Policymakers now pay less attention to preventing and preparing for pandemic influenza than they should, and yet we know we have to stay alert and boost preparedness for the next pandemic outbreak.

目前，决策者们对流感预防和准备工作的重视程度不够，但我们清楚我们必须要保持警惕，为下一次流感爆发做好准备。

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Since the outbreak of the pandemic, it has made its way around the world.

新冠疫情爆发以后已经蔓延到世界各地。

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Manage new disease outbreaks and threats - including a potential pandemic influenza outbreak.

应对新的疾病暴发和威胁-包括潜在的大流行性流感暴发。

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Conference organizer, Dr.Greg Pappas of the American non-governmental organization,or NGO, called Interaction says that while it is too early to tell whether the current outbreak will turn into a global pandemic, poorer countries in particular need to be prepared for the day when one does hit.

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For years the UK's health professionals have been preparing for a pandemic flu outbreak that they fear could lead to huge numbers of deaths and seriously disrupt the functioning of the nation.

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No authorities are calling the outbreak a pandemic.

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But major organisational changes in Northern Ireland health care provisions came into place on 1 April 2009, just weeks before the outbreak of the pandemic.

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