NASA Sponsors Symposium on Remote Sensing and Control of Insect-Transmitted Diseases

fied, and the rapid exchange of information globally. The following immunologic and molecular questions were addressed as well: What basic research advances would allow us to respond more rapidly after the next human pandemic strain is detected? Is the presence of novel influenza A virus in pigs a predictor of the next influenza pandemic? Is an H2 influenza virus the next human pandemic subtype or are H7 viruses equally possible? Also discussed were the practical issues of vaccine needs, production, and distribution. Conference participants then reviewed international pandemic plans and the U.S. pandemic plan being prepared by the Federal Interagency Group on Pandemic Preparedness.