Elisabeth MahaseThe BMJConcerns over avian influenza viruses this year show that “we can’t drop our guard” and must prepare for the next “inevitable” pandemic, Nicola Lewis, director of the Worldwide Influenza Centre at the Francis Crick Institute, has warned.In an interview with The BMJ,1 Lewis said that “the threat of influenza hasn’t gone away, and it didn’t go away even when we had the covid-19 pandemic.”