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"Pandemic Influenza:
A Story of Birds, Pigs and Humans"

Leonard Mermel, DO, medical director of Rhode Island Hospital infection control department, and professor of medicine at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University discusses the history, biology, spread and how to prevent the pandemic flu.

Part One:
History and overview of pandemic flu
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Part Two:
The biology of the flu and its global nature
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Part Three:
How influenza is spread and its treatment
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Part Four:
Preventing and slowing down a pandemic virus
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Lifespan Healthy Living Video Series

"Pandemic Influenza: A Story of Birds, Pigs and Humans"

Lifespan Healthy Living
Video Series

"Pandemic Influenza:
A Story of Birds, Pigs and Humans"