Australia Takes A Mock Run At the Bird Flu

They running a drill down under to see how they do if the Bird Flu arrives by migratory birds.

Under a worst-case scenario, people aged under 40 years were the most likely to be affected, with up to 35,000 deaths in the state and up to 15 percent of the state's workforce likely to be absent for up to eight weeks due to illness and school closures.

Absence form work for up to eight weeks almost seems to optimistic to me. But even if that's it, think about how crippling that will be to infrastructure.