They also found evidence she was directly infected by her brother and not by chickens, a rare case of human-to-human transmission of the virus.
I thought that when this thing goes "human to human" in terms of transmission it was time to grease the wheels on the death carts and start digging the mass graves on the outskirts of town.
Couple of points:
1) I just finished the best-seller on the 1918 pandemic. Scary.
2) On the other hand, I am also old enough to vaguely remember the Swine Flu Panic.
"I thought that when this thing goes "human to human" in terms of transmission it was time to grease the wheels on the death carts and start digging the mass graves on the outskirts of town."
Not quite- there's a pandemic chart and the level just below pandemic provides for rare human-to-human transmissions. So we're knocking on the door but it hasn't been opened yet.
It will be time to panic when we have the public health equivalent of the stewardess in the movie "Airplane" asking "does anyone here know how to fly a plane?"