China boosts pandemic surveillance
Abstract
China is stepping up disease surveillance, drug stockpiling and vaccine development as fear of a second wave of pandemic influenza H1N1 intensifies. Chinese vice-premier Li Keqiang described the country's expanded pandemic plan last week in Beijing at a meeting convened by China's health ministry, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the London-based medical journal The Lancet . Experts warn, however, that the lack of systematic screening of patients with severe respiratory...