You know, I was listening to WLS radio from Chicago this afternoon, the host Roe Conn was asking Ron Magers who is a tv anchor in Chicago about this very thing. Why is this being talked about now?
Magers said the Pres has mentioned it a number of times lately, as have others, not sure now who he said.
He said they're now talking about the military controlling and quarantining large areas of population in the US, so I think we had all better be prepared to shelter in place for some time, it sounds like.
I read some headline over the weekend about 4 unexplained respiratory deaths in Toronto...not SARS, not usual influenza. I wondered about those as being Avian flu, but haven't seen any follow up on if they've pinned the cause of those deaths down.