Avian 'Bird' Flu - undue media panic or genuine concern for pandemic potential requiring global preparedness action?

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.
• ² PandemiX Center, Department of Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Denmark.
• ³ International Society for Infectious Diseases, Boston, USA.
• ⁴ Research and Innovation Center, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health & College of Medicine, Al Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• ⁵ Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory, University, Atlanta, USA.
• ⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea.
• ⁷ Department of Medicine and Therapeutics and, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
• ⁸ S.H. Ho Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
• ⁹ University of Bologna, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Bologna, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Department of Disease Control, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka 10101, Zambia.
• ¹¹ Macha Research Trust, Choma, Zambia.
• ¹² Cornell Wildlife Health Lab, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, USA.
• ¹³ National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ¹⁴ Right to Care; University of Pretoria, Faculty of Veterinary Science, South Africa.
• ¹⁵ Department of Infection, Division of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, UK.
• ¹⁶ NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.