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This report summarizes the key findings and recommendations of an ECDC evaluation panel. Crisis management, surveillance, and scientific advice are all addressed.

This report provides a summary of experience from the first wave of H1N1 in the UK, as well as an update on the number of confirmed fatal cases as of 25 November 2009.

Newsvideo reporting that dozens of people have died and hundreds of others have been infected in a viral outbreak in Mexico suspected to have been caused by a strain of swine flu.

Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D., discusses lessons learned from the global response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, identifying some of the key successes and shortcomings in the global response, on the basis of the findings and conclusions of an…

Scenes on an aircraft that had just landed from the USA in Shanghai Pudong Airport in China, on May 10, 2009. Everyone was required to remain in their seats until all had been checked with a laser for high body temperature. Quarantine would have been…

Website reporting back international news regarding the 2009 H1N1 Influenza pandemic

The development of a vaccine is typically a long process involving an intensive research and development stage, animal testing, clinical trials and regulation, and mass production. Given this long timeline, how is a country able to respond to a…

This article discusses the role of politics within the World Health Organization and its impact on determining whether an outbreak qualifies as a "pandemic".

This article discusses the use of social media to convey information about the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, while examining the role that social media plays in spreading misinformation or providing a calm voice of reason.

In this video, Singapore's Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan shares that as more countries get the Influenza A (H1N1) virus and WHO raises its alert to level 6, more countries are moving from the Containment phase to the Mitigating phase.