What evidence do you have to refute the man?
None what so ever, only a burp of so much hot stinky air.
If you consider the perilous state of the health in the former Soviet states, the density of population in Asian and South American, even Mexican cities, massive deaths from an out of control flu virus is well within the relm of possibility, even probability.
America and Canada and the Western Euro states all have relatively healthy population, well fed, fat and happy. We do not suffer from internal parasites or persistant infection. We are not already weakened by general life.
In America we apparently have adequate vaccine to protect those at risk and more importantly, have the ability to deliver to those most at risk.
Most of the world doesn't have the vaccine and more importantly, even if it did does not posess the resources or bureaucratic ability to do so.
>>America and Canada and the Western Euro states all have relatively healthy population, well fed, fat and happy. We do not suffer from internal parasites or persistant infection. We are not already weakened by general life. <<
H5N1 has a case fatality rate of 70-80% of healthy young adults with intact immune system. H5N1 could blow through the US just like H3N2 does. America, Canada, and Western Europe get their fair share of the flu, and H5N1 would be the same
http://www.recombinomics.com/H5N1_case_mortality_rate.html