The avian flu may be that next novel strain and it may not be, we just don't know yet. The threat of a pandemic isn't a new one. It's just ratcheted up right now because they're finding this new strain in a few more places.

[That is] something that we're evaluating very carefully to determine whether or not there's anything about this particular flu strain that's preferentially affecting children or causing more severe disease in children, ... We don't know the answer to the question yet. It is common for children to develop severe influenza and for deaths to occur in every flu season, unfortunately, so it will take us some time to figure that out.

That is a whole separate strain,

This is a lot of strain for the neighborhood. We'll see how Buffett goes and go from there.

There's not any timetable yet for him to swing off a tee or swing at balls.

Only birds can be infected. There is no bird flu strain that can be transmitted to humans in Dagestan.