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  1. Ethics and public health emergencies: Rationing vaccines.Matthew K. Wynia - 2006 - American Journal of Bioethics 6 (6):4 – 7.
    There are three broad ethical issues related to handling public health emergencies. They are the three R's - rationing, restrictions and responsibilities. Recently, a severe shortage of annual influenza vaccine in the US, combined with the threat of pandemic flu, has provided an opportunity for policy makers to think about rationing in very concrete terms. Some lessons from annual flu vaccination likely will apply to pandemic vaccine distribution, but many preparatory decisions must be based on very rough estimates. What ethical (...)
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  • Pandemic Influenza: Public Health Preparedness for the Next Global Health Emergency.Lawrence O. Gostin - 2004 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 32 (4):565-573.
    The threat posed by avian influenza appears to be rising, yet global and national health programs are preparing only fitfully. A lethal form of avian flu has rooted itself deeply into the poultry flocks of poor Asian countries that will have a hard time eradicating it. Every so often a sick bird infects a human, who usually dies from the encounter, and on rare occasions the virus seems to have spread from one person to another before the chain of infection (...)
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