More flu pandemic stuff

Great piece from the FT about a bird flu "nightmare scenario":

The scenario sends shivers down epidemiologists' spines: in Indonesia a taxi driver develops a fever and dies, the latest victim of the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu. His wife grows ill and also dies. So do his children. And within 10 days so do many of his passengers, victims of a newly mutated virus that has finally found an efficient way to leap among humans...Welcome to the global flu pandemic.

More here.

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