H5N1 is causing a massive epidemic of lethal avian influenza.

The more I find out about an influenza pandemic and the lack of readiness, the more I am concerned. But I am more hopeful about the scope for international cooperation.

We must still maintain utmost vigilance for and preparations for the next human influenza pandemic.

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

We still have too many students 12 to 17 who are drinking excessively but we don't have an epidemic. We have a declining problem. That's the fact of it.

A lot of that money is now being spent in countries, in Indonesia, in Vietnam, in Cambodia, in countries in central and eastern Europe such as Turkey, Nigeria, and also Central Asia.