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Originally posted by jpm1602
I watched with some disbelief on the evening news...
DAYTON — It's a commercial break and you're still laughing from that last bit on The Simpsons when a foreboding voice of doom stops you cold.
"1918: Attendance at football games and movie theaters was banned. Public places in Ohio were shut down. 1957: Ohio's first pandemic flu patients were children. More Americans died from pandemic flu in the 20th Century than died in World War One. It will happen again. Prepare now. To learn how, go to Ohiopandemicflu.gov."
Got your attention yet? The Ohio Department of Health hopes so.
"They're designed to be stark and grab attention," spokeswoman Sara Morman said of the ads that ran exclusively in the Dayton area July 6-20. "The fact is we will have another pandemic flu. The ads are edgy to drive people to our Web site."
The Web site, in English and Spanish, offers readers a preparedness guide, fact sheets and links to other resources concerning a possible pandemic, or global outbreak of a new influenza virus.