[ex-Texan]

This report is all over early morning television news reports today. All of the Indonesian family members who contracted H5N1 in this chain died. That is a 100% death rate reported in this very small sample. These recent mutations in Asia now have at least a 65% death rate. The talking heads I saw this morning appeared to be distressed when they said the entire family of eight persons died. [More Reports Here] . . . There is little doubt now that H5N1 is being spread from person to person.

[khnyny]

[This report is all over early morning television news reports today. All of the Indonesian family members who contracted H5N1 in this chain died. That is a 100% death rate reported in this very small sample. These recent mutations in Asia now have at least a 65% death rate. The talking heads I saw this morning appeared to be distressed when they said the entire family of eight persons died. [More Reports Here] . . . There is little doubt now that H5N1 is being spread from person to person.]

Yep. No one wants to take this seriously. It is bad, but perhaps not as bad as you seem to think, although the mortality rate is very, very high. Time will tell. In any event, another pandemic will occur at some point in time, that's the way these things work.

[Swiss]

It is situation for concern but the fact that the father didn't pass on the virus to outsiders make me think that it is not easily transmitted yet. It is one thing to catch something when you are in close contact with a sick family member for a length of time. It is something else if you got the flu from a stranger sneezing for a second.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the links.