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10/06/2005:

"Security fears as flu virus that killed 50 million is recreated"

Scientists have recreated the 1918 Spanish flu virus, one of the deadliest ever to emerge, to the alarm of many researchers who fear it presents a serious security risk.

Undisclosed quantities of the virus are being held in a high-security government laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia, after a nine-year effort to rebuild the agent that swept the globe in record time and claimed the lives of an estimated 50 million people.

The genetic sequence is also being made available to scientists online, a move which some fear adds a further risk of the virus being created in other labs.
guardian.co.uk

A researcher interviewed on NPR talked about the "eerie parallels" between the 1918 influenza and bird flu. I don't know what the heck is going on, but not so eerie, I'm afraid...