New System May Help Plan for Flu Outbreak

February 1, 2007 New System May Help Plan for Flu Outbreak (AP)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Julie Gerberding, right, and Mitchell Cohen confer during a large-scale exercise to see how well the CDC would react to a pandemic flu outbreak, in Atlanta Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

(AP) -- The government will predict the severity of the next flu pandemic just like forecasters predict hurricane strength - using a ranking system unveiled Thursday to help states determine when they should take increasingly strong steps to combat flu's spread.

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