CATCHING UP

OK, here's a bunch of stuff that's been piling up while I've been busy being lazy...

We'll start with the inevitable update on the bird flu: "China has sealed off nature reserves and rushed more than 3 million doses of bird flu vaccine to a remote western province after migratory birds were found dead from the H5N1 strain, which can be fatal to humans. The WHO said last week the spate of human bird flu cases in Vietnam this year suggested the deadly form of the virus may be mutating in ways that are making it more capable of being passed between humans."

If only there were something we could do to stop it... you know, I mean something that wasn't inconvenient.