Pandemic planning.Churches must begin preparing for the influenza pandemic
"It will spread quickly around the globe.," said Dr. Barbara Yaffe, Toronto Public Health's associate medical officer of health and director of communicable disease communicable disease n. A disease that is transmitted through direct contact with an infected individual or indirectly through a vector. Also called contagious disease. control. "Even back in 1918-1919, before jet travel, it spread across the world. If you look at what happened with SAILS--people are traveling back and forth. It could be here within days." Canon Douglas Graydon, the diocese of Toronto's co-ordinator of chaplaincy services and pandemic pandemic /pan·dem·ic/ (pan-dem´ik) 1. a widespread epidemic of a disease. 2. widely epidemic. pan·dem·ic adj. Epidemic over a wide geographic area. n. co-ordinator, said parishes need to have a pandemic pre paredness plan in place and not simply rely on government, whose social and health care resources are bound to be overwhelmed o·ver·whelm tr.v. o·ver·whelmed, o·ver·whelm·ing, o·ver·whelms 1. To surge over and submerge; engulf: waves overwhelming the rocky shoreline. 2. a. by the emergency. The Anglican |
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