Commentary: Vaccinating migrants could help prevent a flu pandemic

Between 2003 and 2007, the prospect of an ultra-lethal influenza pandemic had public health officials around the world worried. The vast chicken farms of Asia had seen outbreaks of a highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu, and a handful of people had come down with it as well. If the virus evolved to become easily transmitted to humans, experts warned, as many as 350 million people could die.

But chicken flu, fortunately, remained stubbornly chicken flu.

We did get a pandemic, though not an