"(I) am hoping that we see an end to this pandemic in my lifetime, " Davis says.
"This is consistent with the pattern we have seen through the pandemic last year, " she said.
But the word pandemic was very much on the minds of the TED community.
New challenges have come to the fore climate change, pandemic disease, food and energy shortages.
Figuring out which new viruses could mutate into the next pandemic won't be easy.
"I wouldn't say a pandemic is more likely than it was a year ago, " Fouchier said.
The centerpiece of Wolfe's work is trying to stop the next pandemic before it starts.
Although the pandemic has been declared by officials as over, the virus is still circulating.
During the pandemic, the H1N1 virus crowded out other influenza viruses to become the dominant virus.
Nor are these the only possible mutations that could start a pandemic, they said.
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The day will also mark the 17th observance of the pandemic that began a quarter-century ago.
And what does the administration think about the possibility of this turning into a full pandemic?
The World Health Organization declared the H1N1 virus a global pandemic on June 11.
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"It says it's going to be harder than we thought" to control a pandemic, Simonsen says.
But to think they'll stop a pandemic, that is just not going to happen.
But the World Health Organization cautions that it cannot say whether it will cause a pandemic.
The World Health Organization in June declared a Level 6 worldwide pandemic, the organization's highest classification.
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When a pandemic takes hold, it kills millions of people in many different countries.
As countries have started to plan for a pandemic, many have begun stockpiling Tamiflu.
Then the AIDS pandemic triggered a cascade of antiviral research, spawning 23 HIV drugs in 15 years.
For the most part, our strategy for preparing for pandemic flu focuses on the development of vaccines.
What we need are oral drugs that can combat a wide range of different pandemic flu strains.
Michael McGimpsey said he wants to see how the recommendations can been built into future pandemic planning.
Other useful protections against H1N1 are vaccines, which the WHO recommends against pandemic infections, Fukuda said.
Barry is the author of "The Great Influenza, " perhaps the signature history of the devastating 1918 pandemic.
" And he noted that a pandemic describes "the geographic spread of the disease, not its severity.
"We have a sort of hierarchy of likelihood viruses that may spark a pandemic, " says Dr Hay.
Lilly's (nyse: LLY - news - people ) problems are part of a pandemic.
What we really need are potent antiviral medicines with broad activity against many different strains of pandemic virus.
His article "The Coming Financial Pandemic" was on the cover of the March issue of Foreign Policy magazine.
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