Everything every person or community needs to know in surviving the Bird Flu. The word 'Plague' comes down to us from history representing death incarnate. It is a reference to an epidemic disease characterized by its fast movement and unusually high rate of mortality. It's most famous incarnation was the 'Black Death' of the 14th century. The most famous plague of the modern era was the 1918 Spanish Flu. Governments never managed to count all the dead from 1918. Over a three to fourteen month period there might have been as many as 500 million dead world wide. Nothing could stop it. Now its 21st century cousin, The Bird Flu, is migrating throughout the globe. If we discover its human subtype six to nine months before a major outbreak we can keep survival rates high. If not, Bird Flu is far more deadly than its 1918 counterpart.
