MIT holds forum on preventing infectious diseases

Reported by NECN on Tuesday, 10 November 2009 (on November 10, 2009)

(NECN: Scot Yount, Cambridge, Mass.) - The slow delivery of the H1N1 flu vaccine has been a headline story for weeks. Because of that, there's been a push to find other medicines to battle the virus.
Tonight, a special forum was held at MIT.
"Influenza virus is impossible to control and once they emerge it is impossible to predict what they will do."
Which is why vaccination is so important. The global public health concern over the H1N1 virus and the shortage of vaccine has resulted in long lines of people anxious to vaccinate themselves and their families all around the U.S.
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