Bird Flu

I'm beginning to get nervous about going to Ukraine for reasons other than before. I thought all I had to worry about was not getting in a plane crash, losing luggage, living in a new country for almost 4 weeks, new food, not knowing the language, and diarrhea. But now I find out that I have to worry about bird flu too. That is just my luck. The first time I ever decide to fly across an ocean, I have to go to a country where they have a disease that could mutate and become a pandemic killing millions of people. So now I don't just have to worry about dying in a plane crash, something highly unlikely, but I have to worry about dying from a crappy virus. This is just awful. Too bad there isn't a vaccine yet. And apparantly there have been cases in Ukrainian birds having this virus since September, but they pretty much just started to deal with the problem, and then they hired the Ukrainian chief veterinarian. That's reassuring.