The H1N1 flu pandemic highlighted critical gaps in response capability that the public health and homeland security sectors had warned about for years. Among them: the United States relies almost entirely on foreign suppliers for influenza vaccines and, perhaps as important, production of vaccines for a novel disease strain can take as long as six months.
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