The Birds are coming! The birds are coming!

The BBC wants us to know why we're not all dead from bird flu yet. The reason for the distinct lack of human deaths and massive epidemics is because the avian flu can't effectively spread to humans, which is sort of like saying that the ground is not wet because it's dry. But the reason for that is that it can't thrive in human lungs very well.

So: tonight the important news isn't, in fact, "OMG teh bird flu! we all die!! o noes!!111one". Now it's "Huh, look at that! We're not dropping like flies! Wowies!"