Next meeting - 11th March - Pandemics

1. What are pandemics - examples: black death, Spanish flu etc
2. Why don't we have more of them?
3. Social and economic consequences of past pandemics
4. The current worry - bird flu
5. Our modern economic vulnerability
6. What society ought to be doing
7. Strategies for reducing personal risk
8. Are pandemics any solution to population problems?

We will ramble over these and other questions, looking at whatever informative websites we have discovered in the meanwhile.