World Health Organization (WHO) officials are introducing new regulations to help in the fight against pandemics.

The new regulations, along with the experience in controlling severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), should ease the way for cooperation should there be an influenza pandemic, says Dr. David Heymann, executive director for communicable diseases at WHO

Airlines may become a crucial factor in fighting the spread of bird flu, leading federal health officials to streamline procedures for the possible quarantine of sick passengers.

Federal health officials have authority to detain or isolate any airline passenger suspected of harboring the avian flu virus, which scientists fear could mutate, making it easier for the virus to leap from person to person and quickly spread globally

A bird flu pandemic could cost the global economy up to $800 billion USD warns the World Bank.

It is "only a matter of time" until the deadly H5N1 virus becomes capable of human to human transmission and causes global chaos, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says

The frightening prospects of an epic pandemic of bird flu (Avian flu) leads to a rush on protective masks across the U.S.

Custom Browser Inc., a distributor of N95 face masks reports a dramatic spike in sales in recent weeks in light of the Avian Flu news. The firm, which usually sells a few cases a month of the popular 3M 9211, 3M 9210, 3M 8233 N100, 3M 1860, 3M 1870 and 3M 8210 masks, now reports its nearly impossible to keep up with demand

Legionnaires Disease is being named as the likely cause for at-least seventeen deaths at a Toronto, Canada nursing home which has also sickened 70 residents and 18 workers.

The illness is a rare form of pneumonia that can only be contracted by inhaling water droplets contaminated by legionella bacteria and can't be spread from person to person