Culturing the influenza virus to migrate from poultry to humans and then from humans to humans is well under way in our cilvilization. In Indonesia it seems just a matter of time when it (H5N1) becomes a pandemic.There is a lot of information out there in the blogosphere on the theme: a news aggregator about the flu news,a fluwikie and my own collection.

The Decameron Web is a hypermedia archive featuring Boccaccio's medieval texts about the plague and its effects on Europe. Most of the literary texts are available in English or Italian. Fun reading/viewing while chewing some cheap poultry and waiting...