Avian influenza and Europe

There was a Nature news item recently reporting bird flu in Kazakhstan and Russia, but the item was only available to subscribers (the University subscribes to Nature but not to their premium news service, where this appeared).

But last week's BMJ has an editorial on avian influenza and Europe, by the director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, which argues that a pandemic is likely, but that Europe is getting prepared.

Read more in the BMJ at http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/331/7514/413?etoc