Bird flu pandemic still on the horizon

The bird flu is still a future disaster waiting to happen. The threat of a world pandemic has not gone away

Risk of bird flu pandemic probably growing | U.S. | Reuters

GENEVA (Reuters) - The risk of a human influenza pandemic remains real and is probably growing as the bird flu virus becomes entrenched in poultry in more countries, health officials warned on Tuesday.

Some 150 experts are attending a meeting hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) to update its guidance to countries on how to boost their defences against a deadly global epidemic.