"HIGHLY LIKELY" AUSTRALIA ALREADY INFECTED SAYS TOP VACCINE SPECIALIST

From the Melbourne Age :

"Queensland-based medicinal chemist Professor Mark von Itzstein, who has played a key role in efforts to develop a vaccine for the deadly H5N1 strain, said birds migrating from Indonesia could have brought the virus to northern Australia.

"'The fact is Indonesia has now reported cases of bird flu ... and this is about the time of year the birds start to migrate.'

"'There is no magic curtain between Indonesia and Australia and given the expanse of our land it would not be surprising if it was here,' Prof von Itzstein said."