Influenza pandemics can cause significant morbidity, mortality, and social disruption worldwide. The history of pandemics shows that a pandemic has occurred every 10 to 40 years over the last 400... Read More

For this theme issue on pandemic influenza, we assembled a panel of experts and asked them to contribute practical and informative articles on a number of topics. In the first article, Drs Daly,... Read More

When an influenza pandemic is declared in future, it is unlikely that a vaccine for the pandemic strain, the only definitive intervention, will be immediately available. Public and political pressure... Read More

Preparing for pandemic influenza poses a major challenge to diagnostic virology laboratories, who must select optimal specimens for diagnosis, determine a time frame for specimen collection and... Read More

While no one can predict if influenza A/H5N1 will precipitate the next influenza pandemic, the appearance of human cases of influenza A/H5N1 in 1997 and subsequent widespread avian influenza... Read More