by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:

Have you heard about what is going on in Cambodia?  If officials confirm that the H5N1 strain of the bird flu really is spreading from human to human there, it is likely to set off a wave of panic all over the globe.  And if human to human transmission were to start happening in multiple countries, we would have a real nightmare on our hands.  We just went through a pandemic that had a very low death rate, but it still paralyzed much of the world for an extended period of time.  So how would global authorities react if a disease that has a death rate of more than 50 percent in humans starts spreading like wildfire?