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Nature 454, 162 (10 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/454162a; Published online 9 July 2008
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Ready for avian flu?
Tadataka Yamada1, Alice Dautry2 & Mark Walport3
- Tadataka Yamada is the executive director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Health Program, 1551 Eastlake Avenue East, Seattle, Washington 98102, USA.
- Alice Dautry is director general, Pasteur Institute, 25–28 rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris, France.
- Mark Walport is director of the Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK.
Abstract
Committing to a vaccine stockpile is just the beginning. Tadataka Yamada, Alice Dautry and Mark Walport offer a roadmap for heading off a global avian influenza catastrophe.
Several chilling considerations highlight the seriousness of an impending pandemic of the H5N1 'avian' influenza virus. The highly contagious nature of influenza, the limited ability to restrict its transmission and the efficiency of modern international transport all conspire to reduce the time from the first infection to a potential global crisis.
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