New system may help plan for flu outbreak
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070201/ap_on_he_me/flu_pandemic"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070131/capt.gajb10101312253.flu_pandemic_gajb101.jpg?x=130&y=106&sig=exXeebP8BbUeRpD0dDa7dw--" align="left" height="106" width="130" alt="Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Julie Gerberding, right, and Mitchell Cohen confer during a large-scale exercise to see how well the CDC would react to a pandemic flu outbreak, in Atlanta Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)" border="0" /></a>AP - The government will grade the severity of the next flu pandemic just like forecasters grade hurricane strength — with a ranking system unveiled Thursday to help states determine when they should take increasingly strong steps to combat flu's spread.</p><br clear="all"/>