Since around three pandemics occur each century, it is inevitable that a next one will appear. But will it be of the H5 bird type?
Research over the past year suggests not. It is comforting to know that this flu is a greater danger to birds than to people, unless you spend a lot of time with infected birds. So as the media dramatically report the movement of H5 flu in birds, this seems to be more of ornithological interest than human-medical.