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Do You Have a Pandemic Influenza Story to Share?

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This year, 2008, marks the 90th anniversary of the 1918 Pandemic. That outbreak is among the most memorable in the annals of public health history and is one of the touchstones for today's public health preparedness initiatives. Because a pandemic flu outbreak touches the lives of so many people throughout the world, oral histories of the illness have often been shared among family members for many generations afterwards.

In fact, one of the highlights of the HHS/CDC Crisis and Emergency Risk Communications (CERC) training is the time allotted for participants to share their family's pandemic flu story.

Therefore, to mark this important anniversary of the 1918 pandemic and to highlight as well the 1957 (Asian) and 1968 (Hong Kong) pandemic flu events, the CDC is gathering these pandemic flu stories.

The stories are formatted into an online, interactive "storybook" that includes photos and videos. If you have a pandemic flu story that you would like to share within the pages of the Pandemic Influenza Storybook , please complete the attached form.

Pandemic Influenza Storybook Project
1600 Clifton Road, MS D-14
Atlanta, GA 30333
404.639.7232
ATTN: Sharon KD Hoskins
shoskins@cdc.gov

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