H5N1. Just caught a snippet of a BBC interview with a medical expert on the bird flu case in Turkey. But one thing he said in passing jumped out. Of 1800 birds on a farm in Turkey, 1700 had died of the bird flu, within a very short amount of time (I think he said a week). Sounds like pretty horrible odds. Update: Milbank pokes a bit of fun at the gloom and doom on Capitol Hill. "...Some people looked around: There were about 200 in the room, so about 50 would get the bug, and 25 would die. On the positive side, this level of mortality would have left enough chicken sandwiches for everybody at the event..."

Posted by Laura at October 13, 2005 09:59 AM