Welcome to Outbreak H5N1.

I finally got tired of reading and listening to the platitudes from governments and ignorant reports from the mainstream media. Meanwhile people are catching avian ifluenza and, for the most part, dying of it.

This blog has five aims:

1) to give the basic background information that will allow the reader to understand the disease and its actual threat;

2) to bring the most reliable information about where the H5N1 outbreak has reached;

3) to seperate panic-mongering from legitimate concern: warning of real chances of infection;

4) to watch out for a cross-over mutation: the point where H5N1 becomes a human spreadable disease;

5) to propose the optimal (in practice) avoidance and counter-measures for individuals and families.