No news is good news

Filed Under Bird Flu

I notice that the volume of news about bird flu has reduced over the last few days. Although it might be the run up to Easter that is causing this, I rather think that we are in a lull phase at the moment.

The bird flu scare in the UK has subsided - avian flu is no longer on the front pages of the newspapers or much discussed on the news programmes at the moment - and with no further outbreaks reported in other European countries, it is tempting to think, or hope, that the problem is going away.

Well not quite. Russia is reporting cases of avian flu and the thirty third person in Indionesia to be diagnosed with H5N1 has been reported by the authorities.

The threat of bird flu isn’t going away, however maybe there is a glimmer of hope that it can be contained, at least in more developed countries.

Germany and France seem to have contained avian flu successfully and the United States is starting to feel a degree of confidence about its abilities to reduce the impact of the disease, should the H5N1 virus arrive in that country.

Lets hope. Lets see what can be done in the less well developed countries where containing the disease is much more difficult.