Employers get education on pandemic plans

URBANA – More than a half-million Americans died in the great flu pandemic of 1918.

Ninety years later, businesses have an important job to do to keep that from happening again, an official of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told local business leaders in Urbana on Thursday.

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