Playing chicken with bird flu

News today that the region is woefully ill prepared for a possible outbreak of a more infectious bird flu.
The potential of any outbreak has given the Weasel a few sleepless nights recently, while I doubt that we are in imminent danger of a 1918 style outbreak even a small amount of human to human transmission could practically seize up air travel as countries try to stop the spread, not good news for Dubai.
Risk is high in this part of the world where many people still keep chickens and ornamental birds that possibly could be exposed to the disease being spread by migrating, or in Adu Dhabi, by smuggled birds.
That some greedy bird traders are quite happy to expose the country to risk should not be a surprise I suppose, the souk mentality rarely stretches as far as civic responsibility.