Mike Leavitt interview on bird flu response

WASHINGTON — Mike Leavitt is within the small membership of presidency officers who’ve led an avian flu response.

The expertise continues to be recent in his thoughts practically twenty years later. When he first heard concerning the avian flu outbreak in 2005, he had been secretary of well being and human providers in George W. Bush’s administration for simply a few months.

The looming menace alarmed him a lot that he purchased and distributed 200 copies of a e-book on the 1918 influenza pandemic, together with one he personally delivered to the president.