The Coming Pandemic

Published June 8, 2005

The long-term solution is to invest many billions of dollars and a huge amount of political capital in persuading peasant families throughout China and South-East Asia to change the way they raise their poultry. The urgent short-term task is to develop a way of mass producing influenza vaccine far faster than is now possible. It's urgent because "the world is in the gravest possible danger of a global pandemic," as...