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		Anatomy of a Pandemic - H1N1 Flu

How serious is the current H1N1 influenza outbreak? What can the U.S. do to protect against the next big threat? These are the questions explored in the WETA/NewsHour documentary "Anatomy of a Pandemic."

The program contextualizes the current outbreak with pandemics of the past and explains the science of the current H1N1 vaccine, next generation vaccine techniques, and the quest to create a potential universal vaccine.

Following the broadcast, you can follow up with two of the leading public policy experts. The forum is open until noon on December 15, 2009. Answers will be posted later that evening.

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Rear Admiral Anne Schuchat is the director of Centers for Disease Control's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and has worked at CDC since 1988 on immunization and infectious diseases. Prior to her current appointment, she served as the director of CDC's National Immunization Program (NIP); acting director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID); chief of the Respiratory Diseases Branch at NCID.

Mike Osterholm, PhD, MPH, is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), director of the NIH-supported Minnesota Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (MCEIRS) within CIDRAP, a professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, and an adjunct professor in the Medical School, University of Minnesota.



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	At Forum, Bernanke Defends Fed's Aggressive Moves

	On July 26, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke joined Jim Lehrer in Kansas City, Mo., for an on-the-record forum about how the central bank has responded to the financial crisis and its changing role on the road to economic recovery. The forum aired on the NewsHour during the week of July 27.

	"It's a problem called a too-big-to-fail problem. These companies have turned out to be too big to allow to collapse, because [...] when the elephant falls down, all the grass gets crushed as well."

	-Ben Bernanke

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