The avian flu page of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), concentrating on the threat the disease poses to animal health. It provides links to a small collection of important documents that outline the organisation's guidelines for tackling the spread of avian flu in livestock.

The World Health Organization for Animal Health (OIE) was set up to ensure transparency in the reporting of global animal disease. It is an intergovernmental organisation with 167 member countries that report the animal diseases detected on their territories. The website lists confirmed cases of avian flu and links to the official reports filed by each country.

This page is the starting point for all World Health Organization (WHO) information about avian flu. The WHO focuses on bird flu's relevance to human health; it is coordinating the global response to human cases of H5N1 avian flu and monitoring the corresponding threat of an influenza pandemic. This website has 'situation updates' in the centre of the page, below which are relevant WHO press releases, meetings and speeches. Links down the right hand side of the page provide access to technical guidelines, information for the general public, and region-specific webpages about avian flu.

In this short report, the World Bank summarises the main economic impacts of both the outbreaks of avian influenza in poultry and the potential human influenza pandemic. It identifies two main categories of economic impacts: the costs of sickness or death resulting from the disease outbreaks; and the costs associated with public and private efforts to prevent the emergence or spread of the disease and to treat its effects. A list of additional resources are provided at the top right of the page, notably a speech on the same topic, delivered in November 2005, by Milan Brahmbhatt, World Bank lead economist for the East Asia and Pacific.