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PRO/CON DEBATE Public health management of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 infection in Australia: A failure! resp_1675 51..56 1,2,3 4 5,6 GRANT W. WATERER, DAVID S. HUI * AND CHRISTINE R. JENKINS 1School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, 2 Infectious Diseases Unit, Lung Institute of Western Australia, Perth, 5 Concord Clinical School, Department of Thoracic Medicine, Concord Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, 6Airways Group Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 3 Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA, and 4Division of Respiratory Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION In April 2009, severe cases of pneumonia preceded by influenza-like illness were noted to occur in Mexico David S. Hui, MD, FRACP, FRCP and North America. A novel influenza A (H1N1) virus was identified as the cause and it rapidly evolved Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 is a new strain of influenza into a pandemic, leading to a large number of cases virus that was first identified in Mexico and the USA in in Australia despite implementation of public health March and April 2009, respectively. The pandemic control measures. In this paper, two senior academics (H1N1) 2009 virus originated from