Twenty-five
million people died of the Spanish flu, but few recall the details of
the pandemic today. With the advent of avian flu come new fears and
new preparedness efforts, but how much concern is too much-or not enough?
Issues of crisis communications, class-based medical services, media
hype, and epidemics and globalization will be discussed by Dr. David
Gifford, head of the RI Health Department; artist and activist
Jay Critchley; Dr. Kirsty Duncan,
medical geographer and author of Hunting The 1918 Flu: One Scientist's
Search For A Killer Virus; and Dr. Leonard A. Mermel,
Medical Director for the Department of Epidemiology and Infection Control
at the Rhode Island Hospital.
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