February 1, 2007 -- The avian H5N1 influenza strain has all but disappeared from the public consciousness. It no longer makes headlines, and most people have already forgotten all about it, even though H5N1 remains as serious a threat as it ever was. The infection rates for birds are still high, and the virus keeps showing up in new places. To better understand what would happen in the case of a pandemic, a group of researchers has developed a model to study how such a pandemic would spread and what could be done to stop it. We look at the sobering findings...
