http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...irdflu15m.html
"Nationwide, the CDC predicts that in a "medium level" epidemic, as many as 100 million of the nation's 296 million people could be infected and 200,000 could die.
Around the globe, World Health Organization officials have variously estimated from 7 million to 100 million of the world's 6.4 billion people could die, but they say it is impossible to predict accurately.
County and state officials have an established early warning system for the deadly virus. Primary-care physicians are the primary sentinels.
Through repeated newsletters, they have been asked to report patients with flu symptoms who have recently traveled to countries where outbreaks of the disease have been reported: Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. "