Outbreak: science seeks safeguards for global health

Profiling a killer : Raising the dead

A global disaster

Luck strikes

A new killer

Death from the sky

More prepared

Species jumping

A future pandemic?

Preparing for the worst

Creating a plan

Checklist for influenza pandemic preparedness

Meet a microbiologist. The invisible world : "Totally fantastic creatures"

Startling discovery

Space invaders?

Microbiology toolbox

How viruses work. A modern plague : Attack on the immune system

A continent under siege

Vaccines

The black death

A new disease. Death from the rain forest : A deadly disease

Searching for answers

New drugs

A medical triumph

Sharing disease. A very real threat : Mousepox virus

Bioweapons

An age-old disease

Black ICE. Bugs fly free : Panic at the airport

The SARS scare

Quarantine!

Computers to the rescue.