Quick Guide: Bird fluScientists fear a global epidemic of deadly flu in humans will strike soon as this tends to happen three or four times a century.
Bird flu is the most likely trigger and one virus that causes it - H5N1 - is giving particular alarm.
Highly contagious and deadly in birds - and spread by them - this virus has also killed dozens of people since re-emerging in SE Asia in 2003.
Experts think it is only a matter of time before the virus changes and develops the ability to spread easily among humans.
This nifty little guide is courtesy of the BBC. Print it, cut it out, and carry it with you as you go about your day of denial and jocularity.
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