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Pandemic Planning Photos

Microbiologist Misty Long prepares a sample of flu virus for viewing through a microsope Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006, at the Communicable Disease Laboratory of a state Department of Health lab in Seattle. Washington state officials are working on how best to spend the approximately $7 million this year to prepare for a possible flu pandemic, and say the lessons they have learned will help them with any disaster.

(Photo: AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)