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GSK vaccine for flu pandemic wins approval

European regulators have approved recommendations from specialists to authorise the pharmaceutical group’s Prepandrix, assuring governments seeking to build up stockpiles

Novartis steps up case for new flu vaccine

Focus on protection against pandemic strains

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Clive Cookson

Q&A: How worried should we be?

The sudden appearance of virulent bird flu on a Suffolk turkey farm seems to have taken everyone by surprise.

Q&A: The threat from bird flu

FT science editor Clive Cookson answers your questions.

Search for a cure

Feeling the strain

The World Health Organisation estimates that a ‘bird flu’ pandemic could affect one in four people around the globe. Governments are stockpiling the antiviral drug Tamiflu, the best hope of a cure. But can be enough made in time - and will it work?

Pandemic fight faces limitations of science and manufacturing

Incubating a crisis

Why fight against bird flu centres on Indonesia

Asian bird flu

As Mt Merapi, Indonesia’s most active volcano, spews out smoke and lava, a disaster is incubating in the farms and villages of Central Java with potentially far greater consequences for human health.

Global threat

Bird flu’s link with the crazy trade in poultry

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We still do not know how the H5N1 virus struck the Bernard Matthews farm or where it might strike again, writes Caroline Lucas, a Green party Euro MP for south-east England.

Four-point plan to prepare global business for bird flu

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Europe warned on flu pandemic planning

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Indonesia withholds vital bird flu data

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