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FLAT-FOOTED ON FLU; 'Nobody is prepared' for avian outbreak-and that includes Chicago.(News)
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Byline: SHRUTI DATE SINGH
With rising fears of an avian flu pandemic, state and local officials here have made little headway in preparing to fight a virus that could find a major point of entry at O'Hare International Airport.
"Nobody in the country is prepared for an (avian flu) pandemic,'' says Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Assn. in Washington, D.C. "If a pandemic flu hit today, we just aren't prepared for it.''
Local public health officials say they are poised to respond to the latest flu threat-the strain of influenza that's ...
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