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Personally worried? No, not really. 1- worrying won't help, 2- if it gets to be bad, we'll hear about it, 3- I think it's really being over-hyped.

I'm not particularly a worrier. The thing that's bad about these diseases that jump from an animal to a human is that we have no immunity. It's different enough from the prior viruses that we don't know how to recognize it as an intruder. The vaccine will help that.

My favorite quote was the lead-in to a story about the Bird Flu on the Daily Show- "The Bush White House has been plagued with one piece of bad news after another. Historically, you know what that means- it's nation-scaring time!"

Mostly I feel bad for people in those Asian countries who raise birds and have to kill them all (and of course can't sell them) trying to contain the infection.