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Dealing with a flu pandemic (The Japan Times)
With the World Health Organization having raised the alert for the H1N1 flu pandemic to its highest level — Phase 6 — the government needs to take a coolheaded approach by carefully monitoring how the pandemic evolves. This is the first influenza pandemic since 1968, when the Hong Kong flu killed an estimated 1 million people. H1N1 flu appears to pose a lesser threat than the Spanish flu of ...