Warnings of a Flu Pandemic
Avian Flu timeline
News@Nature.com In Focus - Bird Flu
1918 influenza pandemic web focus
With the arrival of avian flu on the shores of Europe, all eyes are on the H5N1 virus now endemic in domestic and wild birds in Asia. Though human-to-human transmission has yet to be properly established, the virus is deadly: since 2003, almost half of the 120 the people who have caught H5N1 from infected birds have died.
The world may finally be facing up to the threat: the WHO and other collaborators are ramping up surveillance efforts, stockpiling anti-flu drugs and fast-tracking the development of new vaccines. Research into other influenza virus strains and past pandemics, including a reconstruction of the genome of the 1918 'Spanish flu' that killed up to 50 million people, are providing important clues to what it might take for a new human pandemic to occur. Some governments say they are ready for the arrival of avian flu. But are they?
Nature's Avian Flu Web Focus contains new research and a timeline alongside a comprehensive archive of news, features, articles, communications and letters examining the threat of a new human flu pandemic in the near future, and what can be done to prevent it.
Produced in association with The Royal Institution World Science Assembly. As always, Nature carries sole responsibility for all editorial content.
자세한 내용은 아래의 link와 첨부파일을 보세요^^
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/avianflu/index.html
http://bric.postech.ac.kr/trend/issue/2005/avianflu_051020.html
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