It's been working to help control pandemic flu, SARS for example.

Pandemic bird flu early detection, early response. It is a litany.

We've seen it in the financial crisis. We've seen it in the pandemic flu.

In June, the World Health Organization declared the first global flu pandemic in 41 years.

Our investment in trying to prevent pandemic flu is affecting the distribution of possible outcomes.

The key to preventing or mitigating pandemic bird flu is early detection and rapid response.

So instead of a hidden pandemic of bird flu, we find it and immediately contain it.

The spectre of avian flu threatens parts of Asia and Europe and the disease could become a global pandemic.

Do you want to view the pandemic threat the way back in the 1950s people viewed the civil defense issue, and build your own little bomb shelter for pandemic flu?

But he placed the likelihood of one such event above all others at close to 100 percent, and that is a severe flu pandemic.

And the difference between a normal flu season and a pandemic is about a factor of 1,000 in deaths and certainly enormous economic impact.

And that simulation that I showed you that you thought was bird flu that was SARS. And SARS is the pandemic that did not occur.

It mimics what we now understand about reconstructing the 1918 flu virus, the last great pandemic, in that it also jumped directly from birds to people.

So here s a primer on the swine flu pandemic risk communication, framed in terms of what health officials shouldn t do when they re telling you about this new disease.

LG For a long time, researchers in emerging diseases were kind of dismissive of the pandemic flu threat on the grounds that back in 1918 they didn't have antibiotics.

Belarus is prepared to join in the partnership initiated by the United States aimed at pooling international efforts for a rapid response in the event of an avian flu pandemic.

Think of cancer, of bird flu, swine flu, SARS.

Just look at pandemics swine flu, bird flu, H1N1.

In addition, the Bahamas has seen useful ideas advanced by the United States of America, the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization, to prevent a bird flu pandemic.

The Government has developed a Pandemic Influenza (Pan Flu) Response Plan and an Airport Contingency Plan for Smallpox and has also contracted the development of an overall Territorial Smallpox Emergency Response Plan, which will complement the Pan Flu Plan and be the template for other extreme disease related health emergencies.

Bird flu.

Flu epidemic.

NEW YORK The World Health Organization has now officially declared the H1N1 flu virus to be a global pandemic. Governments, international organizations, and people around the world are rightly focused on fighting it.

5. Don t fight the adjustment reaction. While panic is rare, it is natural for people to need some time to adjust to a new risk and this swine flu pandemic is new to us all.

As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar.

Swine Flu for Grownups

I caught the flu.

We tried it against flu A viruses H1N1, H3N2 as well as flu B viruses.

That's the sound of genetic mutations of the avian flu becoming a deadly human flu.

The Austerity Pandemic

So this, swine flu pink.

Who Pays for Bird Flu?

Special event on Avian flu

And that most people who die of regular flu which in regular flu years is about 360,000 people worldwide, most of them senior citizens and they die not of the flu but because the flu gives an assault to their immune system.

The Pandemic That Wasn t

I was vaccinated against the flu.

My name's Pitt. Melrose has flu.

Let's pretend there's a pandemic.

We are facing many crises food, energy, recession, and pandemic flu occurring all at once. If ever there were a time to act in a spirit of renewed multilateralism, a time to put the united back into the United Nations, it is now.

Luckily, this year's flu was relatively mild.

Well, you could develop flu like symptoms.

And now comes the Spanish flu also.

I've got a touch of the flu.

I bet I'm getting the Asiatic flu.

Just a strong case of the flu.