Is there any good news?

Maybe Pat Robertson was right, maybe the end of the world is coming.

BANGKOK, Thailand - The likelihood of a human flu pandemic is very high, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt warned Monday as he sought Southeast Asian cooperation to combat the spread of bird flu. . .

While there have been no known cases of person-to-person transmission, World Health Organization officials and other experts have been warning that the virus could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people. In a worst-case scenario, millions could die.

Maybe, just maybe, the lessons of Katrina will cause our government to shift into high gear to respond to this threat. But from what I have read and heard, the problem is we just don't have the infrastructure to create vaccine at a rate that would really make any significant difference. If that is true and the pandemic materializes, it will signal a failure of government of historic proportions.