Is an influenza H5N1 pandemic on its way?

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Influenza H5N1 (also known as the “bird flu”) has been hovering in the wings since 1997 when the media reported human-to-human virus transmission in a Hong Kong wet market. 

In the years that passed, several alarms were raised, like in 2005-06, when the world appeared to be on the verge of a catastrophe. Nothing happened. Investigation of the few deaths …