SciAm on the Upcoming Flu Pandemic

Via Slashdot: This month's Scientific American has an article on Preparing for a Pandemic:

The threat of a flu pandemic is more ominous, and its parallels to Katrina more apt, than it might first seem. The routine seasonal upsurges of flu and of hurricanes engender a familiarity that easily leads to complacency and inadequate preparations for the "big one" that experts admonish is sure to come.