
%0 Journal Article
%A Durrheim, David 
%A Ferson, Mark 
%T Guest Editorial: Preparing for the inevitable—an influenza pandemic
%J New South Wales Public Health Bulletin
%D 2006/08/01
%V 17
%N 8
%P 97-98
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/NB06023
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/NB06023 
%X The world is currently at &#39;Global Phase 3&#39; of the World Health Organization&#39;s influenza pandemic alert phases, where human disease due to a novel strain of influenza is occurring, but there is no good evidence of human-to-human transmission. Given the instability of the influenza virus, the world is waiting for the first influenza pandemic of the twenty-first century. It is thus timely to consider the threat of the next influenza pandemic, the means for combating it and our readiness to deploy these measures. 
