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WHO official - bird flu pandemic "almost certain"

Reuters
Thursday May 31, 2007 

A bird flu pandemic is almost certain to occur in the long term, but the likelihood of a large-scale outbreak in humans in the next few years is less clear, a World Health Organization official said on Thursday.

"The chances of a (bird flu) pandemic over the long term is almost certain .... but over the next few years it seems uncertain," Keiji Fukuda, head of the WHO's global influenza programme, told a conference on bird flu in Paris.

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