Any other depressing news you want to share?

Of course! I can tell you lots of depressing things. Bird flu (H5N1, to be exact) can be transmitted among all birds, pigs, ferrets, felines, and humans. In a worst-case scenario, that means little Fluffy might bring back the flu along with that present of a dead sparrow. Also, bird flu is a systemic disease - it doesn't just sit in your lungs to make you cough and sneeze, but also hits your nervous system, your digestive tract, everything. Some people never got the "flu-like symptoms" you always hear about. They just gradually went into a coma.

Now for the good news: there's plenty of things you can do to make sure you don't get bird flu in the first place.