Flu surveillance boosts control, treatment options, says UAB travel-clinic chief
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 19:56
in Health & Medicine
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Because pandemics unfold in unpredictable ways, surveillance of travel-related illness is among the most powerful tools health officials and doctors can use to detect and respond to new pathogens like the novel H1N1 influenza, says the physician who heads the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Travelers' Clinic.