[FEL-L] Re: Avian influenza: An emerging feline threat?

[Tim Stoffel]

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 00:28 -0400, Ray wrote:

> 
> "Bird flu" in its current incarnation has been around since 2003. I think 
> the media is disappointed it hasn't become the horror it was hoped. It would 
> have given governments so much power against animal owners...
> 
> Not that they need any more.

Ray,
    Have you been reading your 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'?
CDC is still convinced we will have a pandemic. If you read this
publication a lot, you will realize what they now call an 'outbreak' or
'epidemic' of a disease would have hardly been noticed 20 years ago.
    We do keep an eye out for dead birds around the zoo.

Tim Stoffel