Toward better pandemic planning: An urgent priority – Mortimer – – Reviews in Medical Virology – Wiley

If a virologist had been asked in the year 2000 what the risk of a pandemic was, they would probably have answered that influenza could never be ruled out but that nothing else was in immediate prospect. There had been influenza pandemics in 1889/1890, 1918/1919, 1957, and 1968/1969, and false alarms in 1976 (swine ‘flu) and 1997 (chicken ‘flu); but by 2000, there had been an unusually long interval without another flu pandemic. It had, however, come to be understood that zoonotic genomic reasso…

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