HN51 aware?

[Cyclefrance]

Originally Posted by Beestie

I have to confess that I haven't really kept up with this thread except to note that H5N1 is pretty much going to spread itself everywhere. How "incurable" is it and how "fatal" is it. I have trouble comparing it to the 1918 epidemic since, back then, some - maybe even a lot - regarded epidemics in certain areas to be "nature's housecleaning." I'm not sure the conditions which allowed that to happen exist anymore.

They don't exist at all, I would guess. We tended to stay put in our own countries back then - hard to see how containment will be achieved with very man and his uncle flying left, right and centre these days....