Pandemic Influenza. An influenza pandemic is a global outbreak of a new influenza A virus. Pandemics happen when new (novel) influenza A viruses emerge which are able to infect people easily and spread from person to person in an efficient and sustained way. The United States is NOT currently experiencing an influenza pandemic.
American WWII-era poster promoting victory gardens. Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II.
By the end of World War I, the campaign promoting home gardensâwhich by then were referred to as âvictory gardensââhad dropped off, but many people continued to maintain them. Shortly after the United States was drawn into the Second World War, victory gardens began to reemerge.