[CutePuppy]

H5N1 (and very likely H1N1, a "swine flu" virus) are not easily transmitted to healthy humans, and thus are far less dangerous than seasonal human influenza viruses and their variable, mutated strains, which kills or temporarily disables several magnitutes the number of people, every year.

So much for pandemic panic. And to all of you, puppies - let's be careful out there, and keep your noses cold and wet.

[muawiyah]

Viruses don't care if you are "healthy" ~ they do not have a "health" detector anyway.

Sick people and healthy people can catch flu ~ swine flu, or old-fashioned flu cooked up over at the neighbors.

I think you are confounding "catch" with "kill". Healthy people may well not have secondary conditions that are assisted in killing us if we catch flu.

[Riodacat]

A mutation would be needed before bird flu became a human problem, they said.

And, like that would never happen, eh?

[BlueStateBlues]

Colder than a witch’s. . .nose.

[freebilly]

A mutation would be needed before bird flu became a human problem, they said

Gee, that could never happen........