How Communities Can Protect Themselves in the Event of a Flu Pandemic

Download the CDC manual: Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation (PDF - 2.51 MB).

Experts agree that pandemic influenza almost surely will occur again, if not this year or next, then probably soon. If it turns out to be the H5N1 variety, as seems quite possible, we may have a useful vaccine early in the epidemic, although perhaps not in adequate quantities to protect the global population.

However, there is a lot a community can do to protect itself against a flu epidemic. The CDC has published a book of instructions to guide communities that want to try.

Read the coverage of the release of the manual in The Washington Post.