Even Odds

Just in case you want to place a bet or two:



http://www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/AvianFlu/story?id=1724801&page=1


http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=27868

Notes on author Webster:
http://www.stjude.org/faculty/0,2512,407_2030_3957,00.html

Notes from the Oprah show:

Bird flu may not mutate into a disease as serious as the
1918 pandemic, but Dr. Osterholm says the law of probability
proves a pandemic will eventually strike again.  "People
have to understand that this is not science fiction," he
says.


"[Pandemics] are going to happen. This is why [a] group of
infectious disease [experts] are trying to wake the world
up, shake them and say,  'You've got to understand this.
Even if the bird flu isn't the one that does it, another
one's going to.'"


Like the people of New Orleans learned, this is not the time
to panic and feel hopelessness. It's the time to be
prepared."