Preparing for an Influenza Pandemic

This commentary in today's New England Journal of Medicine is using the science of the Internet to it's fullest!

Listen to an audiocast of an interview from Dr. Michael Osterman about preparing for an influenza pandemic. This is courtesy of NEJM and is a supplement to the article Osterholm MT. Preparing for the Next Pandemic. N Engl J Med 2005;352(18):1839-42. When you are finished listening, NEJM give also gives you the opportunity to view an interactive figure showing the proposed mechanism of the cytokine storm evoked by the influenza virus.

Isn't this the best use of internet technology? You have to be just slightly impressed! If I had copyright clearance I could download it to my palmOne (or iPod) and listen to it there. The technology is there, we just have to use it!

Dr. Osterholm is the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, the associate director of the National Center for Food Protection and Defense, and a professor of public health at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Rachel Gotbaum, the interviewer, is an independent producer based in Boston.