"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Thankfully, there are still few cases of human bird flu, and those still limited to people who have intimate contact with birds. Nonetheless, the epidemic in the bird kingdom has spurred the United States to do what the bioterrorism threat has never managed to spur them to - control of border entry. Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, says it plans to allow only fit and healthy Muslims to attend the Hajj, and China has fast-tracked a flu vaccine for testing in people.