Re: Luck and deadly viruses.
My girlfriend's father has a business working with scientists/researchers helping them found their own businesses so that they get decent income from their discoveries and patents, instead of universities or drug companies giving them the shaft. Anyways, he's in social circles with some relatively big guys in the academic/professional scientific community, and was recently at a party with a guy who was recently head of the CDC's AIDS research dept. He now is working with some big university on the bird flu thing.
Apparently its already widespread among the wild bird population in the US. They're trying to keep this under wraps, since the majority of the US population won't come into close contact with these birds anyways, but they're already starting to have to worry about duck hunters and the like. From what I heard (this is something like 3rd- or 4th-hand), they think the flu's advance into domestic poultry is pretty much inevitable.
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