04 April 2006

U.N. Notes Quick Spread of Bird Flu

Bird flu resurfaced in Asia in 2003 and has killed at least 108 people. It remains hard for humans to catch, but health experts fear it will mutate into a form easily spread among people, potentially sparking a pandemic.
Oh. My. Gosh. At least 108 people world-wide since 2003?

No fear-mongering or panic-pandering here.

I must assume that the world-wide pandemic of the common cold will soon be recognized for the race-exterminating killer it is any day now. How many people died from that last year? Or from drowning in buckets? Or from lightning strikes? Caramba.

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