[robertpaulsen]

"The bird flu virus is only two mutations away ..."

Uh-huh. And I was only two numbers away from $56m in the state lotto.

I thought mutations took millions of years. Should I worry?

[Termite_Commander]

I thought mutations took millions of years.

No, they don't. From the time it took migratory birds to fly from Russia to Ukraine, they picked up a mutation. And by the way, with the lottery, you don't have trillions of tickets (individual virus) to play with. Also, when you get a number right with the lottery, it probably won't be right the next time. With H5N1, every "number" it guesses clicks into place, and it goes for the next mutation.

[staytrue]

Uh-huh. And I was only two numbers away from $56m in the state lotto.

Yeah but did you buy 1 million tickets which is about how many viruses are inside and infected human.