[TomGuy]

I continue to be skeptical.

Something is going on, however, because allot of money worldwide is being allocated to this phantom pandemic.

This is from the House Military Budget bill passed on March 23, 2007:

Avian Flu: Provides $969 million for the Department of HHS to continue to prepare and respond to an avian flu pandemic. Of this funding, $870 million is to be used for the development of vaccines.

Especially after I found these:

Bird flu has killed at least 167 people worldwide since it broke out in Asian poultry stocks in 2003. [Note that the article of this thread omits that latter part - 167 deaths since 2003.]

Source: Number of bird flu cases reach 50, but no infections in humans or commercial poultry farms
AP, March 5, 2007


Yet, this from Nov, 2006:

$1.3 billion more needed for bird flu - Bird Flu - MSNBC.com

Keywords: $1.3 billion more

A heck of allot of money is being spent on something --- and I don't 167 deaths worldwide in 4 years is the reason.

[blam]

"A heck of allot of money is being spent on something --- and I don't 167 deaths worldwide in 4 years is the reason."

Yup. They still seem to be proceeding full speed ahead but without the original hysteria. Most people have lost interest...it seems.

[gorush]

This bird flu has not yet mutated to a form that passes from human to human. If it does your skepticism will disappear. These viruses mutate quickly, making it difficult to provide a serum in time. I found the book "The Great Influenza of 1918" very enlightening on this subject and on Woodrow Wilson and WWI.