"Three people have died of bird flu in Egypt in the past week. All three cases belong to one extended family in Gharbiyah province, 80 kilometres northwest of the capital city, Cairo. They included a 30 year-old woman, a 15-year-old girl and a 26 year-old man. "
Apart from the tendency for younger people to get it, it is worth noting that:
A) It almost exclusively affects people who handle birds, and/or keep them in their households,
and
B) It cannot, barring a very unlikely mutation, spread from human to human
This is just the latest "sky is falling", "we're all doomed", "life sucks" story from the DBM.