Naturally I've been following the spread of bird flu - haven't most people? However, until the government issues any specific health warnings, I'm not going to do change my habits. Admittedly I don't think I'd go to a Bird Sanctuary anytime soon (and wouldn't anyway since the last time: went with a group of my Mum's school kids - about 80 of them aged 4-7 or something... I had about 5 in my care for the day who my Mum promised me were "sweet and lovely" etc... yeah, right... one of them was scared of birds and I had to drag this poor screaming girl all around a bird farm all day... we had to walk through loose geese and chickens... nightmare... I will never work with children or animals and it has put me off bird farms for life... ) and I will continue to buy organic eggs and poultry. I was therefore rather surprised to see a selection of books in WHSmith with titles such as Beat the Flu: How to Stay Healthy Through the Coming Bird Flu Pandemic. Just pop "bird flu" into an Amazon search to see what I mean. Should we be reading this? Is this scaremongering? Is this an easy way to make a bit of money? Or is it sensible? The questions remains.