Governor Jim Doyle announced that Wisconsin ranked among the top states in the nation for pandemic flu preparedness in a 2008 assessment led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and submitted to the U.S. Homeland Security. The Department of Health Services’ Division of Public Health coordinated the Pandemic Influenza Operations Plan that was submitted to federal officials.
To learn more about the assessment, go to the news release at the Pandemic Flu web site.