So THIS isn't such a retarded thing to be worried about. I find it easy to blow off such apparent speculative forms of media flatulence. After all, they have to fill the airtime and what is there to talk about with no hurricane around?
All that aside, genetic shift of the proteins on the outside of a influenza virus is a very possible and likely occurrence; and history tells us the 'big one' hits about every hundred years. So the idea of a huge bird flu in Asia 'shifting' and becoming transmissible from human-to-human contact is actually a plausible and scary probability. If this happens we could be looking at virus that can infect anyone (flu vaccine or not), and may kill up to 50% of those infected, with little concern for the previous health or age of the individual.
Conclusion: invest in fashion sensible face masks with matching latex gloves.
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