Personal Protective Actions You Can Take in a Flu Pandemic | | Blogs | CDC

Personal Protective Actions You Can Take in a Flu Pandemic | | Blogs | CDC

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Personal Protective Actions You Can Take in a Flu Pandemic

Every fall and winter the United States experiences epidemics of seasonal influenza (flu). Sometimes a flu pandemic occurs due to a new flu virus that spreads and causes illnesses around the world. We cannot predict when a flu pandemic will occur, but over the past 100 years, we have documented four flu pandemics resulting in close to 1 million deaths in the United States alone.