"I don't even know what were supposed to be scared of?"
Mmmmm. Perhaps that silly old axis of evil again. Our president has just named a military General to head up the CIA (now why would he have done that out of the blue?), and North Korea reportedly has hardened biofacilities trying to tinker with the current avian flu. Now who do you think they could market that to(since they have to market something before they starve to death?) Not to mention one of the local networks has just shown a bird flu TV movie and referred everyone to pandemicflu.gov just in case you didn't get your fill of fear from the regular news.
Laura Mansfield is most likely correct in her analysis.
To don the tinfoil hat myself before passing it on, could this have been the point of His Ronery's publicized visit to the "pig farm"? Is that where they're trying to breed a nastier avian flu?