A new article in the NYTimes highlights the probability (NOT possibility) that the avian flu will mutate and infect humans.
Nature reports that:
The first human case of infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus has been reported by the Ministry of Health in Laos. The cumulative number of human H5N1 infections worldwide on 1 March 2007 was 277, with 167 deaths.
further, their study guide on the 1918 pandemic is sobering indeed.
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