Swineflu outbreak.

Uh, the Korean outbreak.

Let's pretend there's a pandemic.

You were in Japan during the Korean outbreak?

The first recorded pandemic occurred in 1580.

WHO stages the progress of a pandemic.

And eventually Snow made a map of the outbreak.

Indeed, an outbreak would be multiple Katrinas at once.

It's been working to help control pandemic flu,

Add on pandemic threat, you're in big trouble.

By the time the outbreak was over four months later,

However, by far the greatest pandemic killer is influenza.

And SARS is the pandemic that did not occur.

A chain of events led to the outbreak of the war.

There is no need to be unnecessarily anxious about the outbreak.

That's why poverty is pandemic and capitalism can't eliminate crime

What do we know from 1918, the last great pandemic?

Audience member What factors determine the duration of a pandemic?

Pandemic bird flu early detection, early response. It is a litany.

He suspected an outbreak that concentrated would probably involve a single point source.

And that was the last time that London has seen a cholera outbreak since.

When he started GPHlN In 1997, there was an outbreak of bird flu H5N1.

And the danger is that they can cause roughly what's a pandemic.

Do they have the resources to face up to a serious pandemic?

What do you think the likelihood is that there'll be a pandemic?

Fifteen percent said they thought there'd be a pandemic within three years.

Let me show you a simulation of what a pandemic looks like.

It's one way to start looking at intervention with the AlDS pandemic.

This has happened in the Netherlands in the 1990s during the classical swine fever outbreak.

But nobody believes it will actually be particularly effective if we have a real outbreak.

It's not going to do us very much good in a global pandemic.

Do you want to view the pandemic threat the way back in the 1950s people viewed the civil defense issue, and build your own little bomb shelter for pandemic flu?

In terms of mortality, none can compare with the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918.

We've seen it in the financial crisis. We've seen it in the pandemic flu.

Laurie Garret What factors determine the duration of a pandemic, we don't really know.

To say ahh, if this happens then we are going to have a pandemic?

And it didn't occur because GPHlN found the pandemic to be of SARS three months before WHO actually announced it, and because of that, we were able to stop the SARS pandemic.

There is some indication that it may buy you some time in the midst of an outbreak.

In June, the World Health Organization declared the first global flu pandemic in 41 years.

Our investment in trying to prevent pandemic flu is affecting the distribution of possible outcomes.

The key to preventing or mitigating pandemic bird flu is early detection and rapid response.

And they thought that if there was a pandemic, a billion people would get sick.

Six weeks they had all people in the banking industry pretend a pandemic was underway.

The pandemic circulated three times in 18 months in the absence of commercial air travel.

And shortly after the election and the outbreak of violence, the government suddenly imposed a significant media blackout.