Bird Flu May Kill Millions of People A bird flu that is wide spread among Asian bird, and very lethal to humans, may acquire the ability to spread human to human. If this happens we may get a pandemic (world wide epidemic) that could kill between 2 million and 100 million people worldwide. Some cases of contagion from human to human have already been recorded. A flu in 1918 that may have been similar killed between 20 million and 50 million people. Major flu pandemics occur roughly every 20 years, and the last one was in 1968, so it could...