Is this it? Swine flu is coming.
All schools from kindergarten to university have been closed in Mexico City.
Reuters
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Friday it was calling an emergency committee to advise whether outbreaks of swine flu in humans in the United States and Mexico constituted an international public health threat.
A deadly strain of swine flu never seen before has broken out in Mexico, killing as many as 60 people and raising fears of a possible spread across North America.
Meanwhile, H5N1 bird flu is still out there:
CAIRO, Egypt — A 25-year-old Egyptian woman has died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the 25th reported death from the disease since it broke out in the country in 2006, official news agency MENA reported.
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Drudge has over-reacted (or at least I hope it's an over-reaction).
A swine flu pandemic has the potential to allow mixing of it's H1N1 virus with the bird flu H5N1 to produce a human-to-human form of bird flu.