Whoa...

Here's a chilling piece from Charles Krauthammer. Here are some snippits, but you should read the whole thing (it's not long). I keep hearing about the Bird Flu. It sounds scary, but it's still hard to believe. But I recall a time when I didn't think a skyscrape could be knocked down, either...

- U.S. scientists have just created a living, killing copy of the 1918 "Spanish" flu
- The Spanish flu has not been seen on this blue planet for 85 years
-...they pulled off a microbiological Jurassic Park: the first-ever resurrection of an ancient pathogen.
- We have brought back to life an agent of near-biblical destruction.
-...its entire genome has also now been published
- ...the 1918 flu was bird flu, "the most bird-like of all mammalian flu viruses," says Jeffery Taubenberger
- We are essentially in a life-or-death race with the bird flu.
- ...resurrection of the virus and publication of its structure open the gates of hell.
-Why try to steal loose nukes in Russia? A nuke can only destroy a city. The flu virus, properly evolved, is potentially a destroyer of civilizations.