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BusinessWeek September 19, 2005 Catherine Arnst	A Hot Zone In The Heartland Little could be done to contain a deadly avian flu outbreak. Right now, the U.S. has no national pandemic preparedness plan, either for treating large numbers of patients or for dealing with the resulting economic and social disruptions.
BusinessWeek February 9, 2004 Catherine Arnst	What You Need To Know About Avian Flu The current avian flu outbreak in Asia is the fifth since 1997 to infect humans. This has raised a red flag for infectious disease experts, who fear the strain could mutate and spark a devastating flu pandemic.
National Defense March 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Redirects Priorities In Chemical-Biological Defense The Pentagon will broaden the scope of its chemical and biological defense programs, in an effort to prepare for future domestic emergencies, officials say.
National Defense June 2007 Breanne Wagner	Agencies Scramble to Create Vaccine Market Defense and Homeland Security are pursuing disparate vaccination programs to combat different needs for military and civilian populations.
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2005 Anthony Tao	The Avian Few: Is it Too Late for Pharma to Re-enter the Vaccine Fray? Small profit margins and high litigation risks drove most companies out of the vaccine business decades ago. As a possible pandemic looms, pharma re-enters the fray. Is it too late?
BusinessWeek October 24, 2005 John Carey	New Vaccines For A Pandemic Using DNA, vast amounts of flu vaccine could be made quickly. But will the drugs work?
Managed Care February 2005 Jack McCain	Managed Care (and Everyone Else) Unprepared for the Next Killer Flu Could avian flu give rise to a pandemic that might rival the fearsome Spanish flu? Is the nation ready? Health plans may be called upon to administer vaccinations and identify high-risk patients, but what about he millions of Americans who lack health insurance?
National Defense November 2005 Margaret Davidson	Biodefense Experts: Vaccines `At a Crossroads' Many of the companies seeking government funds for biodefense work are small firms with no experience in bringing a drug to market. And they face a significant challenge.
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2006 Jill Wechsler	Washington Report: PDUFA Blues The Prescription Drug User Fee Act is up for reauthorization. Let the games begin.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2006 Brian Lawler	Happy (Sniffle) Holidays (Cough) It's flu season again, and the market for influenza vaccines is hot. Pharma investors, take note.
Searcher June 2006 Eva C. Perkins	Is the Price of Cheap Chicken Bird Flu? Information professionals are faced with a situation in which our skills are called upon to soothe the public with reassuring data about the avian flu.
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Avian Influenza 101 Here is everything you need to now about avian influenza so that you can better protect yourself.
Scientific American July 2009 Christine Soares	Could Animal Surveillance Have Seen Swine Flu Coming? The surveillance of animals for new flu viruses has lagged behind preparations for the human pandemics that can be caused by the bugs
National Defense March 2013 Stew Magnuson	Chemical-Biological Defense Office To Kick Off Dozens of New Programs The previous decade has seen little in terms of advancement of nuclear-radiological detection devices, and there will be a new push to update them.
American History December 2006	Letter : Coming Home to Roost Remembering 1918 and recognizing the catastrophe that could unfold in an age when a virus can cross the globe in a matter of hours has spurred unprecedented international cooperation and planning.
Wired January 2006 Thomas Goetz	The Battle to Stop Bird Flu The Bird Flu pandemic has hit New Mexico. Inside the Los Alamos weapons lab, massive computer simulations are unleashing disease and tracking its course, 6 billion people at a time.
American Journal of Nursing July 2007 Victoria J. Davey	Questions and Answers on Pandemic Influenza Striking a balance between risk and preparedness.
BusinessWeek November 28, 2005 Kerry Capell	High-Velocity Vaccines PowderMed says its DNA technology would let it react quickly to a flu pandemic. A DNA flu vaccine would have huge advantages over traditional ones. But first, the company must prove in upcoming large-scale clinical trials that its vaccine can protect people from flu generally.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2009 Brian Orelli	Swine Flu Just Isn't Bringing Home the Bacon Looks like that one-time boost from sales of swine flu vaccine may not add much to the bottom lines of vaccine makers like GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, sanofi-aventis, and Novartis.
National Defense July 2009	Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories 7 Deadly Myth article draws comment.
The Motley Fool October 14, 2005 Rich Duprey	Chiron Ready to Fly Flu vaccine maker readies first shipments as flu season begins and avian flu fears rise.
American Family Physician September 1, 2006 Gregory Juckett	Avian Influenza: Preparing for a Pandemic Preparing for a new influenza pandemic involves increasing global influenza surveillance and developing practical strategies for containing outbreaks at the source.
National Defense April 2010 Stew Magnuson	WMD Commission: 'We're Not Going Away' The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism is not being continued by the government, but the members are starting non-profit with the same mission.
Popular Mechanics September 11, 2009 Emily Anthes	Debunking 5 Prevalent Swine Flu Myths Some theories circulating online argue that this combination of strains is so unlikely that the new virus must have been created by humans in a lab and then either accidentally or deliberately released.
National Defense September 2004 Joe Pappalardo	Security Beat Vaccine Stockpiles Now Required by Law... Commission: Military Had No Warning During 9/11... Simulated Agent Mimics Bio-Terror Weapons... Cyber-security Hampered by Lack of Attention...
BusinessWeek February 4, 2010 Weintraub et al.	Swine Flu: The Pandemic That Wasn't Swine flu is waning, but the lessons of H1N1 could come in handy during a more serious epidemic.
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Swine Flu Update With the fall flu season rapidly approaching, a swine flu update is warranted.
Chemistry World February 2006	Editorial: Fighting Avian Flu Participants at a world avian flu conference in Beijing committed to increasing cooperation on global vaccine and anti-viral research and development.
National Defense September 2015 Taylor Feuss	Report: U.S. Vulnerable to Biological Attack "We're going to see the use of biological weapons eventually," said former intelligence officer Asha George, co-director of the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense.
Health October 2007 Sarah Clachar	Read this BEFORE you get a flu shot The flu vaccine may not be as good -- or as safe -- as you think.
American Family Physician January 15, 2004	Influenza Vaccine What is influenza?... Who is at higher risk?... What is the flu vaccine?... Is the vaccine safe?... etc.
Bio-IT World November 14, 2003 Jason B. Lee	Profiting from the BioShield How can software developers ensure a share of the tremendous biodefense funding available to bio-IT companies -- and what are the risks?
The Motley Fool April 27, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Capitalist Pig's View of Swine Flu So you want to make money from the swine flu? Here's how to do so.
The Motley Fool March 16, 2006 Rich Duprey	Avian Flu Ruffling Feathers Roche Pharmaceuticals boosts anti-flu drug production to quiet calls for generics. While the situation bears watching for now, it's not necessarily something for investors to get their feathers ruffled about.
BusinessWeek October 22, 2007 Catherine Arnst	Roll Up Your Sleeve, Gramps A graying population may create a huge market for vaccines that buttress aging immune systems.
HBS Working Knowledge March 1, 2004 Martha Lagace	Injecting New Life into the Vaccine Industry Vaccines for preventable diseases save millions of lives every year, yet as an industry, the vaccine business suffers a host of ailments, the CEO of Merck & Co. contends.
American Family Physician October 1, 2004	Flu Vaccinations A general overview on what flu vaccines are and how they can help.
Scientific American November 2005	Preparing for the Worst Flu season comes every year as reliably as hurricane season. If America shores up our defenses against both, we will be in a much stronger position when the "big ones" hit.
The Motley Fool October 29, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Flu Shots for the Elite The flu shot shortage offers some food for thought for investors. Here are some statistics showing the establishment has some problems with the priorities when it comes to the flu.
Popular Mechanics March 2006 Jeff Wise	Fighting Fire With Fire By recreating an extinct virus that killed as many as 50 million people, scientists race to defeat avian flu before it evolves into a deadlier form.
Managed Care December 2005 Jack McCain	Flu's Other Cost If the next pandemic is anything like the 1918 outbreak, hospitals could be overburdened, while some small regional health plans might see their membership decimated, or worse.
Smithsonian January 2006 Michael Rosenwald	The Flu Hunter For years, virologist Robert Webster has been warning of a global influenza outbreak. Now governments worldwide are finally listening to him.
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Swine Flu: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Here is a short list of what we do and don't know of swine flu.
Bio-IT World June 15, 2003 Malorye Branca	A View to a Kill Genomics, bioinformatics, and novel laboratory techniques are converging to boost vaccine research against a new wave of emerging diseases, natural and man-made. Now, will in silico modeling ramp up sufficiently to further speed vaccine discovery?
The Motley Fool September 2, 2005 Rich Duprey	Will Flu Vaccine Catch Cold? The CDC says we may have as many as 97 million doses this year, but that's a best-case scenario. This year again, it's Chiron causing the uncertainty.
BusinessWeek October 11, 2004	Bird Flu In Thailand: New Fears The death of a 26-year-old Bangkok woman is raising fears that the deadly avian flu may be "learning" how to spread among people -- a step towards a potentially devastating epidemic.
BusinessWeek November 28, 2005 John Carey	Prevent A Pandemic, Make A Profit Where there's disaster, there's opportunity for business.
Chemistry World February 7, 2006 Jon Evans	Plant-Derived Drug Approved in US Dow AgroSciences has become the first biotech firm to gain US regulatory approval for a plant-derived drug. The company claims it will be able to manufacture many other vaccines, for animal and human diseases, using its plant-based production technology.
BusinessWeek September 19, 2005 Bruce Nussbaum	The Next Big One Where America is most vulnerable to the next big disaster and how the nation can better manage the risks ahead.
The Motley Fool October 28, 2005 Rich Duprey	Chiron's Bird Flu Contract As Asian bird flu becomes the crisis du jour, this flu vaccine biotech is awarded a hefty contract.