in case of a pandemic, the EU is prepared to short-circuit the normal approval procedure for vaccines, which could take up to eight months.

It’s true that scientists caution us and warn us that there will be a pandemic, … If there is one, then worldwide there will be a large number of deaths.

It simply is telling us that the virus may be changing the way it interacts with humans. It does not tell us that the risk of a mutation that causes the pandemic is increasing or...

Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5.

It would be my assessment that no nation is adequately prepared for a pandemic avian flu, … (However) I believe that most nations are improving and preparation is increasing.

A pandemic will cause disease outbreaks in many different communities all at the same time,

No one would be asked to perform tasks or duties they aren’t fully qualified of doing. We need to cast a large net to involve many people in the community because a pandemic flu outbreak...

It’s the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential...

The principal goal of Bush’s plan is the capacity for every American to have a vaccine in the case of a pandemic, no matter what the virus is.