But worries persist that Yudhoyono's nation is a soft underbelly in resistance to a possible avian-flu pandemic emanating from Asia.
He includes the 1918 flu pandemic as an analogy to possible bird flu and concludes it would have virtually no impact.
Reserves are also retained to pay for for unexpected events such as a flu pandemic or a foot and mouth outbreak.
's profits and its sales drop, the swine flu pandemic couldn't have come at a better time for the drug company.
By contrast, the 1918 flu pandemic that killed 50 million had an incubation period of two days (and an R of 2).
Work began on a big project to understand potential flu pandemic threats.
The strain raised fears of a global flu pandemic, but was contained after a mass slaughter of chickens thought to be carrying the virus.
Economic issues are now as contagious as a flu pandemic, which is perhaps why the meltdown of 2008 seemed more severe and dangerous than its predecessors.
Yet in the event of a flu pandemic they are the only weapon available for treating patients in the months before a vaccine can be developed.
Spurring more parents to seek vaccinations in recent years was the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 and the rush it prompted for scarce vaccine, some pediatricians say.
If the swine flu pandemic of 2009-10 was part of this pattern, the crossing of viral strains must have had something to do with birds as well as pigs.
During the flu pandemic of 1918, cases began in the spring and then faded away during the summer, only to come back with a vengeance in the fall and winter.
More likely the action will be in South and East Asia, especially if a flu pandemic can be avoided and resource issues can be alleviated with bountiful Russia as part of the mix.
"I think the world is infinitely better prepared than it was 90 years ago, " said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl, referring to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that killed as many as 20 million people.
Public health crises of the past decade, like SARS in 2003 or the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009, have highlighted how easy it is for diseases to spread around the world, including through air travel.
Up until a couple of years ago there were no vaccines routinely offered to pregnant women in the UK. The swine flu pandemic changed that, and now all pregnant women are offered a seasonal flu jab.
The goal of the pilot program was to evaluate how long it would take to vaccinate a community in the event that mass vaccinations (from a flu pandemic) were required in a short period of time.
"We have a medical team within the airline as well as a contingency planning group which has met for the past few years to look at the issue of a flu pandemic, " A British Airways spokeswoman said.
Paul Flynn MP, who is part of a Council of Europe investigation into allegations of drug company influence on the World Health Organisation and government policies, reacts to the government's handling of a possible swine flu pandemic.
Some doctors paint a scary worst-case scenario: A flu pandemic breaks out and beats down the immune systems of millions of people, and then staphylococci--the hospital strain and the nastier variant in the community--run wild on a killing spree.
At the same time, an alphabet soup of influenzas, including the new H7N9 outbreak in China, smoldering incidents of H5N1 bird flu in Southeast Asia, and even periodic reminders of the 2009 H1NI swine flu pandemic, remain front of mind.
Medical historians believe that a large proportion of those who died of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 were not killed by the flu virus, but by secondary bacterial pneumonia, which was difficult to treat before the introduction of antibiotics.
Researchers at the University of Iowa, studying the 2009 swine flu pandemic, compared fluctuations in the use of certain phrases on Twitter with flu cases reported through the US Centre for Disease Control, which has its own sophisticated flu surveillance system.
The move from level three to level four on the WHO's six-level threat scale means the world body has determined the virus is capable of significant human-to-human transmission -- a major step toward a flu pandemic, said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the agency's assistant director-general.
The H1N1 "swine flu" pandemic killed about 300, 000 people worldwide.
Most flu and public health experts consider them to have been overly alarmist, and that their decision during the week of April 27 to raise the pandemic flu threat to the penultimate Level 5, "Pandemic Imminent, " far outpaces the data that have accumulated and is therefore unwarranted.
"H1N1 flu has been around both this winter and last winter following the pandemic flu previously so it's not a particularly unusual thing to have happened, " he said.
For the most part, our strategy for preparing for pandemic flu focuses on the development of vaccines.
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