FRENCH TOURIST TO TURKEY MAY HAVE CAUGHT BIRD FLU

BBC:

A French woman who recently returned from Turkey is being tested in a Montpellier hospital for possible bird flu, the health ministry has announced. A first test was negative, but the results of further examinations are due later on Sunday, the ministry said. ... Bird flu has hit 26 Turkish provinces. At least four people have died from the deadly H5N1 strain of the disease. ... The 32-year-old French woman went to hospital on Saturday following a stay in the Tarsus region of Turkey, where she had been travelling alone. ... Her case was being treated as potential bird flu because of the "symptoms and because the woman saw dead birds while travelling in a country affected by the epidemic," the ministry said in a statement.

If she caught it then it is very contagious and then the odds are very good that we will have a pandemic. Yipes.