Pandemic Preparedness

In recent months, governments and health care experts have become increasingly concerned about the potential for a global flu pandemic, and the serious risks to individuals and communities such a pandemic would pose. Local communities, like Howard County, will need to be prepared to respond to a pandemic. As one expert has said, the pandemic will be global, but the response will be local.

In the anticipation of such a disaster, the Howard County community is mobilizing to prepare, with the Howard County Health Department, Howard County General Hospital and CERN in the lead. This section of the CERN website provides detailed information related to pandemic preparedness. It also includes references to national sites containing more facts about pandemic influenza.