Politics: Bird Flu into the Cuckoo's Nest

The big news this morning, here in Britain, is that Avian Flu has been detected in France, Germany, and Switzerland. This morning the French are going to begin to innoculate millions of ducks and geese in the south of that country.



The great danger of this epidemic is that the virus can infect humans. This is very often fatal.

Here in Britain, where the answer to any and all animal epidemics seems to be mass slaughter, the experts and government ministers are sending out the message that we should not worry. I won't. But then I have Leukaemia.

The world is a dangerous place. Natural and man-made disasters occur all the time. The possibility for total annialation is constant. Epidemics, meteors crashing to earth, global warming, global dimming, viral mutations, genocidal wars, global economic crashes, reality television...there is no end to potential world-wide catastrophies. So I won't worry...but I think I'll give KFC a miss just in case.