(1) The effectiveness of antivirals in the treatment of pandemic influenza is unclear.

(2) In the case of the avian flu pandemic threat, millions of lives are potentially at stake.

(3) The idea that this flu could reach pandemic proportions is a chilling thought.

(4) This argues for the need to look at other ways to respond to a new flu strain which has pandemic potential.

(5) So why have British health authorities decided to launch a pandemic flu panic in Britain?

(6) Imagine if you will you were a government which was aware of a global pandemic flu in the offing.

(7) Companies should prepare for a pandemic flu the way they would for a blizzard.

(8) Even if nations vaccinate their entire populations, they will not remain immune to the pandemic shock.

(9) But pandemic influenza, appearing every few decades, has much more devastating consequences.

(10) Is the Canadian plan to deal with the bird flu pandemic similar to that outlined by the president today?

(11) History has shown that pandemic strains of influenza viruses emerge as reassortants of human and avian viruses.

(12) The factors involved in the genesis of each pandemic virus are probably different.

(13) It depends on what percentage of the population gets a pandemic flu strain.

(14) Don't expect to be able to buy most of these things when the pandemic starts.

(15) It is a remarkable achievement which increases Britain's ability to cope with pandemic flu, should it happen.

(16) Sars has revealed much about the way a pandemic illness can affect modern society - with massive consequences.

(17) There is, however, going to be another influenza pandemic some time soon.

(18) Last year, following a simulated exercise, the Ministry of Health developed a national pandemic plan.

(19) Let's hope that this virus does not mutate and create a worldwide pandemic this winter.

(20) Most topical is the risk of pandemic influenza, which seems to be the highest in three decades.