Chief of UN operations controlling the spread of the dreaded avian flu H5N1 Dr. David Nabarro said that the virus fast spreading in Asia, Europe, and Africa is likely to jump the Atlantic from 6 months to a year. He highlighted that many countries and populations are not aware of the disease infecting their poultry population. Since 2003, the flu has so far infected 175 people killing 96 of them. Millions of birds have since been culled to contain the spread of the disease. The virus does not infect humans easily but experts fear that it may mutate and pass on just as easily to humans. Highlighting this fear, experts found one case of a German cat, a mammal, affected with the virus was recently discovered in the Baltic region. News on the bird flu in India has been silent after Government officials stonewalled questions on its origins and claiming success in containing the disease to a couple of districts to Western India. These moves, coupled by shameless exhibitionism by politicians with strong financial interests in poultry, chicken eat fest in cities, lack of public awareness, and more newsworthy incidents like the budget and French and US Presidential visits have shunted these incidents right of all newspapers. While every country has reported the spread of the disease, only India claims to have contained the epidemic.