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Pandemic: A Horizon Guide
This is a story played out in an era of unprecedented technical change in which new scientific advances have given us the tools to confront some of nature's greatest threats and where shifting national rivalries have shaped their implementation. It is also a story of the television age where each new wave of disease reflects the change in nature of reporting. Science's battle with pandemic disease is an ongoing power struggle and since its advent television has been there for every success and failure.
In March 2009 a new form of the H1N1 virus called Swine Flu, because of its similarity to a virus found in pigs, put the globe under the latest threat of a pandemic. H1N1 shows all the sinister hallmarks of a pandemic. It's a virus that's new to humans and to which we have no immunity. It can cause serious disease and it's transmitted from person to person over a wide spread area.
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