Pandemic flu: Expecting the unexpected
Laboratory Compliance Insider, February 1, 2009
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Quick—what’s your lab’s contingency plan for handling an influenza pandemic? What will your lab’s role be if a pandemic hits? Have you considered staffing? What about your capacity for flu testing?
The first step in preparing for pandemic flu is to acknowledge the absence or inadequacy of an existing plan, says Richard A. Venezia, PhD, D(ABMM), director of microbiology and laboratories of pathology at the University of Maryland Medical System. If you lack a good plan, Venezia suggests developing one with an interdisciplinary team that involves “enough people, but the right people, and not too big a committee.”
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