The title link provides some more gloom and doom about the inevitabiity of a Bird Flu Pandemic... But consider:
We, you and I, are ALL decended from survivors of the last Bird Flu Pandemic in 1918...could we not have a certain genetic propensity to survive this outbread as well?
It is thought that the reason that Africans are more prone to AIDS than Europeans is that the BLACK DEATH of the 1300's was in many technical ways "similar" to the current AIDS virus...and thus, some kind of deep historical "herd immunity" survives even to this day in persons of European decent...
So too...the world could be less likely to experience a catastrophic lose of life if some of us still have the "survivor gene" from the 1918 pandemic...
Perhaps something like this will save us? Or perhaps not.
Just a little ray of hope in what is increasingly nothing by GLOOM AND DOOM about the Bird Flu... And remember stranger things have happen...
