US health leader warns of human-to-human H7N9 bird flu

http://www.france24.com/en/20130428-us-health-leader-warns-human-human-h7n9-bird-flu

The next pandemic? The Spanish Flu Influenza killed 50 to 100 million people in the 1918 outbreak and it only had a mortality rate of 2%. H7N9 arrives with a mortality rate of 20%. Scientists are already calling the virus one of the most lethal ever seen. The consequences for the human race of human-to-human transmission and further mutations of the virus are ‘unthinkable.’