Kathleen M. Neuzil, M.D., M.P.H. Published at www.nejm.org September 10, 2009 (10.1056/NEJMe0908224)
"Policy decisions regarding influenza rest on judgments about the behavior of the virus, the impact of the disease and our ability to interdict its course. But the virus is capricious, the disease elusive, and our remedies imperfect," said a report on the 1976 swine-flu epidemic at Fort Dix.1

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