Can a Pandemic Flu Be Contained?
March 12, 2006 by Adelle Tilton
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
It depends who you ask. Experts are divided on whether avian influenza, or bird flu, can be contained should it become transmiissable human-to-human, and should it become a pandemic.
One camp believes that once it is a contagion between people, all bets are off and the pandemic flu will sweep the world. Fears of a 50% mortality rate would scare even the bravest among us. Other experts believe that with aggressive antiviral treatment, pandemic flu could be contained in a geographical location, and could be prevented from spreading out of control.
