State Makes Flu Pandemic Info Available

State officials have started steps to inform Hoosiers about the danger of a flu pandemic. Several agencies cooperated on a new web site, fluinfo.in.gov, which will serve as a clearing house for timely and accurate information. Nine state agencies have also come up with a skeleton plan to deal with a pandemic. They expect the first draft of a more complete plan to be ready in about 45 days. Officials estimate that if a mutated form of the bird flu were to infect 35 percent of Hoosiers, six thousand people would die.