I haven't seen a single story about how the vaccine companies are addressing this situation and what their capabilities will be.
If a pandemic is probable or even possible, what exactly are we doing about it? I don't think it's an unreasonable question.
Well, DG, the problem is we don't know enough about the virus to make a vaccine yet. In fact, the test for the current group of avian flu cases depends on identification from the virus circulating in fall, of 2004.
It's thought that the virus has changed enough that there are false negatives, leading to a whole host of difficulties. In fact, it's fairly certain that there are an unknown number of false negatives, and that we cannot currently identify avian flu from the tests we presently have.
I'll post a commentary from Recombinomics here in a second.