Each new outbreak of disease confronts projects such as this one, as well as the implementing partners and global community, with a fresh challenge, because its early spread outpaces the gathering of scientific evidence needed to formulate containment policies. Each successive outbreak is followed by an initial opaque period characterized by a frustrating lack of scientific evidence on which to base policies and technical guidance. In the early days of severe acute respiratory syndrome, the avian influenza, and throughout the H1N1 pandemic, uncertainty hindered decision making, including the decisions on the timing of changing policy from containment to mitigation.
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Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
Project Number
39662-012
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Self-evaluation
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