You've seen movies that start with happy scenes of innocent frivolity and then the camera pulls back to reveal a menace lurking in the shadows that only the audience can see. The people on screen go about their routines blissfully unaware, until KAPOW! the menace strikes. I sometimes wonder if we're the unmindful characters and the avian flu is the lurking menace. Oh, there are warnings, and all the right people seem to be noticing, but is a major pandemic really on your schedule for next flu season? I've checked and it's not on mine.
I guess it's good news then that pharmaceutical giant Roche donated 3 million doses of flu fighting anti-viral oseltamivir to the World Health Organization. That way the organization is ready to fight avian flu whever it shows up and hopefully nip any pandemic in the bud.
