country when disease breaks out. Professor Richard Coker with his colleagues at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine\\u2019s unit in Bangkok has found that there are a variety of practical ways of preparing. He told Peter Goodwin that the most important point is to conduct research in your country to identify the measures which can help if \\u2018flu breaks out, and distinguish these from ones which are ineffective, waste money and resources, or divert healthcare efforts from other sectors.'