Other countries could learn from Vietnam's progress on communicating science and risk, says Son Kim Phan.

Many people suffer or die from foodborne disease each year — but how many? Arie Havelaar believes a WHO initiative will find out.

Tadataka Yamada, Alice Dautry and Mark Walport want to see better coordination and financing for a global H5N1 virus vaccine stockpile.

Laurie Garrett and David P. Fidler argue that a stockpile of H5N1 vaccine for Asia-Pacific countries will counter virus-sharing problems.

Avian influenza remains a grave danger to Africa, say Folorunso O. Fasina, Shahn P. Bisschop and Robert G. Webster.

Developing nations do not have the capacity to meet the core requirements of the WHO's new international health regulations, says an editorial in The Lancet.

Developing countries must have equal access to affordable influenza pandemic vaccines, says an editorial in The Lancet.

The world badly needs a comprehensive, public database of information on bird flu outbreaks in people and animals, says a Nature editorial.

An editorial in Nature argues that China's reluctance to join global efforts to control bird flu points to the need for a new strategy.

An editorial in The Lancet highlights five key questions facing a major international summit on bird flu hosted by UN agencies and the World Bank.

An editorial in The Lancet says we need an open and well-coordinated response to the threat of a global flu pandemic.

Kenneth Tsang and colleagues say governments should compare available flu drugs and question the patents that limit their production.

Governments need to think carefully about how to inform a sceptical public of the risks of bird flu, say risk communicators Peter Sandman and Jody Lanard.

The failure of governments to face the threat of a bird flu pandemic is scandalous, says an editorial in Nature.