I've read several of these 'Bird Flu' articles, and it seems like the elites are rooting for this disease to depopulate the planet for them.
According to even the most pessimistic forcasts, the most a human-transmissible H5N1 virus could kill is about 360 million people. Definitely huge but that would barely make a dent in human population growth.
Some of those in the health industry are promoting this; the UN seems to be one of the primary activist organizations. Those who would receive increased funding are lobbying the hardest for increased funding, no surprise. These are not the elites, although they would probably like to be.