Stay Vigilant, Bird Flu Could Spark Next Global Outbreak, Urges Expert

September 6, 2010 by legitgov

Pimping their new pandemic: Stay Vigilant, Bird Flu Could Spark Next Global Outbreak, Urges Expert 05 Sep 2010 Robert Webster, an influenza expert, says health authorities worldwide need to remain watchful for possible influenza outbreaks, despite swine flu being much less deadly than people had originally feared. Webster, chairman of the virology and molecular biology department at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, says that bird flu remains a possible threat and could be the cause of the next global outbreak... Some prestigious medical journals, as well as leading experts expressed concern that billions of dollars of public money was wasted, with not much achieved except for the pharmaceutical industry's profits.