Pandemics don't just happen; humans play a strong role in their development. When a billion or so people all want to buy live poultry (ducks, geese and chickens) to celebrate Lunar New Year each February, they also create the conditions needed to "grow" a new form of flu and with a 60% probability, pandemic "killing" flu. New thinking is needed but governments are staying with rerunning the past and not getting out of the box to new solutions.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) believes the world is
now closer to another influenza pandemic at any time since the last
outbreak in 1968. The possibility is a pandemic (H5N1) threat having a
reported case fatality rate above 60%.
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