The Long-Term Evidence for Vaccines
Laurie Garrett and Dana March point out that vaccinations against influenza do not mrerely protect the population from the virus itself but...
Speaker: Michael T. Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, Professor in the School of Public Health, and Adjunct Professor in the Medical School at the University of Minnesota
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
March 20, 2007
Listen to Michael T. Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, and author of the recent Foreign Affairs article, "Unprepared for a Pandemic", discuss the current threat of the pandemic flu as part of CFR's State and Local Officials Conference Call Series.
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