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this is an influenza pandemic. As imm

Influenza pandemics vary, and in order to mitigate or even prevent some of their most concerning impacts there is a need for specific and general preparedness. All European Union countries have pandemic preparedness plans and most of them have updated these in the light of the 2009 pandemic experience and of the many evaluations which followed it.

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