And Now For the Nightly Flu Report...

This would almost seem funny:

"The United Nations is considering using 'flu-casters', modelled on television weather forecasters, to publicise vital information if a global flu pandemic strikes.

They could broadcast latest developments from emergency-response facilities at the UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva, according to David Nabarro, the UN's top influenza coordinator."

were it not for this:

A man showing symptoms of bird flu died in Iraqi Kurdistan and his samples have been sent to Jordan for testing, a Kurdish official said yesterday.

Wouldn't it be ironic if a country with which we would ordinarily have little contact, be the one from which bird flu reaches the USA? And even more ironically--by way of our soldiers?