Seconded.

I hope viewers and listeners internalize the fact that the virus mutations are unpredictable. It would be a good time to review Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" and understand intersection of poultry and pigs in the development of viruses that can cross species boundaries. We have covered over the role that "pig factories" in Mexico played in the rise of the H1N1, with high speed global transportation there are no geo-political boundaries to infection. The problem is truly worldwide and we need to have the same sanitation standards everywhere, viruses don't need passports to cross the borders. http://www.who.int/topics/influenza/en/ and http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1flu/ are a good resources. We need to remain vigilant: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swine.../en/index.html http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_11_20/en/index.html

Species-jumping viruses is probably the number one under-reported environmental story of our time. Future generations may look back in amazement at how deep our denial runs. People have learned a lot about HIV/AIDS, for example, (treatment, safe sex practices, etc.), but largely ignored how and why the virus jumped from non-human primates to humans.