Annex to the letter dated 31 October 2005 from the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary General

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

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.

International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza Statement of core principles

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Let me show you a simulation of what a pandemic looks like so we know what we're talking about.

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

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.

She is sensitive to current fashions.

She's highly influenced by current trends.

She follows the latest craze.

They bring on so much influenza

Here we come. And that was the influenza.

Bird flu.

6. Calls for the improvement of the global public health preparedness and response systems, including systems of prevention and monitoring of infectious diseases, to better cope with major diseases, in particular a human influenza pandemic arising from avian influenza

Calls for the improvement of the global public health preparedness and response systems, including systems of prevention and monitoring of infectious diseases, to better cope with major diseases, in particular a human influenza pandemic arising from avian influenza

So a nice example of this came from last year and swine flu.

Flu epidemic.

If you just take influenza, you will see peaks at the time where you knew big flu epidemics were killing people around the globe.

Swine Flu for Grownups

I've got a touch of the flu.

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

Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu

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

The situation is compounded by the increase of worldwide epidemics such as the avian flu.

I have the honour to transmit herewith the core principles adopted by the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza at a meeting held on 6 and 7 October 2005, noting the global cooperation needed to address health emergencies (see annex).

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

d Until 1997 referred to as pneumonia and influenza.

And the Avian Flu is also not a good idea.

What do you think the likelihood is that there'll be a pandemic?

Stigmatization is so prevalent it has been referred to as the inevitable third epidemic , occurring after the silent epidemic of HIV infection and the AIDS epidemic.

Malaria is endemic in three quarters of the country's land mass, and about two thirds of the population is at risk of infection.

Shame is an epidemic in our culture.

So bigger dots mean more of your friends have the flu.

The red dots are going to be cases of the flu, and the yellow dots are going to be friends of the people with the flu.

Special event on Avian flu

Malaria and dengue are diseases that are difficult to control, and the dimensions of the HIV AIDS epidemic are expanding daily.

Let me say that the European Community welcomes and strongly supports the initiative of President Bush concerning the looming danger of avian flu's becoming a pandemic.

Images of the earth being wiped out by flood or bird flu 64 percent.

Don't let your feelings show.

It's really a hands on experience.

Who Pays for Bird Flu?

I was vaccinated against the flu.

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.

The Pandemic That Wasn t