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'When a mutation occurs we would not have to create a new process for making the vaccine,' says Zimonyi. 'We would simply replace H5N1 with the mutated strain and, in eight weeks, we could be producing the new vaccine in industrial quantities.'

From 6 months down to two months for a working vaccine is a significant improvement. This is all assuming that:

1. Zimonyl gets the mutated strain IMMEDIATELY from China or wherever the mutation originates. Somehow, given the problems in Indonesia and China have being forthright and honest about whatever bird flu problems they're having, I just wonder...will the mutated strain escape from China to Toronto (a la SARS) before the Chinese admit there's a problem and get the samples to Zimonyl for vaccine manufacture?

2. Will the h2h Avian Flu emerge in a city, where it can be quickly identified? Or will it be in some rural area where local doctors will diagnose meningitis, or strep suis, or dengue fever, or some other illness until the virus has a foothold and starts to move?

3. Will Hungarian officials, holding the means of producting an effective vaccine that will prevent millions of deaths, surrender it, on orders of WHO, to the world? Or will there be "political" problems with that?

These articles are so fanciful--real life, real politics, real human decision-makers will, in my opinion, bollix up the works, even if this researcher in this small country is idealistic, generous, and benevolent...