mindpixel's Journal: Nature: Warnings of a Flu Pandemic

"Millions of people killed in highly developed countries within months. Tens of millions worldwide. The global economy in tatters. A Hollywood fantasy? No -- it's now a plausible scenario. The first act, the spread of avian flu to, and probably between, humans, has already started across Asia..."

This is from the opening of a very scary editorial in today's issue of Nature. In acknowledgement of the potential danger, the magazine has made freely available its normally restricted content.