I could be eating CROW after this, if this news is not just another farce, or created episode. I hope the crow isn't infected with H5N1 virus!!

Thailand has just reported, after I posted the above about the threat being over for this year based on migrations of birds, that the H5N1 bird flu virus has infected a family there.

One family all got it, and some died. This could indicate human-to-human transmission, meaning a genetic change has occured in the virus.

There have not been any further infections reported from Thialand, now about 5 days after that family got hit. That indicates that it isn't the start of a pandemic, or even a local outbreak. It might indicate that this family was infected by someone, on purpose, to keep the fears of bird flu alive.

The motivations are evident - a few people like Rumsfeld will make a lot of money from Tamiflu. Vaccines against it are profitable too. Maybe it is just propagandist preparation for when they release the man-made pandemic virus upon the human race, so they wil have an excuse, and so the general public may believe it is the naturally occuring virus we have been watching recently.