Thanks for posting.
My guess is that we will miss the main event this flu season. But it is so widespread in birds, and in pigs as well (though not as widespread), that it seems certain we will see something major in the 2006/07 flu season.
If so, I certainly hope someone comes up with something REALLY innovative in the next 12 months...
U.K. Says Flu Failed to Spread From Infected Birds (Update2)
Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- The strain of avian influenza capable of infecting people didn't spread between species in a quarantine center in the U.K. after killing as many as 53 birds from Taiwan, government scientists said...
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Smugglers?
Taiwan responded to the U.K. report by saying there is a ``good possibility that profit-driven traders smuggled mesias from China to Taiwan, using our avian flu-free country as a front from which they laundered these birds to the UK and other countries,'' the British Broadcasting Corp. reported. Taiwan has asked if it can send a team to the U.K. to discuss the findings with British officials, BBC said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=a_oHg4orzc_0&refer=uk