According to the Washington post Nov. 2nd 2005, 'President Bush yesterday asked Congress for $7.1 billion to help prepare the country for a global epidemic of influenza, telling a high-powered gathering of scientists and public officials at the National Institutes of Health that "our country has been given fair warning of this danger to our homeland." '
Apparently it was thought that Al Qaeda was somehow going to get a hold of the Bird Flu virus and spread it across the country. What would we do about this? How would we prepare ourselves against this evil Al Qaeda!?!?