Document Type
Contributions to Book
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
Vaccines are the most important line of defense to protect public health and the spread of disease during influenza pandemics. Yet the 2009 experience with pandemic H1N1 influenza showed that manufacturers, wealthy and poor governments were completely unprepared for the demands that global demand for vaccine production and distribution might impose. This chapter analyzes the failures of the system in 2009-10 with the aim of facilitating greater preparedness for future influenza pandemics.
Recommended Citation
in The Public Health Response to 2009 H1N1 (Michael Stoto and Melissa Higdon eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2015).