http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/4757 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/past-present-flu-pandemics-examined <!--paging_filter--><p>The global response to bioterrorism and AIDS is increasing health system capacity in a way also useful if avian flu strikes, according to experts attending an interdisciplinary conference on Asian flus.</p><p>The bad news, however, is that vast disparities in health care systems still persist and, despite the expanding capacity in recent years, bird flu could still have a devastating impact.</p><p>"I think of what happens if avian flu comes to Lesotho. The mortality and morbidity would just be devastating," said Jim Kim, who heads Harvard Medical School's Department of Social Medicine and serves as the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights in the Harvard School of Public Health.</p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/past-present-flu-pandemics-examined">read more</a></p> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:25:53 -0400 50443248 7538 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu