The world awaits the next pandemic: will it be H5N1, the ‘bird flu’?

'Bird flu' has been in the headlines of most American and United Kingdom Newspapers over the past year with dire predictions of a global pandemic resulting in millions of deaths with catastrophic economic and political consequences. The majority of people who have been infected so far have been children with a mortality rate of greater than 50 per cent. So what do pediatric nurses on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean need to know about this condition to educate and protect their families, the children they care for, and their communities? [Copyright 2006 Sage Publications, Inc.]