10 years later : the lasting impacts of the H1N1 flu pandemic response

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• Alternative Title:
  Ten years later : the lasting impacts of the H1N1 flu pandemic response
• Corporate Authors:
  Center for Preparedness and Response (U.S.)
• Description:
  Two days after CDC confirmed the first case, laboratory testing confirmed a second infection with the same virus in another patient. CDC worked closely with state and local public health officials to investigate reported cases and to detect additional cases of human illness with this virus.
  
  On April 21, CDC published a special report in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) that described the first two cases, and requested that state public health laboratories send to CDC all influenza A positive specimens that could not be subtyped. Within three days, additional specimens from patients with the new virus infection arrived at CDC for testing. CDC’s Influenza Division laboratory testing confirmed that these samples also were positive for the virus that would come to be called “2009 H1N1.”
  
  On April 22, 2009, the CDC activated its Emergency Operations Center with Dr. Redd as Incident Commander. Dr. Redd was then the director of the Influenza Coordination Unit (ICU)—a group tasked with coordinating CDC’s preparation for an influenza pandemic, a role that provided unique and useful insight into pandemic response and interagency collaboration.
  
  
• Subjects:
  CDC--history History, 21st Century Infection Control Influenza, Human Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype Pandemics
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Genre:
  Blogs
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:267f95063c8c4a6626609ddd231b78cfc4aff527fc83ee20e231fa3d5e8e071d04232f470b65b2cc26ee20b7c8e6b67c80eb13e6035d757da7383eb2f3bb5489
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/112940/cdc_112940_DS1.pdf
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