Bird Flu Monitor > The Threatened Pandemic Approaches?
[The Kew Continuum] But Leslie Garrett continues, "Or nothing at all could happen." She writes, "Scientists cannot predict with certainty what this H5N1 influenza willd do. Evolution does not function on a knowable timetable, and influenza is one of the sloppiest, most mutation-prone pathogens in nature's storehouse."
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[Futurepundit.com] FuturePundit: More Warnings On Avian Flu Danger To Humanity: At this point in time in the year 2005 I think we are at greater risk from a new natural killer influenza strain produced by Darwinian natural selection than we are from a man made strain produced in a laboratory. Yet in the West we have become so accustomed to controlling and defeating the will of nature that we fear more what other humans can do than what nature can throw up at us.
[Commongroundcommonsense.org] Common Ground Common Sense: The WHO system oversees laboratories all over the world, chases (and sometimes refutes) rumors of pandemics, pushes for government transparency regarding human and avian flu cases, and acts as an arbiter in negotiations over vaccine production, trade embargoes, and border disputes. Its companion UN agency, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), working closely with the World Organization for Animal Health, monitors flu outbreaks in animal populations and advises governments on culling flocks and herds, cross-border animal trade, animal husbandry and slaughter, and livestock quarantine and vaccination.
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