Commentary: Is the Sky Falling?

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Even the publicity folks at Disney couldn't have planned it better.

Just a month before the studio released its animated film Chicken Little, scientists announced the 1918 influenza outbreak - perhaps history's greatest epidemic - was a form of bird flu. And immediately, cries of The sky is falling! commenced.

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Commentary: Is the Sky Falling?

The media was saturated with images of poultry. Pundits opined about potential new strains of influenza created by the co-mingling of human and avian viruses. Could this...

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