Captain Chirps Is On Its Way

Here's another of the growing number of voices warning of the impending avian influenza pandemic and what we need to be doing, now, to be prepared for it.

Money passage:

I hope there is never a day when management of corpses tops the list of what is required to maintain public morale, that new, effective vaccinations can be discovered, mass produced and distributed to billions of people in time, and that all that will emerge from this worry is nonsense.

This is what I hope for. But what I know is this: The time to concentrate resources to mitigate the effects of pandemic flu is here and now.

Alarmist? Perhaps. But given the mounting evidence, better to be alarmist too soon than too late.