Krista said, Personally I don't think the bird flu will pose much risk to anyone in the US I hate that many ferrets died in trying to come up with a vaccine for this, however, this one DOES scare me. I watched an Opra show a few weeks back that had one of the leading scientists on this exact thing... the bird flu. According to his research, it is highly likely that the bird flu WILL be the NEXT world wide pandemic, and the target deaths will be "healthy persons ranging in age from 20-40 years old". He made the cooralation to "The Great Flu of 1918", which also started in the 3rd world countries and QUICKLY became the world's pandemic. This was ALSO a strain similar to today's bird flu. The reason being, is this strain of the flu attacks the healthy and not one's the have "compromised immune systems", such as the elderly or kids. Evidently, if you are one that is /fortunate/ enough to be already sickly, your body already produces too many of the disease fighting cells needed to ward off getting the bird flu. Basically, the body's OWN self is what destroys and kills, NOT the bird flu itself. SCARY! Also, in this interview, and I wish I could remember his name, but he suggests having enough food and bottled water in your house for your family and pets to remain homebound for up to 3 weeks! Also SCARY! No, I am not in a panic mode about this, but I AM going to take the warnings seriously. I think we all should. ~Kim [Posted in FML issue 5277]