How the UK is leading the world on flu research, ready to kick in quickly when the next pandemic hits

The new approach to keep research ready to go could be useful for other health emergencies, including other infectious diseases. from http://www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-NDThe next influenza pandemic is a case of when, rather than if. In the last major influenza pandemic in 2009, 201,200 people worldwide died. The UK is now leading the world in how it prepares for such outbreaks, thanks to an innovative network of health research studies being kept in “hibernation”, ready to be activated the moment an outbreak strikes. The approach is a more efficient alternative to the previous practice in the UK. It involved waiting for a pandemic to hit before instigating studies that then struggle to get up to speed quickly enough. The new approach holds promise elsewhere in the

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