North American H5N1 Outbreaks: Declared 'weak'

Ok, so the stuff in Manitoba is not the deadly stuff of Asia, but a simpler, less deadly Canadian strain. Which means, it has no chance of mutating and even if it did - hey, it's Canadian... how much damage could it possibly do, eh?

So what else is going on? More Chinese outbreaks and their harebrained scheme to vaccine all chickens. Fucking ridiculous, impossible show of Nationalist fervor. Why not just stockpile anti-virals and develop your own H5N1 vaccine for humans, China? That would be the proper thing to do, a very real and possible-to-achieve victory against that age old War on Disease that humanity fights...