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Not a day goes by now without the media reporting about the bird flu...This problem is serious, and is spreading with no relief in sight.

RBY is going global with it bird/human flu test kits and is currently shipping.

Plenty of $$$$ to be made, with this flu expected to go on for estimated 10 year period.

The media love a death toll, as cruel as it is!

Here is the latest

Bird flu outbreak reported in Ukraine
From correspondents in Kiev
06jan06
AN outbreak of suspected bird flu has been discovered in a village near Simferopol on the Crimean peninsula, Ukrainian television reported overnight.

A large number of fowl have died in Soniatchne village and preliminary analysis confirmed the presence of the virus, local officials told the Kanal 5 television station.

It is not yet known if the latest outbreak is the deadly H5N1 strain which has killed almost 70 people, mainly in east Asia.

The presence of the H5N1 strain was first confirmed in Ukraine's Crimea region in December, after bird flu was first detected in the peninsular's northeastern corner near a migratory site for wild birds.

In the ensuing weeks the virus has spread to more than 15 villages throughout the Black Sea peninsula, authorities have said, and almost 70,000 birds have been culled.

Two children died of bird flu in Turkey earlier this week, the first confirmed deaths from the virus outside of Asia.

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Also note the 6 month chart for RBY looks in great shape. The large spike represents the annoucement of the bird flu test kits, since that time the share price has remained within the 3-5 cent mark. The lows are becoming higher and higher which is a great sign, showing further strength and renewed confidence within RBY.

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The stories just keep on spilling out of the media, here is more breaking news...

Turkey deals with bird flu outbreak
From correspondents in Dogubeyazit
06jan06
OFFICIALS called for calm after confirming this morning that two teenagers from the same family died from bird flu in eastern Turkey, becoming the first known human fatalities of the disease outside East Asia.

It was not yet clear whether the deaths were caused by the H5N1 version of bird flu blamed for the other fatalities, but a spokeswoman in Geneva for the World Health Organization (WHO) said the strain considered highly dangerous to humans was the likely culprit.

If that is the case, the deaths would mark the westward spread of a virus that has killed more than 70 people in Southeast Asia and China since late 2003, nearly 40 of them in 2005 alone.

The Turkish agriculture ministry overnight confirmed at least four new outbreaks of bird flu had been detected in poultry in three provinces in the country's east.

The first victims in Turkey were 14-year-old Muhammed Ali Kocyigit, who died in a hospital in the city of Van on Sunday, followed by his 15-year-old sister, Fatma, at the same hospital overnight, said the physician treating them, Ahmet Faik Oner.

The two siblings had been taken to hospital on Saturday with fever, coughing and bleeding from the mouth after they came into contact with chickens that were slaughtered after showing signs of bird flu.

At least nine other people were under scrutiny for bird flu symptoms, Huseyin Avni Sahin, the chief physician of the Van State Hospital told the CNN-Turk news channel.

One of them is a third Kocyigit child, who is in critical condition and under artificial respiration, he said.

Five other people were on their way to the hospital from the neighbouring province of Agri, as well as two others from the town of Ercis, 150km north of Van, Sahin said.

Despite the increasing number of suspect cases, Turkish Health Minister Recep Akdag ruled out the possibility of an epidemic, but warned that families who lived in close to their poultry risked infection.

"We are not expecting an epidemic in Turkey," Akdag told CNN-Turk, but warned: "There is a risk involved for families and their children who are in close contact with winged animals in unhygienic environments."

Humans can contract bird flu only if they come into contact with infected birds.

Scientists say millions around the world could die if the virus crosses with human strains of flu to become highly contagious.

The Kocyigit family is from the remote town of Dogubeyazit, near Turkey's borders with Iran and Armenia, where many families depend on poultry breeding for their livelihoods and live close to their animals.

Akdag said the family "lived in the same household with infected chickens, which they then consumed."

Amid calls for the public to remain calm, veterinary experts in protective suits and masks began culling birds in Dogubeyazit, searching all households for any animals the locals might try to hide, an AFP photographer said.

However, there were no teams to disinfect vehicles entering or leaving the avian flu zone, the photographer said.

Environment Minister Osman Pepe reimposed a ban on hunting wild fowl in the east of the country, which is on the flight path of migratory birds blamed for the outbreak.

The European Commission said it was closely watching developments and a WHO spokeswoman said they would send a team to the region.

Dogubeyazit is less then 100 km from the town of Aralik, which was quarantined last week after poultry there tested positive for H5.

Officials were still awaiting the results of further tests being conducted in London to determine whether any of the 1,200 birds slaughtered in the village suffered from the H5N1 strain.

Agriculture Minister Mehdi Eker on Thursday confirmed at least four new outbreaks of bird flu in the eastern province of Igdir, where the two victims lived, 250 kilometres further west in Erzurum, and 750 kilometres away in Sanliurfa to the southwest.

A special health ministry team was due to arrive in Van on Thursday to determine what other measures might be taken "to eradicate the disease in the area," an official said.

The first case of H5N1 in the country was uncovered in October at a turkey farm in Kiziksa, a village in the western province of Balikesir abutting a wildlife reserve that is a well-known stopover for migratory birds.

Officials here said on December 9 that they had eradicated the avian flu virus in that region after testing thousands of samples and culling 10,000 birds.

But Jean-Luc Angot, deputy director of the Paris-headquartered World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), said Thursday there were questions about Turkey's measures to curb the disease.

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If you read beyond the constant posts by bird flu stock holders (RBY,BTA etc)you will realize that the media loves a death toll. The media has driven bird flu stocks into frenzied trading over the past 6 months.

The media will drive the hype, that said people are still contracting the flu and dying.

So in real terms the media is just relaying the death toll, the countries affected and the steps in place to control the out-breaks.

Its up to investors to profit from disasters/opportunities that present themselves, today and well into the future.

It is also up to forum members to relay information to other members/investors about the bird flu.

www.rockeby.com

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This must be the kind of news we're waiting for!

This from

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-...coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true

January 6, 2006
latimes.com :
Chicken Firms to Test Every Flock for Bird Flu

WASHINGTON ”” Seeking to reassure people that chicken is safe to eat, companies that raise chickens said Thursday that they would test every flock for bird flu before the birds are slaughtered.

Companies that account for more than 90% of the nearly 10 billion chickens produced in 2005 in the U.S. have signed up for the testing program and said more were expected to follow, according to the National Chicken Council, a trade group that represents producers.

"We just want to assure people of the safety of the food supply," council spokesman Richard Lobb said.

Consumption of chicken in the U.S. has held steady despite worries about a bird flu strain that has infected millions of birds in Asia and parts of Europe and has killed 74 people.

The average person in the U.S. ate 85 pounds of chicken last year, compared with 84 pounds in 2004, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Chicken prices at the grocery store have dropped in recent months, mostly because production is up and exports are down, said David Harvey, a poultry analyst for the department's Economic Research Service.

The council did not say what companies are participating, but Lobb said "practically all the big ones are in it." Among the biggest in the industry are Tyson Foods Inc., Perdue Farms Inc. and Pilgrim's Pride Corp.

Lobb said companies were testing before the voluntary program's start Jan. 16. They will cover the costs; the council said it did not have cost estimates.

The plan is for 11 birds to be tested from each chicken flock, or farm. The council said that the average flock had 55,000 to 60,000 chickens and that there were about 150,000 flocks produced a year. That means more than 1.6 million chickens would be tested.

A consumer group said testing should be required of every company that raises chickens.

"For the industry to step up like this and start the testing program is a very important improvement," said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest. "But it's critical that USDA ensure that all chicken producers are complying with the same requirements."

The virulent form of bird flu in Asia has not been found in the U.S. and is only now spreading into Eastern Europe. Health officials in the U.S. say it is safe to eat poultry that is properly handled and cooked.

Let's just hope they order their test kits from RBY

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Town panics over bird flu

From correspondents in Dogubeyazit
06jan06
ANXIOUS residents of the remote eastern Turkish town of Dogubeyazit have thronged the local hospital, fearful of having caught bird flu as the deadly disease took its third victim from their impoverished community.

Long queues formed in the corridors of the dilapidated looking hospital the town of some 40,000 people lying some 35km from the Iranian border and some 15km from Mount Ararat, the supposed resting place of Noah's Ark.

"I ate chicken four days ago and I now feel very sick," Ozlem Ates, a teenager about 15 years of age, said in between bouts of vomiting.

"I fear I have bird flu," she said before being taken away by staff for a check.

Three Dogubeyazit children from the same family have so far died from bird flu, becoming the first known human fatalities outside Southeast Asia and China where the disease has killed more than 70 people since late 2003, nearly 40 of them in 2005 alone.

The first victim was 14-year-old Muhammed Ali who died in hospital in the eastern city of Van on Sunday. His 15-year-old sister, Fatma, perished yesterday, followed by 11-year-old Hulya.

The children had been hospitalised last week after coming into close contact and eating chicken that had fallen sick. According to press reports, the children played with the heads of dead chicken.

Eating infected chicken once it is cooked does not pose a risk of transmission. Almost all the human cases of bird flu have been in people who have made contact with the virus through the birds' saliva, secretions and pulverised faeces.

Dogubeyazit is a town where many families depend on poultry breeding for their livelihoods and live closely with their birds, sometimes in the same room, making it harder to contain the spread of the virus.

Veterinary experts have been culling birds since the onset of the threat, aided by some residents who voluntarily handed over their animals, while officials have been disinfecting the tyres of cars coming in and out of the area.

But due to extreme poverty, many have chosen to eat their sick animals rather than bury them in lime pits.

Several residents said Turkish authorities had failed to properly inform the Kurdish-speaking community on what bird flu is and how it spreads to humans, charging that that health officials refused to answer their questions.

"Do you know what we can do against bird flu?," three students from a vocational medical school asked an AFP photographer on the mud-covered streets of the town where donkeys compete for space with motorised vehicles.

"People are trying to learn what is going on from television, but most do not know Turkish fluently, they speak only Kurdish," said a high school student who only identified himself as Erhan.

Some, meanwhile, appeared to have taken official warnings to heart. "I do not eat poultry, I stay away from poultry and I do not let passengers with live poultry in their hands into my car," 30-year-old taxi driver Hakan Capan said.

Others took a more fatalistic aproach to the threat.

Nuri Akatar, a 35-year-old self-employed father of eight, said two of his children fell sick after his wife cut up sick poultry and cooked them, but underlined that he was sure it was not bird flu.

"We went to the doctor who said we were not in danger. If something happens to a member of my family, there is nothing I can do, I will leave it up to Allah," he told AFP.

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Note in the following article below that the people of Turkey are blaming the government for failing its people in the spread of bird flu. Governments cannot sit on their hands, they need to educate themselves, their people. Stock pile test kits and drugs to prevent the spread of this disease.



Bird flu kills third child in Turkey
By Mustafa Ozer in Dogubeyazit
07jan06

A THIRD child from the same family died of bird flu in eastern Turkey, officials said, as the World Health Organisation sought to allay panic over the spread of a deadly disease now at the gates of Europe.

The deaths triggered accusations that the Government had failed to prevent the virus spreading, but Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted authorities had not delayed taking the necessary action.

The latest victim, 11-year-old Hulya Kocyigit, died overnight in hospital in the eastern city of Van after spending several days in intensive care, said Huseyin Avni Sahin, the chief doctor.

Her death came one day after her 15-year-old sister Fatma succumbed to the disease in the same hospital.

Their 14-year-old brother, Muhammet Ali, died on Sunday, becoming the first known human casualty of bird flu outside Southeast Asia and China where it has killed more than 70 people since 2003, nearly 40 of them last year alone.
Sahin said that 26 other people, including a fourth member of the Kocyigit family, were being treated in the hospital for bird-flu symptoms, adding that one was in a "critical condition".

The disease has been "contained in one province" in the east of Turkey and "there is no need for excessive panic," WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said in Geneva.

She said a team of five WHO experts were arriving in Van to help officials take the right measures to prevent any spread.
Those experts "will also try to see if we are faced with the first case of human-to-human transmission, which would be the start of a flu epidemic," she added.

It was not confirmed whether the deaths in Turkey were caused by the H5N1 strain of bird flu blamed for the other fatalities, but WHO said on Thursday that it was the likely culprit.

Tests are currently underway in Britain.
Humans only contract bird flu if they come into close contact with infected birds, but scientists fear millions of people around the world could die if the virus crosses with human flu strains to become highly contagious.

The Kocyigit family comes from the impoverished remote town of Dogubeyazit where many families depend on poultry breeding for their livelihoods and live close to the animals, making it harder to contain any spread.

The Kocyigit children were hospitalised last week after coming into contact with ill chickens living in their house.

The children's uncle Hasan Kocyigit told the Anatolia news agency that the children had cut and eaten a sick chicken themselves, thus exposing themselve to infection.

Press reports say the siblings may have played with its head.
Meanwhile many Dogubeyazit residents thronged the local hospital, afraid of having caught bird flu, and others accused authorities of failing to properly inform them.

"I ate chicken four days ago and I now feel very sick," said Ozlem Ates, a teenager about 15 years of age, in between bouts of vomiting in the corridors of the town's dilapidated looking hospital. "I fear I have bird flu."
The Turkish press was angry, accusing the Government of not acting quickly enough. "Who will acount for this?" asked the mass circulation Hurriyet.
"The health ministry says there is no delay," Erdogan said in Ankara. "All the relevant ministries are taking the necessary precautions".

Dogubeyazit is less then 100km from the town of Aralik, which was quarantined last week after poultry tested positive for H5 bird flu.
As veterinary experts culled poultry and disinfected the areas, Agriculture Minister Mehdi Eker confirmed Thursday at least four new outbreaks of bird flu in poultry in the eastern provinces of Igdir and Erzurum, and the southeastern province of Sanliurfa.

The first case of H5N1 in birds in the country was reported in October at a turkey farm in Kiziksa, a village in the western province of Balikesir.
Officials announced on December 9 that they had eradicated the disease.

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In the respect to global Airport security/safety, the very same technology used to detect the SARS virus is also being used as we speak to detect possible outbreaks of the bird flu.

Airport staff are monitoring passenger’s temperatures with thermal video cameras. Pointing them directly down the arrival corridors. They have also erected signs at many major airports that they are monitoring passengers body temperature as a Bird Flu precaution.

This is where RBY’s bird flu test kit would be a major advantage!

Any passengers with high thermal temperatures should be taken aside and given a rapid bird flu test taking only 10 minutes using RBY’s test kit. No need for passengers to be quarantined for days waiting for lab results.

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I have Krisbarry being shrill with these very same articles on another Forum. I believe there is a concerted effort to create immense fear in order to create a community outcry thus controlling the government action over bird 'flu.

I will underline some important sections in this article, please take the time to read them.

Then ask yourself what is this person really up to?

silenthree said:

Town panics over bird flu

From correspondents in Dogubeyazit
06jan06
ANXIOUS residents of the remote eastern Turkish town of Dogubeyazit have thronged the local hospital, fearful of having caught bird flu as the deadly disease took its third victim from their impoverished community.

Long queues formed in the corridors of the dilapidated looking hospital the town of some 40,000 people lying some 35km from the Iranian border and some 15km from Mount Ararat, the supposed resting place of Noah's Ark.

"I ate chicken four days ago and I now feel very sick," Ozlem Ates, a teenager about 15 years of age, said in between bouts of vomiting.

"I fear I have bird flu," she said before being taken away by staff for a check.

Three Dogubeyazit children from the same family have so far died from bird flu, becoming the first known human fatalities outside Southeast Asia and China where the disease has killed more than 70 people since late 2003, nearly 40 of them in 2005 alone.

The first victim was 14-year-old Muhammed Ali who died in hospital in the eastern city of Van on Sunday. His 15-year-old sister, Fatma, perished yesterday, followed by 11-year-old Hulya.

The children had been hospitalised last week after coming into close contact and eating chicken that had fallen sick. According to press reports, the children played with the heads of dead chicken.

Eating infected chicken once it is cooked does not pose a risk of transmission. Almost all the human cases of bird flu have been in people who have made contact with the virus through the birds' saliva, secretions and pulverised faeces.

Dogubeyazit is a town where many families depend on poultry breeding for their livelihoods and live closely with their birds, sometimes in the same room, making it harder to contain the spread of the virus.

Veterinary experts have been culling birds since the onset of the threat, aided by some residents who voluntarily handed over their animals, while officials have been disinfecting the tyres of cars coming in and out of the area.

But due to extreme poverty, many have chosen to eat their sick animals rather than bury them in lime pits.

Several residents said Turkish authorities had failed to properly inform the Kurdish-speaking community on what bird flu is and how it spreads to humans, charging that that health officials refused to answer their questions.

"Do you know what we can do against bird flu?," three students from a vocational medical school asked an AFP photographer on the mud-covered streets of the town where donkeys compete for space with motorised vehicles.

"People are trying to learn what is going on from television, but most do not know Turkish fluently, they speak only Kurdish," said a high school student who only identified himself as Erhan.

Some, meanwhile, appeared to have taken official warnings to heart. "I do not eat poultry, I stay away from poultry and I do not let passengers with live poultry in their hands into my car," 30-year-old taxi driver Hakan Capan said.

Others took a more fatalistic aproach to the threat.

Nuri Akatar, a 35-year-old self-employed father of eight, said two of his children fell sick after his wife cut up sick poultry and cooked them, but underlined that he was sure it was not bird flu.

"We went to the doctor who said we were not in danger. If something happens to a member of my family, there is nothing I can do, I will leave it up to Allah," he told AFP.

Click to expand...

You will note it says once chicken is cooked it offers no threat.
Warning.. do not live with chickens inside your house.
Warning...do not let children play with uncooked chicken carcasses.

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The media is doing a fantastic job with regards to fear, that is what they do best.

In another previous post check the article relating to chicken firms testing

WASHINGTON ”” Seeking to reassure people that chicken is safe to eat, companies that raise chickens said Thursday that they would test every flock for bird flu before the birds are slaughtered.

Hence the need for a rapid test kits

My point is just as valid, fear is gripping the world via the media and poultry producers are worried of their livelyhoods as people take chicken off the menu.

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Ummm... and isn't it the responsibility of wealthy countries to supply aid/welfare to the poor countries to help tackle the spread of this disease?

WHO reccommended this!

Australia was mentioned recently as one of the wealthy countires to supply aid to the Asian region.

Hence profit will flow from wealthy countries(governments) into stocks that supply products to combat the bird flu.

In times of fear many profit, we only need a war to give us plenty of examples of how others profit.

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He is going around the forums saying and doing the same thing. He is spamming and doing something that feels as though it should be illegal......

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I have no idea why he does it... twisting any little bit of bizarre information into an overt ramp Is his intention to be completely and utterly p!ss off would be investors?? makes me not want to touch this stock....

interesting flagish chart atm though.. i would love to go back and get the VWAP on all those trading days when it spiked on news and fell back.. at a guess i'd say they'd all be around the 4.8 mark. Needs something amazing to get it through the high 4's you will need to ramp harder to get it through that kris!

if i had got caught out with this stock through lack of discipline best bet would be to sell quickly on next news and move on, and not worry if you don't get your money back there's always something else! then come back in if it ever looks like breaking and holding above 5c... your not going to be able to ramp it thier!

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I just heard they have co-incided all this scaremongering with a television report about the bird 'flu report thing in Turkey...

The announcer made a sick joke about them 'flocking' to the hospital....

Hey, this is a joke Joyce. Everyone start laughing.

Excuse me if I just sit here annoyed at this manipulation.

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There has been some interest today, probably relates to the deaths in Turkey. Volume 20M so far today and price up .006 to 4.6c.

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Hi Bingo,

As P. T. Barnum never did say
"There's a Sucker Born Every Minute"

It was actually a banker named David Hannum who said it but what the heck it is true!

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Here is a bit more info for everyone, which you may find interesting...

Dr Sze Wee Tan the Managing Director of RBY appears to be a member of the Parliament of Singapore.

http://www.parliament.gov.sg/Parliament Members/Htdocs/PM-whomp-memcv-tanszewee.html

Here is an article which contains another picture of him...

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/pictures/SIN105D.htm

...and this is him asking a question in Parliament..

Achieve better risk management against communicable disease outbreaks
Parliament Sitting Date: 18 Apr 2005 / Question No: 76
Question By: Dr Tan Sze Wee, Nominated Member of Parliament

http://www.moh.gov.sg/corp/about/newsroom/parliamentary/details.do?tid=PQ7618apr2005


Also the lovely Krisbarry informed me on another forum that CYN another Singapore company who is involved with stem cell research, is in on the act now, probably trying to help their falling stock price. They are going to 'distribute' the wee test for sick chooks. What a beat up.

Anyway here is a picture of RBY's Managing Director in a photo op.

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I decided to read through the RBY notices today from when they listed. Very interesting.

I see they listed [19/12/2003]at about the same time as the "fear of bird flu" started to hit the headlines.

They actually don't manufacture these tests. Now that CYN is in on the act I guess RBY aren't actually distributing them either....what is RBY's interest....well not much perhaps, except their name is on the packaging.

Another interesting thing I found out. At one stage Thorney holdings were a substantial holder with 7%.

Queensand Investment Corporation were also substantial holders.

Strangely enough both of these substantial shareholders dumped their holdings around the time this crowd started to yell bird flu tests.

Queensland Inv. gave notice on the 18th April 05 that they had dumped their shares. Around that time of selling they at most would have got 037c. As best as I can see they paid 5c ps share on the way in on the 14 Sept 2004

Thorney went in about the same 5c level I believe they dumped their holding on the 5/8/05 around that time the price was .015c......However I wouldn't be surprised if someone from the company did a deal with Mr Pratt. He probably got most of his dough back. Just guessing of course.

Didn't they want to be associated with RBY any more?

Didn't they think it was a good investment anymore?

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By the way I forgot to mention that around 28 million shares and options were released from escrow on the 23rd December 2005.

I suppose those shares are now looking for a home to go to perhaps?

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On the idiot box tonight I see there is a program screening that might be of interest to a few people holding shares in RBY


SBS 8.30 pm, SUPER FLU-RACE AGAINST A KILLER

To most of us, the flu is a yearly ritual of misery, nothing more. But now there is a flu that is potentially more deadly than anything the world has ever seen. It is a disease that could kill the young and healthy in astounding numbers - a virus as terrifying as the most deadly plagues known to man.
According to scientists this new, deadly flu is just an evolutionary tick away from becoming highly contagious.

In 1997 a mysterious new virus spread like wildfire through the live chicken markets of Hong Kong, and it was killing poultry with alarming speed. Then, to the shock of scientists, the virus jumped directly from birds to humans - something that had never happened before and has chilling implications. Virus hunters attempted to get the outbreak under control by slaughtering every chicken in Hong Kong.

Shortly after, in 2003 a new strain of the virus ripped through poultry farms across South East Asia where it has now killed over sixty people.

Super Flu - Race Against A Killer looks into the future to see what would happen if a pandemic on the scale predicted were to happen today: millions of deaths worldwide, hospitals overwhelmed, panic and social upheaval; the economy and normal functions of society brought to a standstill.

(Commisioned by SBS Independent, in English)