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The WHO director-general on the first pandemic in four decades and the battle to get drugs and vaccines to the developing world.

Scientists are monitoring people at risk of catching diseases from animals, in the hope of preventing a pandemic

Catherine Brahic reports on a scientific conundrum with profound implications for developing nations — how to make large supplies of a vaccine against a pandemic flu virus that does not exist yet.

As production of flu drug Tamiflu gears up, big questions remain over how affordable — and effective — it will be, reports Martin Enserink.

The hunt for a vaccine to fight a potential flu pandemic could be jeopardised by a lack of political and financial will to invest in it, reports Erika Check.