Turkey

I suppose it must be difficult to get everybody to give up their birds because a lot of the rural population wouldn't have been aware of bird flu and it's dangers before officials came in to ask them to dispose of their poultry.

I'm not really thinking that much about it anymore. I hope that people will soon be advised about health precautions to take. Not much else to do.

It's different from the illness that the possible pandemic would be because at the moment the method of passing on the illness is different.

Not stocking up on anything. I just hope that if the illness does mutate that by that time the vaccine will have been produced in sufficient quantity to reduce the severity of the illness. The other tablets are thought to be needed to be given at a higher dose than before as there is thought to be a certain amount of immunity build up. The New Scientist did say that there were question marks about the drug and that's because it's still thought that it can be viable at a higher dose than was thought to be needed before rather than being useless in all cases.

Guess I just won't be out getting close to the water birds.