Saturday, November 27, 2004

Bird Flu pandemic. See you next March?

Bird flu will trigger an influenza pandemic among people that could kill up to 7 million, experts from the United Nations' World Health Organization predict.
The experts, meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, wouldn't attempt to predict a time frame, but said a pandemic was all but inevitable, according to an account from CNN. Pandemics occur when a new germ or strain emerges for which people have no immunity or vaccine. An inoculation to protect people against bird flu isn't expected until March of next year at the earliest, CNN reported.

http://www.healthcentral.com/news/NewsFullText.cfm?id=1505301