Flu pandemic is only a matter of time, officials say
By Debra Pressey
Sunday May 25, 2008
Heather Coit
Julie Pryde displays the components of a pandemic flu kit along with a sample of her flu-related books Monday in her office at C-U Public Health District in Champaign.
CHAMPAIGN – Is there a little Emily Litella voice in your head that keeps wanting to ask: What's all this I hear about a panda epidemic?
Why do people keep saying the pandas are going to make us sick?
We don't even have pandas here. ...
Of course, we all know that's a pandemic we're being warned about.
Some of us are even vaguely aware that we're supposed to be stockpiling extra food and medicines in case a pandemic flu virus confines us to our homes for a while.
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