I was looking through the local news last night and came across this news story from our local CBS station.
South Burlington, Vermont - January 12, 2006
State officials are preparing for a widespread outbreak of influenza in Vermont.
They say a deadly new type of flu is coming, it's just a matter of time.
Right now, they fear the bird flu. A summit was held Thursday in South Burlington about planning for the next pandemic. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt met with more than 2-hundred Vermont health-care professionals and state leaders.
"Preparing for pandemics is an uniquely local task, it has to be, and at last that preparation works, it saves lives," said Leavitt.
We'll have an exclusive interview with Secretary Leavitt, a lot more information about the Bird Flu, and a look back the flu pandemic of 1918 on the Channel 3 News at 6.
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Okay, so now they have some people good and scared I'm sure. The truth is - NO ONE knows. There might be a major flu outbreak, but then there might not be. They truly have no way of knowing until it hits. In the meantime, I'm sure there are many people out there who are now frightened. In an already stressful world, what good have they truly accomplished now?
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