MORE ON AVIAN FLU PREPAREDNESS, from Henry Miller.

See also my TCS column on what we’ve learned from avian flu already.

UPDATE: Lou Minatti emails with what he says is unreported good news: “There is very good news about avian influenza. It is far more widespread than previously thought, and few people infected by it are killed.” Here’s his post on the subject. I hope he’s right, but I still think we need to prepare for the possibility that he’s wrong. Most of the preparation, after all, will be equally useful in the face of other disease outbreaks.