Is it just me, or is bird flu (queue the spooky music) getting a lot more press than it should? Yeah, I know the comparisons to Spanish flu of 1918. But any pandemic that's vicious and fast spreading tends to burn out rather quickly - those suceptible die, those that aren't, survive. Either that, or everyone freaks out, buttons up inside their house, and it fizzles out.

Maybe it's just that this strain is more "democratic" in those that it debilitates?