Reply #33: Ever consider how airline travel can get somebody to the other [View All]

[kestrel91316]

side of the world in several hours??? THAT is why Asia's bird flu problem is OUR bird flu problem, and everybody else's. THAT is why the WHO is involved.

The flu in 1918 was indeed an avian flu, but it wasn't the H5N1 flu. I forget which other one it was, but it has been in circulation around the world for nearly 100 years and we all have been exposed to, and are protected against the evolved version of the 1918 flu. It cannot do the same thing again to us, but another bird flu can.

Most flu comes from birds before getting into humans, IIRC.