bird flu from asia?

[Rog]

its an H1N1 strain so it might not be as bad as the media are scaring us with. H1N1 strains have been around for a long time and caused the 1918 pandemic which killed millions. a fair number of the population may have some immunity like me - i've had real influenza twice. Hopefully it won't be as bad as it could be....but the american virologists don't know whether there's any genetic mutations to make it more virulent yet.......