A Question of "When" Seems to be on People's Minds

The bird Flu which is quickly spreading across the Old World (and thankfully hasn't infected all that many humans as of yet) has now made it to the U.K.

Some are saying that it is only a matter of weeks or maybe a month or two before this "avian menace" makes its way to our shores...

And so far it hasn't mass migrated to humans (that we are told) but with each flu season that passes the conditions are ripe for a "jump" from birds to humans (or other animals that could potentially pass it on to us).

I hope that our government can get all the research labs (such as the one in Madison Wis. that I blogged about earlier this week) up and running quickly and that they can come up with a vaccine for this new and very scary threat to civilization.

As this guy below writes....Are we ready to loose "Half the world's population" in a single pandemic??
One can only imagine what that would do to society as a whole. I don't even want to think about it.
(But I am sure others have).

Read on for the perspective of this writer:
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Bird flu expert Robert G. Webster is attempting to answer the question we're all asking: Will bird flu change from being a dangerous disease of birds (and the people who care for them) to being a disease that humans pass from one to another?

Webster, who works at the St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, is the scientist who discovered the link between human flu and bird flu (H5N1), which is now only present in birds.

At the moment, it can be transmitted to humans only through the droppings of infected birds, which is the reason that Asian children and women have been contracting the disease, since they live in countries where it is traditionally their job to take care of the familyÂ’s poultry.

On the ABC news website, Jim Avila and Meredith Ramsey interview Webster, who is concerned that, because viruses mutate (which is why there is a new flu vaccine every year), the bird flu virus will change to a new and dangerous human version.

Webster himself keeps a three month supply of food and water in his home, in case of a quarantine. He says, "Society just can't accept the idea that 50% of the population could die [but] I think we have to face that possibility."
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For the record, I have a 4 month supply of water and canned food and other consumables as well as candles and othernecessitiess stocked up...just in case. And I think it would be wise of everyone to do the same thing.
If this flu does indeed mutate like many experts are saying it very well could, there could be lots of sick people out there.
I got sick a few months ago with an upper lung infection that totally wiped me out and others at my workplace got ill very quickly as well. To think that something worse than what we all went through could be right around the corner is very scary.