Officials admit limits of avian flu plan but say investments must be made.

Publication: Older Americans Report

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If a pandemic flu virus emerges, older people might be at no greater risk of getting infected than anyone else. Indeed, most human victims of the H5N1 virus have been under 25, the World Health Organization reports, so it is difficult if not impossible to speculate about the risks a successor virus might pose to older people. What is plausible, however, is that frail individuals will be less quick...

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