Natural selection at its finest.

Looks like some more deaths are in front of the human race. According to this article, a new disease, known as H5N1 bird flu virus may outbreak among the human population, causing a possible 150 million deaths. This "pandemic" as it is called is estimated to kill one in every two people it even comes into contact with. Since 2003, it has killed 66 Asian men, all of whom came into contact with the infect birds, the carriers of this disease. As of now, Dr. David Nabarro of World Health Organization suggested to spend 4 billion dollars to make a vaccine, however, it is still being debated in the House of representatives, who believe that this has not become a threat "yet."

This is somewhat reminiscent of the West Nile scare a few years back. That time, the carrier was the pesky mosquito. Of course, that did not turn out as badly as predicted. It had only affected those who were very young, very old, or were already suffering from an immunity deficiently. It was probably blown far out of proportions. The question is now though, is the same thing happening here? Or are we really in for the plague of the new millennium?

Mmm...Procrastination at it's finest.