Worrying Always Helps

That's why - thank goodness - we have professional worriers, like Dr. David Nabarro, chief avian flu coordinator for the United Nations. He's the guy who estimated that if the H5N1 virus mutated to become transmissible to humans, we were looking at anywhere from 5 to 150 million deaths. Of course, only the 150 million was quoted. I thought this was an interesting article, made more interesting in that it mostly centers on the (IMO justifiably) "quite scared" Nabarro. In posting it, I was also amused that the International Herald Tribune called it worrier.php as a filename.