Article ID: CBB603005256

It Wasn't Supposed to Be a Coronavirus: The Quest for an Influenza A(h5n1)-Derived Vaccine and the Limits of Pandemic Preparedness (2020)

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The COVID-19 pandemic has raised questions about what efforts were made across the world to prepare governments and healthcare systems for such an event. This spotlight article looks at developments made in “pre-pandemic preparedness planning” following a number of outbreaks of influenza type A virus in 1997. At that time, a specific avian influenza subtype, referred to as A(H5N1), wreaked havoc among fowl but also infected humans through direct transmission. The potential for slight genetic mutations that could make A(H5N1) more infectious, allowing human-to-human transmission, presented the threat of a deadly influenza pandemic. As a result, the U.S. government (and others coordinating through the World Health Organization) launched a pandemic preparation plan, including strategies to develop vaccines against A(H5N1) and its genetic lineages each year. This spotlight article discusses the events that led to the specific concern about A(H5N1) among public health officials, as well as early efforts to derive and stockpile an appropriate vaccine to protect against a possible pandemic. This perspective presents the challenges the world has faced, in recent history, in striving to keep one step ahead of pandemic threats.

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Authors & Contributors
Beiner, Guy
Caduff, Carlo
Caianiello, Silvia
Duffin, Jacalyn M.
Green, Monica H.
Jones, David S.
Journals
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Laboratorio dell'ISPF
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Medizin, Gesellschaft, und Geschichte
Science Communication
Publishers
McGill-Queen's University Press
Cambridge University
Cambridge University Press
Franco Angeli
Oxford University Press
University of California Press
Concepts
Public health
Pandemics
Medicine and society
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Infectious diseases
Epidemics
People
Andrea Verga
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
16th century
Places
Canada
Africa
Ottoman Empire
Taiwan
Vietnam
Asia
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