not bird flu but oil, lack of motivation to act and complacency
The end is nigh Apocalypse and if the first page is too long read the second
I beleive that to some extent the news of bird flu is encouraged by government because they have learnt through Sars that it is probably a controllable situation which can therefore be used to divert from problems which governments are not going to be able to control or are not willing to confront because they are too complex.