Avian Influenza

Global threat of bird flu is being ignored, experts warn

Published in Disease Risk Factor Week, July 3rd, 2005

A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza native to Southeast Asia is the most likely source of the world's next flu pandemic. Experts agree that the consequences could be devastating.

Repeated warnings continue to be ignored by the international community, so a recent issue of Nature devoted its News Feature and Commentary pages to avian flu, the risks we face and how badly prepared we are to deal with it.

A human flu pandemic could cause 20% of the world's population to become ill. Within months, close to 30 million people would need to be hospitalized, a quarter of whom would die. This is one of the more optimistic estimates, said...

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