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Published online 10 June 2009 | Nature 459, 756-757 (2009) | doi:10.1038/459756a
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Avian influenza aided readiness for swine flu
Despite gains from threat of bird flu, pandemic preparedness is patchy.
With the World Health Organization discussing whether to declare, as Nature went to press, that a swine influenza pandemic has arrived, doctors, scientists and government officials say the enormous preparedness efforts of recent years have aided the world's response to the virus.
"Clearly, the global preparedness for dealing with an influenza outbreak is much better now than it was five or six years ago," says virologist Malik Peiris of the University of Hong Kong.
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