The rising number of cases and deaths indicates that something may have happened to that system whereby some breeding places have gone unnoticed and therefore uncontrolled,

That's because we looked at what happened in the 1918 pandemic. That caused the greatest number of deaths ever recorded from an infectious disease in a single year, by far. More than the black plague, more than any other infectious disease,

It wouldn't have happened without Elrod.

The system is in place whereby if an umpire cries off, or both as was the case here, those umpires are to be replaced,

Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay

The latest deaths indicate that H5N1 is a particularly virulent pathogen, as we have seen in cases in other countries.